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Show ' i i in c Beet SuRar Industry t'apitnliptfl of the ciiullMv have their eyes now mi inn proposftiMn in tho We-t mid they 'me Uio licet sugar in-dusti in-dusti v and ekctrio pow.er plants. They hold ther. -o' great pocnlulities iu-.both The beauty . f thi) beet sugar proposition proposit-ion is that it t -lellts the fannote, and furnishes aii in. -Mite amount of htlot while it mny uls, in turn benefit the capitalists. .Mr. F, W. Oltn has given some stat istics to a New Yoik papr on thc-pio-position that wry pioe interesting in this section. For the yeas 1S90 tho le-cord le-cord of the beet sugar manufactory tit Watfconville, Cul., nliowed that the avoiage yield of beets was 14.01) groa" tons per acre, pioductug an average o 3,545 lbs. of suar. The farmer rtcciv-ed rtcciv-ed .4 per ton for tho beets or 0 per ncr. ' Hera comes in :t valuable compitrisoi: of the results of the farmer in the cultivation culti-vation of sugar beets and wheat. -Air. Glen linds that with the present duty upon imported raw nugar, it canr.ot be paid down in N. Y or S.m Francisco duty paid, at less than V cents per pound. Tlieiefore, to pay for the sugar product of the averauo acre of beets will requiie $124 or 105 bus. ot wheat at 75c per bushel, or the product of L. acres of land at -'0 bus. per acre. Allowing that the average per acre o good land is l'J'rf tons of beets, yielding !i,000 lbs of sugar, this gives the farmer 150 per acre, while tho refined sugar as 8k; cents per pound givea tne refiner f 105 per acre, or a margin of $55 for hie services in converting an aero of beet85 into leiined sugar. With an average o1 of 13 bus. of wheat lo the aLre in the United States for the p.ut 7 yeaie. and unravel agetpriceiof-51) centfi p6ilU.ua.. 'tlft? .faiTerhaaliciillzelI 'ijuTiTsiffpcr wi o'aa tho gross reeult of wheat glowing, lit must ii6o moro than Gacreq of his laud to produce the amount that he can real-izo real-izo for 1 acre of beets. As te-aids tli ilnanlcnl results of the beet sugar industry to the emtio country, count-ry, tlie demostrntion which Mr. Ulen obtained fiom hib facts and .figures is?' an impoitant one. He says T Wo consume 2,000,000 tons of sugar annually. To produce it at 3,0(0 ll3 an acre will rt-qniro 1,333,833 acies of landofgiod quality and v'll cultivated To buy it in Einopein tho raw stal and payduty and freight upon it toN.Y. Will cost 140,000,00 tr .the pioduct of 0 million acres of wheat at !-15 per acre. |