Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-09-11
From the New England Farmer.
BEET SUGAR.


We perceive by recent number, that
our neighbor the publisher Of the Yankee
Farmer, proposes forming an association
for the purpose Of ascertaining the prac-
ticability and advantages, if any, of the
manufacture of sugar from beets In this
country, BY the latest and most improved
methods. Especially he is DESTROYS of
determining whether it can be so manag-
ed, as has been represented, that every
farmers family in the country may bv a
simple household practice, supply their
own wants. We most heartily wish him
all possible success. How far the calcu-
lations which he has given to the public
in relation to this matter, are to be relied
on, we are not able to say But the funds
asked for are small affair compared with
the importance of the object in view; and,
divided as they will be, cannot fall heavi-
ly, even if the project should fail. But
success is highly probable.
The sugar beet is beginning to be much
cultivated in various parts of the State
We have seen considerable fields of it in
many places; and trials Of it as feed for
cattle and swine, have served to bring it
into favor. A company is prosecuting
the cultivation of it, as we have been in
formed, to large extent in Michigan,
with view to the manufacture of sugar.
One spirited individual has Informed us
that he has one hundred acres in that State
devoted to sugar beet. The present year
therefore, will probably decide what can
be done.
There are facts in regard to it now ex-
listing in France, which we find it diff
cult to reconcile to statements which are
constantly made in respect to the manufac-
ture in that country. The first is, why if
the cultivation and manufacture are as
profitable in that country as is represent
ed, they require So heavy a duty upon CO.
lonial sugar in order to protect the manu-
facture of beet sugar. The second is why,
if the new methods recently discovered
are successful, and by them the sugar can
be produced at low rate, they are not at
once adopted, and the government protec-
ton rendered unnecessary. An intelli-
gent gentlemen, sent out by the Northamp-
ton Beet Sugar Company, for the express
purpose of obtaining all necessary infor-
nation in relation to the matter, informed
US that Shuzenbach's method upon trial
in France was not approved. Pleisch-
man in his interesting report TO Congress
on this subject, states the discovery of
method of extracting the sugar from the
beet. by which a considerably larger
amount of sugar was obtained than by
Shutzenbach's method at a less expense,
and in way which would place the man
niacture within the reach of every farmers
tamily in the country. 1t is now full
time that we should have received the re-
sulls OF experiments made By this method.
Probably they have been made and others
are In possession of the results. We have
not been SO fortunate. Sautzenbach's
| method, as. we have been informed bv
persons who were not proprietors in tie
concern, has been tried at Nolthamnton
with success. We have seen a sample Of
the sugar made there, which promises
well; but can give no particulars More
than year since we mentioned the dis
coyery of method OF extracting and man.
ufactaring the sugar by a gentleman at
Stoneham, IN the vicinity of Boston, which
promised the advantages of general prac-