Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-09-01
From The NeW GeReSee Farmer.
BEET SUGAR EXPERIMENT.


A farmer from Genesee county, whose
name we have mislaid, gave us a verbal
account of small experiment which he
tried the = past season, in making sugar
from beets.
He took two barrels full (about BUSH
els) of yellow and white sugar beets to a
cider mill, and ground them, and pressed
out of them barrel Of juice. This he
boiled down in the same manner as for
maple sugar, and it yielded twenty pounds
of good sugar. A little milk and the white
of an egg was put into the syrup to clarity
it; but the sugar was of dark color, and
evidently requires some other process to
purify it. He is convinced that beet sugar
can be made with profit by common farm
ers, without any other apparatus than a
common cider mill and press, and two ket-
ties. He intends to try larger quantity
this year, and hopes to succeed in making
better quality of sugar.
If anyoT our correspondents can inform
him of the proper manner for clarifying
the sugar, it would be esteemed favor.
AGRIcULrURE.-Ext from Colonel
Todd's Address before the Kentucky State
Agricultural Society, January, 1889:
"Agriculture constitutes the business Of
sevcn-cights Of every civilized community,
and is the ultimate source of all national
power and wealth, commerce and manu-
features, being only subordinate results of
thus main spring If it be conceded that
it is the duty of the legislator to consult
the good Of the greatest possible number
in the community, the transcendant claims
of this class will not be questioned and
taking for granted that the condition Of our
agriculture admits of Improvement, and
that such improvement will lead to the re-
ceipt Of greater revenue, there will be no
difficulty in obtaining an assent to the pro-
position that the State is bound to elevate
the standard of good farming.
The advances made in agriculture by
the Romans, so beautifully illustrated by
their orators and poets, shared the fate Of
other improvements that were buried in the
dark ages, and it was not until after the
revival of letters that the present system
Of farming commenced in Flanders about
500 years ago; and although the soil was
originally a barren white sand, it now
Yields twice as much as the lands in Eng
land. The practicabllity of creating soil
is shown in the history of Flemish hus-
bandry, they seem to want nothing but
space to work on, whatever was the guam
tity or quality of the soil, they made it
productive. 1t is their maxim, that "with-
out manure there is no corn-wlthout cat
tie there is no manure, and without crops
or roots, cattle cannot be kept" The pro-
ductivencss Of their lands proceeded from
six causes-small farms-manure-rota
ton of crops-clover and roots-cuttlng
forage and grinding the grain-and the
farmers giving their personal attention TO
their farms; no numbering, no fishing, no
speculation, no laundering after Office. II
the personal DEPRESSION be pardonable,
will refer in connection with this subject,
TO an incident which occurred in my own
history when entering upon the cultivation
OF the soil. In conversation with an eX-
perienced farmer, was led to enquire as
TO the best mode of making corn. He told
me mus! Keep my icork-horSe fat. did
not then perceive the comprehensive cha
racter OF his counsel, but having long since
realized that it implies every thing con-
nected with good cultivation, although nei-
Their he nor knew that Cato, one of the
most illustrious Of the Romans, 1000 years
ago, had announced that "the true secret
in farming consists IN FEEDING WELL"