Show fc BELT INDUSTRY there is information for those connected with sugar interested inte reste in a report just issued by the Aen cultural department on the sugar beet in reviewing the asat of manufacture t in factories reporting in germany the mean net profit for each factory was for the past year the price re ported paid for beets is usually fictitious the beet growers owning the factory and to share in the general profits rather than to charge a high price for beets airet clasa beers rarely beell for less than 5 a ton the western beet company of cal stated that in the season ot 1885 89 the coat of sugar from the baete amounted to per ton 0 the department holds now that wit the best machinery and moat economical processes aset sugar can be made in this country at a cost of from ac to ac a pound when the price of nth beats does not exceed 5 a ton from reliable data it is elated that in europe the cost of erecting a factory with the most modern machiner of a capacity of at least tone of beets per day s about in abil country owing tn in transportation transport aion and the higher price of labor the cost probably would be the report discountenances cheap manufacturing processes and holds out no reasonable hope to farmers of successfully establishing a borne beet sugar factory but predicts that the cooperative factory methods practiced in europe in which growing tanners bold part or majority of the stock will eventually come into use here of metric ao 10 of beets delivered to the german factories in thare were tons grown by shareholder seven beet sugar factories are now shown to be in operation in this country and four building or contemplated tem plated the rate of increase in augar consumption for twentythree twenty three years lias been per cent in the united statta in france in germany in austria and 00 in england |