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STATE AGEICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 
“Another feature of the business is worthy of attention. The production 
of the sugar beet by farmers, for sale in a dried state to manufacturers of 
sugar, may be made to yield an immense revenue to rural industry. The 
beets are cut in small pieces, after washing, and dried by artificial heat, 
by which process from eighty to eighty-four per cent, of their weight is ex¬ 
pelled, leaving a residue containing fifty-five per cent, or more of sugar, 
which is extracted by infusion, often after months of delay and transporta¬ 
tion to distant factories. A specimen of this dried beet can be seen in this 
department, made by Thomas Gennert, of Chatsworth, Ill., who claims about 
eighty per cent, of sugar in it. As an illustration of the extent of such a 
business, a record may be cited of an establishment for obtaining sugar by 
infusion of dried beet, at Waghausel, near Carlsruhe, in the grand duchy of 
Baden, in which S,000 people were employed, a capital of eighty millions of 
francs (or sixteen million dollars) used, and twelve acres of land covered 
with buildings.” 
In Germany, the beet sugar paid last year $12,678,000 in tax to the govern¬ 
ment, and could defy competition; and in France 120,000 tons were made in 
three months in 1867. 
What they have done we can do surely. Let that crop be a means of im¬ 
provement and wealth among you, and, if it be necessary, the National 
Government should take measures for the encouragement of this important 
industry. 
It is a privilege to meet the working men and women of Wisconsin on an 
occasion like this. 
I have offered these views and presented these facts not as new or original 
with me, but because I feel they are of vital importance to us, and to that 
Future we would make great and truly noble. 
I have dwelt on the importance of building up diversified industry because 
it is of great importance to farmers, and to all. In the fit words of another: 
“ We cannot have the best farming until we have the best manufacturing- 
in varied forms and materials, each an indispensable help to the growth and 
perfectness of the other. 
“ Give us both, and the blendihg ofthese varied experiences and voca- 
, tions, the meeting and mingling of these many nature’s forces and materials, 
is full of benefit. It is civilization, culture, wealth of soul as well as of purse- 
To the farmer it is increase of the product of his acres, economy of exchange, 
work of hand or brain, for whatever gift of power or character his children 
may possess, instant and constant call for a variety of labor, and all the 
while the thrill of inventive genius pulsing through the serene quiet of his 
life in the fields, saving it from all narrowness or stagnation, that he may the 
more enjoy nature’s beauty, and the better make her forces serve him.” 
I do not feel like a stranger among you. Coming to this Western country, 
forty years ago, in my boyhood and youth I shared the toils and privations 
of our pioneer life. I have rolled and burnt logs, and ploughed and planted, 
