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from beets, in 1861, by the improvement in machinery, the manufacturers 
were enabled to obtain six and a-half per cent., and in 1866 they succeeded 
in obtaining seven and a-half per cent. The pure sugar obtained from these 
beets equaled, in 1861, 27,058,850 pounds ; in 1861, 115,059,636 pounds; in 
1866, 168,109,887 pounds. At an average value of thirty florins per centner, 
the amount realized from the last campaign equals 36,407,000 florins ; or if 
we take the Austrian florin at its present value, and reduce the quantity to 
American measures, the sugar will be worth |9 75 in gold per hundredweight, 
and the whole yield will be worth, in gold,^|14,662,800.” 
Russia and Holland .—The present production of sugar in 
Russia, including Poland, is from one hundred and fifteen to 
one hundred and twenty millions of kilograms annually. 
This country is destined to become one of the most im¬ 
portant sugar-producing countries in Europe. The soil, which 
is a rich dark loam, produces excellent beets without manure, 
and is acknowledged to be the best for that purpose in 
Europe. The number of kilograms of beets per acre is gen¬ 
erally very small, (twenty thousand,) but the richness of the 
beet is remarkable, nine and frequently ten per cent, of sugar 
being obtained. The number of factories in Russia at the 
present time is four hundred and forty, pnost of them, how¬ 
ever, being of small size. ■ 
In Holland, into which the beet has been recently intro¬ 
duced, the cultivation and manufacture appear in the most 
flourishing condition. This is owing to the fertility of the 
soil, in which the beet grows to its full size, and retains at the 
same time its full saccharine properties. 
The present production of sugar in Holland is about seventy- 
five thousand kilograms. The number of manufactories is 
ten. 
¥ 
United States .—Attempts have been made at different times 
in this country to establish the manufacture of beet-root sugar, 
with, however, but moderate success. All of these attempts 
have, with but one exception, been on a small scale, while the 
industry was still in its infancy, and the prices of foreign 
sugar were-much lower tharwthey are now, or are likely to be 
again. 
