The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-06-02

u is DtileFeu, ptlu poorer TttuTu tlldU al
most any other agricultural product. The
laudabo enterprise Of introducing into the
United States the culture Of the cane, aud
the manufacture Of sugar from the same,
has, il is probable, been hardly remunera.
ted, though individual planters, on some 10
cations, bave occasionally enriched them
selves. The amount Of power required,
with the cost Of the machinery aud the
means of cultivation, will ever place this
branch of industry beyond the reach Of per
sons of moderate resources, while the ap
paraius and means necessary for the pro
duction Of corn and other crops lie within
the ability of many.
Should the manufacture Of sugar from
the corDs;alk prove as successful as il now
promises, enough might soon be produced
to supply our entire home consumption, TO.
ward which, as has been mentioned, at least
l20000000 pounds Of foreign sugar are
annually imported, and surplus might be
had for expectation. la Europe, already,
more than l50, 000, 600 pounds of sugar are
annually manufactured from the beet, which
possesses but one third Of the saccbnrlne
matter that the corustalk does and there
are not less than 500 beet sugar nanufac
tories in France alone. BY this manulac
lure of sugar at the West, the whole
amount of freight and cost Of transportation
on imported sugar might also be saved
a sum nearly equal, It is probable, to the
first cost Of the article at the seaport F.; so
that the price Of sugar is at least doubled if
not almost trebled TO The consumer al dis
lance when so imported. Not less han
100000 pounds Of sugar, II is said, are
annually imported, for home consumption,
in the single city of Cincinnati.
On AND STEARINE LARD AND THE
CASTOR BEAN, &c.-rhese two are arti.
cles which will hereafter attract much al
tenllon in many parts Of our country
The use of LARD instead Of oil for lamps
of q peculiar construction, has been here
lotore attempted with good success, as
an article of economy. 1t has ever been
adopted 10 the light. houses in Canada, on
the lakes, aud is said TO burn longer, and
free from smoke, while the cost Of the ar.
ticle is stated to be about one third The cost
oil sperm oil. But ii has now been dIscov
cred that oil equal to sperm can easily be
extracted from lard, at a great advantage,
and that it is superior 10 lard fer burning,
without the necessity of copper tubed
lamp. Eight pounds Of lard is equal in
weight to ono gallon sperm oil. The
"lIole of this is converted into oil aud siear
Inc, an article Us wuicn candles that are
good substitute for spermaceti can be made.
Allowing, then, for the value of the stear
ine above the oil, and il may be safely cal
cuated, that when lard is six cents per
pound, as II IS now, but four or five cents
at the West, gallon of oil can be afforded
there for fifty cents; since the candles from
the siearlne will sell for from twenty five TO
thirty cents per pound.
Stearlue for this purpose has also recent
ly been obtained from castor oil, The pro
duct of the palma christi, or castor bean,
plant successfully cultivated in portions
OF our country.
OIL, IT is well known, is dn article Of large
consumption in our country. The amount
Of sperm oil from our whale fisheries, for
the year lS4l, was 1896 752 gallons Of
whale and fish oil, $500 Gel GALLONS
making a sum total OF IL ,32S AS gal
Ions. The amount for lS40 did not vary
much from the. same. The amount of
sperm and whae oil exported 10 1910 was
4 $50 4sG leaving for home consumption
6 1872 ,920 gallons. lnthe year lS40 there
was also exported from this country e52,.
93s pounds of spermaceli candies. From
these statements, which do not include lin
seed, olive, and other oils, 1t will be seen
that the encouragement for the manuac
ure Of oil and stearine, from cornmeai, and
lard, and the castor bean, is very great
Large quantities of oil for dressing cloths,
olllug machinery, &c, are required in the
simply, no, less than 1859 gallons are
thus needed.
Oil, too, enters largely into the COMPOSE.
ton OF sonp; and should il be found, as per.
haps by experiment Il may be, that 'hs
cornmeul and lard oils are not liable TO the
OnieCuOu WHICH, IL 10 sdlu, dtteuuS 'ho
of whale oil IN this respect, the demand for
this purpose may be OF Importance TO pro-
ducers of this article.
1t is no, improbable that, by further ex'
perlments, an oil may be obtained from the
cotton seed, of such an excellent quality as
to make what is now almost a total loss an
article of great value. The Germans al
the West are said 10 obtain oil IN some
quantities FROM the seed Of the pumpkin
! and the seeds of the suufower, and rape
seed, il is well known, have been used &c
advantage for the same purpose.
While Great Britain and other foreign
countries have steadily pursued policy de-
signed and obviously tending to exclude
our agricultural products from their trade
it becomes an object of no small conse
quence 10 US to evince, as the foregoing
statistics have done, how much wealth we
possess in our surplus products OF wheat
and various other articles Of food, togcthel
with the prospective increase of these ant
other products suited to call out the enter