
          In the Southern Sates [States] of the Union every attempt
must fail, because in my opinion the climate is not suited
for the cultivation of the root. In the Eastern States the
manufacture of the sugar may not in all places pay well,
where besides teh high wages, the ground and fuel are dear.
But in the Western States where th price of the sugar is about
one cent more than in the large commercial cities, where
the ground and also fuel do not cost much, and where
the workman's living is cheap,there the manufacture of the 
beet-root sugar ought to pay well, and to cause villages
and towns to spring up, provided there are no great hindrances
to raise healthy, durable, and sugar-yielding
roots.

Although it is generally taken for granted that the beet-root
likes a moist and moderate fruitful soil, still
the soil of my native place belongs to the most humus rich
heavy sandy clay ground. We gathered on an average of
300 [?] per acre; and notwithstanding that the common
weight of the root is from 2 to 5 pounds, yet it was
not seldom that there were quite healthy and solid (not hollow)
rootsfrom 10 to 15 pounds, [?] kept through the
winter and [?] rich [?] stuff as the smaller ones.
We have ground of the same composition often in the 
western states. Why did the attempts made fail? Was
it that the ground was too rich, so that the beet-roots were
comparitively too large, hollow, and therefore became less
yielding and less durable; yet if so, they could have
impaired the productiveness of the soil.

Is the change between the temperature of the cool spring
to the hot summer too rapid; the heat and often lasting
dryness of the latter too long, and hence comes the incomplete
development of the sugar stuff in the root; the
        