Cost to produce and manufacture Ioo lbs.
Net profit, at 4c per lb.................

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Cost to produce and manufacture Ioo lbs.
Net profit, at 3c.................. ....

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. .... 2 01
. ... I 98si
 $4 oo

........ 2 o01
... .... 98A
 $3 oo


STANDARD GRANULATED SUGAR CROP OF 16,000,000 POUNDS.
Net at 5c per 11. ......................... $477,o00 oo
Net at 4c per lb.......................... 317,0oo oo
Net at 3c per lb.......................... 157000oo oo
 NOTE-Fixed charges ($78,oo) on factory is excessive,
while 75c per ioo lbs. for manufacture is 50 per cent. greater
than allowed by numbers of practical sugar manufacturers of
large experience; with latest and most improved apparatus,
40c per Ioo lbs. is considered ample.
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 ESTIMATE FOR SMALL FIELDS OF CANE SOLD TO CENTRAL
 FACTORY.
20 acres of land,' at $20 .......................$ 400 oo
Cost of ditching, grubbing and preparing, $32.50. 650 oo
Seed cane. 4 tons per acre. at $4............... 320 oo
 Permanent investment ................ $1,370 oo
 ANNUAL EXPENSES.
 ANNUAL EXPENSES.


Cultivation, at $7.50 per acre...............
Harvest 30 tons per acre. at $1...............
6 per cent. on permanent investment..........
 Cost of 600 tons cane delivered at mill..
 Net value of cane, at $4 per ton........

 Cross value of cane at 5c per lb. for sugar
$8 per ton, $4,8oo, one-half gross value paid
grower ............... .................


..$ 150 oo
 600 oo
 82 20
S.$ 832 20
. 1.567 8o
 $2.500oo


. $2,400 oo