Referring to the American sugar industry. Prof. Herzfeld K;iid that if this country
continues the bonnty on sugar live or ten years Germany will not only lose her pres-
ent American market for beet sugar, to which she ships largely, but will also lose
the English market, as we shall have the ability to take it from them. In Germany
we have some factories that handle 1,200 tons of beets per day, and iii France one
factory that uses the juice from 2.5,000 tons of beets per day.' He says we have a
material advantage in our long workiug season and will soon have so many beet-
sngar factories that we shall be sending beet sugar to Europe.
Every acre devoted to beets or sorghum is 1 acre less for wlieat
and corn. The more farmers raise sugar plants the better it will be
for those that raise grain.
Thepeople of the United Statesuse about4,000,000,000 poundsof sugar
a year now. The average production of sugar beets is 10 tons to the acre,
and the average yield of sugar is 165 pounds to tlie ton of good beets.
This gives 1,650 pounds of sugar to the acre of ground. A factory
that works up the beets grown on 5,000 acres of land will produce
8,250,000 pounds of sugar yearly, and at that average for the whole
country it would require 436 factories to supply the present demand.
