The idea of introducing the manufacture of beetroot sugar into Canada, has during the last few years, deeply moved the canadian public, and assuredly nothing should more attract the attention of an essentially agricultural people.<br><br>Not only would its manufacture be a source of profit to those engaged in it and a boon for the working classes, but the general cultivation of the sugar beet would necessarily introduce most desirable improvements in the agricultural system of the country.<br><br>In publishing this small work, I wish to convey in the first part of its information to farmers as to the manner best calculated to succeed in cultivating this plant, and in the second part I will explain the principles upon which the sugar is made.<br><br>In writing it, I endeavored specially to make myself understood by all who are able to read.<br><br>It is now by experience incontestably shown that the soil of Canada is favorable to the culture of the sugar beet.