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Show SUGAR INDUSTRY. State of the European Beets. BAD WEATHER AGAINSTTMEM The Supply at Various Places Hitracli from l 0. MehL't Monthly rtport of July 1831: OKIIMAM UMI'Illi;. Septcuiliui 1st to Juno. "Oih 10 mouths l'roductlun . l,:il(),U00 tons. ImportM .. (1,111 tons. Slocks Sept. Int.. . 13.10S tons. tockTyuno SOffi lfil,(XH)tomf. Deliveries 1,170,322 lona. KxorlH (17,01 tmis. Consumption 10 months OD.I.IHO tons. " previous 'i mouths .'!.!,!) Ill tons. vjinsumpllun, 'i mouths O.CI.-'Dtoiu. Wcnlher, Juno for n few days was seasonably warm, but then turned cool, and it wan not until the Ulst that the desired heat 1 nine again. Neai the cud of Juno thu heat was intense, while in July the temperature has been low again. There wero only eight davs In June without ruin, and only 11 few rainless days in July to date. In tho beginning of June tlio beet roots had mado good progress, no that tho thinning of them was pretty far advanced. Tho lalo sowings sow-ings had at that time gullied 11 splendid development under tlio favorable weather. weath-er. Unhapnily, the cold and exceedingly wet weather during the lirst two thirds of Juno made walking or working in tlie Uclds almost impossible, crpeciallron low ground. Tho work of transplanting and stietching tho beets iviu stopped, sincn it could not be done with the foil clinging to tlio lingers of the laborers. In consequence of this, when tho hot weather commenced in thu last third ol June, only n part of tho beet fields hid been thinned, while, in ordinary veare this work is mostly finished by the middle, of June. Tho weeds had grown to an extent never seen before, while" tho beet plants had made but little pio grcss in their development!. Willi tin' cummer heat all hands were employed-to employed-to make up for the lost time as far at possible. The moist hot-house, tempet-' ature gicatly accelerated tho develop? ment-ofthcbeeti,"ndtttfVc.lrlyJsilir fields, that wero thinned in time, and cleared of weeds, aro looking well and piomisingly, witli tho exception of lleldt that suffered from special causes, sucl. as hail or overflow r . On the oilier hano the unsteady weullicr, tho late tliinin or tho plants, and the exceedingly dif ilcult cxtiipation of tlie weeds, hasn de-picssing de-picssing cil'ect iion the agriculturist. Hut it is only tho wcathci after tho middle of August that turm the tcalcs, or decides tho Agti culture or Bugar jield. An usual, wc begin in July to ascertain tlie weight 01 tlio beets, and their sugar contents, b.v taking beets from tho s.11110 distiicli cadi year, nnd having tliem weighed and and tested. Thu latest tests compare com-pare uh follows: 1MI1. HO. 80 RS nn'ity i,s n,r)r u'.n u ugar (I.'J8 7.00 11.01 ('..Op. cem r ity HUM CHUG 7.1.25 07.7 i'roin this theio results that tho licet in weight witli leaven are not below last jcur, hut without leaves uiu 11 little below. be-low. Tlie contents of sugar mu beftivv last ve.ir, hut still the present state would givu hopes of a good middle nop, ifitweiu not too early vet login' 111 opinion us to the Until icmilt of the harvest. Thou tests are mostly hical, and judging of the inoiictar- statu of tin beet Held. Supply In Austria and Germany to gcther theie icmniued uftei July lsi. available foi cxHiit, :M1,000 tons, again? 1U.1, 171 tunsiit sniiiu time lust ) em. 1 tho beet woiklng is Intel this year thai last, or 1 the consumption of July mu August should bu linger, tliu niiioiiu nvailablo for expuit will bo decreased. In Austria-lfiingiuy they ait- ulinom eery heie salislied with the Mute o the beet tiulds. in 1'ianco a geiicrnllv good development of the heels is re ported wlicrcvei tho lields wcrocleiuei of weeds in H'lison. In ISelgiuiu am' Holland similar accounts tiro given. In KiiMiia I lie ttute of thu lields in h.iIo to bo good. Tho total increase of aien in lieet cul ture In Liuope is likely 10 bell lot!) percent. 'Iho fust nop estimate wil be given in September. |