The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1842-04-16

preserved till late in the autumn, this will
still more enhance the value of this pro-
duct for the purpose. 1t may, also, be
true that. as in the case OF the beet, no an
imal carbon may be needed, but little
limewaer will answer for the purpose Of
Qualification; after which the juice may be
boiled in common kettle, though the i'm
proved method of using vacuum pans
will prove more profitable when the SUI
gar is made on a large scale.
Corn, too, is indigenous, and can be
raised in all the States of the Union, while
the cane is almost confined to one and
even in that the average amount Of sugar
produced, in ordinary crops, is but 900 or
1000 pounds to the acre; not much be-
vond one third of the product in Cuba
and other tropical situations, vi ere it is
indigenous to the soil The investment
III The sugar manufactures from the cane
in this country has, it is believed, paid Il
poorer return than almost any other ag-
ricuItnral product. The laudabIe enter
prise of introducing into the United States
the culture of the cane and the manutac-
lure of sugar from The same. has, il is
probable, been hardly remnnerated, though
individual planters, on some locations,
have occasionally enriched themselves
The amount of power required, with the
cost of the machinery and the means of
cultivation will ever place this branch of
industry beyond the reach of persons of
moderate resources, while the apparatus
and means necessary for the production
of corn and other croTs lie within the
ability of many.
Should the manufacture of sugar from
the cornStak prove as successful as it
now promises, enough might soon be pro-
duced % supply our entire home con-
sumption, TOW ard which, as has been
mentioned, at least l20,G00,O00 pounds
of foreign sugars are annually imported.
and surplus might be lad for exporIa-
ton. In Europe, al eady, more than
l5O.00O,OOO pounds of sugar are annually
manufactured from the beet which pos
sesses but one third of the sa ccharinc
matter that the corns,ak does; and there
a e not less than 500 beet sugar manufac-
tories in France alone. BY this manu-
| iaclure of sugar at the West, the whole
amount Of freight and cost of transporta-
ton on imported sugar might also he sa-
we'd a sum nearly equal, it is probable,
to the first COS, of the Article al the sea-
| port; so that the price OF sugar is AT least
doubled, If moi almost trebl' d, 10 the con-
sumer al a distance, when so imported
Not less that 100000 pounds of sugar.
1t is said, are annual y imported, for home
consumption, in the single city Of Gin
cInnali.
or AND STrARINE FROM LARD AND
CASTOR BEAN, &c.-These two are ari-
Giles which Will hereafter attract much at
ienilon III many parts OF our c. untry.
The use OF LARD instead of oil, for lamps
OF peculiar construction. has been here
toiore attempted with good success, as an
article Of economy 1t has been adopted
in the lighthouse in Canada, on the
lakes, and is said to burn longer, and free
from smoke, while the cost of the article
is stated to be but about one third the
cost of Sperm oil But it has now beer
discovered Iha, oil equal to sperm can be
easily extracted from lard, at great advan.
rage, and that it is superior to lard io
burning, without the necessity of cop.
per tubcd lamp. Eight pounds of fare
equal in weight one gallon of sperm oil
The whole of This is converted into oi
and stearinc, an article Of which candle:
that are good substitute for spermacet
can be made. Allowing, II, for the val.
ne of the stearine above the oil.and it ma '
be safely calculated, that when lard is sin
cents per pound. as it is now but four OF
five cents AT the West. gallon of oil car
he afforded there for fifty cents; since the
from twenty-five to thirty cents per pound