Alexandria Gazette

Sugar From Beets.—Some time since, a few public spirited gentlemen of our city, impressed with a belief that something remained yet to be done for the improvement of land near the city, projected a plan of cultivating beets, with a view of extracting there from "sugar." In order to a proper commencement of the project, they employed a person competent to the undertaking to proceed to France, and there obtain a thorough knowledge of the best manner of promoting the growth of the beet, of procuring thence the saccharine properties with which that vegetable abounds.

We have before us now, a piece of sugar purchased in the south of France, at nine and a half cents per pound, which is in every respect equal to the best loaf sugar, in appearance and taste. This is part of a large quantity obtained from beets, and will serve to show that the plan is feasible, if the sugar can be obtained at a sufficiently low price, in a country where labor is high—that can only be known by fair experiment. It is the wish of the gentlemen referred to that the experiment should be tried. Those who are willing to aid the interests of the middle states, or who would have good sugar from free labor, should lend a hand to the experiment, and contribute towards the expense—U. S. Gaz.