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The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom: Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)

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The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom: Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

Name: The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom: Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.
Author: Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)

Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)

Botany, Economic

+----------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
  |BEET ROOT SUGAR.|   1849.    |   1850.    |   1851.    |   1852.    |
  +----------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
  |                |   Tons.    |   Tons.    |   Tons.    |Estmd. Tons.|
  | France         |    38,000  |    61,000  |    75,000  |    60,000  |
  | Belgium        |     5,000  |     6,000  |     8,000  |     9,000  |
  | Zollverein     |    33,000  |    38,000  |    49,000  |    50,000  |
  | Russia         |    13,000  |    14,000  |    15,000  |    16,000  |
  | Austria        |     6,500  |    10,000  |    15,000  |    18,000  |
  +----------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
  |                |    95,500  |   129,000  |   162,000  |   153,000  |
  | Cane Sugar     |   919,182  |   952,200  |   977,547  | 1,044,542  |
  +----------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
  | Total          | 1,014,682  | 1,081,200  | 1,139,547  | 1,197,542  |
  +----------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

The price of sugar has, however, fallen considerably, and like many
other things--corn, and cotton, and tea--has been lower for a long
period than ever was known before.

                Average price per London Gazette.
  Year ending July 5,     British West India.      Mauritius.
  1842                         37s.  0d.              -----
  1843                         34s.  7d.            33s. 10d.
  1844                         34s.  9d.            34s.  7d.
  1845                         31s.  3d.            30s.  3d.
  1846                         35s.  3d.            34s.  2d.
  1847                         32s. 11d.            32s.  1d.
  1848                         24s.  3d.            23s.  3d.
  1849                         24s.  4d.            24s.  0d.
  1850                         25s.  3d.            28s.  8d.
  1851                         27s.  3d.            26s.  9d.
  Half-year ending Jan. 5,
  1852                         27s.  3d.            26s.  9d.

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