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STATE AGEICULTURAL SOCIETY 
Chats worth, of the daily cost of running a factory capable of 
using fifty tons of beets per day : 
Beets, fifty tons.$200 00 
Coal, twenty tons. 80 00 
Labor of one hundred. 100 00 
Grease, tallow, &c... 4 00 
Lights. 2 00 
Shovels, brooms, &c. 1 65 
Lime.... ^ 8 00 
Acids. 9 00 
Loss on bone-black, 250 pounds. 10 00 
Belting.. 2 00 
Filtering-cloths. 3 00 
Rubber, lead, hemp, &c., for packing. 1 26 
Changing, repairing, &c. 10 00 
Stationery, &c., in office. 2 00 
Coke. 1 00 
Sinking fund for wear, &c. 66 60 
Interest on capital. 66 00 
Salaries. 20 00 
Insurance. 20 00 
Barrels. 20 00 
Incidentals. 26 00 
% . 
652 00 
“ Fifty tons of beets will yield at least ten per cent, of 
boiled juice and the product will be as follows : 
Coffee-sugar (A,) 4,000 pounds, at 15 cents.$600 00 
Coffee-sugar (0,) 1,030 pounds, at 13 cents. 130 00 
Yellow sugar, 600 pounds, at 11 cents. 65 00 
Molasses, 8,000 pounds, at 2 cents. 60 00 
Pulp for feeding.... .... 15 00 
Total income. 860 00 
Expenses. 625 00 
Net profit daily. 208 00 
“ Mr. Wiferling stated that tests had proved the soil of Fond 
du Lac to be free from the salts, &c., which have prevented 
the granulation of sugar at other points. 
“ At a subsequent meeting, S. D. Carpenter gave the follow¬ 
ing estimate of the cost of establishing a factory capable of 
