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STATE AGKICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 
proper adjustment of which presents so many difficulties to the 
statesman. 
PRESENT CONDITION OF THE BEET-SUGAR INDUSTRY. 
Since the establishment of the beet-sugar industry in 1812, 
it has spread very rapidly over all continental Europe, and at 
the present time in most of those coantries is placed on a per¬ 
manent and secure footing. It is to be found in Austria, Eus- 
sia, Prussia, Germany, Belgium, and Holland, and its intro¬ 
duction into England is seriously discussed. This shows a 
remarkable change of feeling in that country in regard to this 
industry, for no other nation was so strongly opposed to the 
introduction of the manufacture of sugar into France as Eng¬ 
land, or contributed so much to defeat this object, and bring 
* this industry, then in its infancy, into ridicule. 
It is proposed to give a brief account of the present condi¬ 
tion of this industry in the different countries of Europe, and 
to enumerate some of the benefits which have resulted from 
it s introduction. 
We will commence with France,'for in that country the 
manufacture of beet sugar is carried on more scientifically and 
successfully than in any other part of Europe. 
France .—Although the discovery of the existence of a 
crystallizable sugar in the beet is due to Prussian invention 
and intellect, yet the successful application of the discovery is 
due to the genius and perseverance of French manufacturers, 
stimulated by the assistance and approval of the government, 
and by that feeling of patriotic pride which finds its expression 
in the workshop as well as in the battalion. The varied for. 
tunes which beset this new industry have been already 
noticed. It had spread since its foundation to many places in 
France, and in 1836 was to be found in active operation in 
thirty-seven departments, the number of faetories being 486, 
although the production did not exceed 40,000,000 kilograms. 
The law of 1837 by which a duty of fifteen francs per one 
hundred kilograms was imposed upon indigenous sugar, caused 
