Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-02-14
Bee. Sugar and soryhO Syrup.

Mr.. kiippart, corresponding See
rctarv of the Ohio State Board Of
Agriculture, has published III the
Ohio Farmer an interesting letter up
on the subject Of Beet Root Sugar and
the Sorgho Syrup Crop. From re-
cent experiments in Franklin and
Licking counties, he thinks that D.
900 White Sugar Bcets can, with prop
or care, reproduced per acre, and that
their average weight would be six
pounds piece, making an aggregate
Of Go tons. Mr.. K. makes the fol
lowing computation:
"Iu France, it is said that the SUI
gar produced is equivalent to Is per
cent. of the raw material. But sup
pose We say that 10 per cent. only Is
lnanufacturable into sugar; the result
will be 81 tons of sugar; or suppose
we modify even this statement, and
put it down at 6,OO3 pounds of sugar
and 5000 pounds of syrup, equal to
900 gallons of syrup per acrc--tho
sugar will be worth say 6 cents per
pound, making $3.50; the syrup will
tie worth say 40 cents per gallon, ma
king $240; the product per acre, 5000.
This is no fancy sketch nor idle spec
ulation.
Mr.. Klippart makes a good show
of profits in the culture and manu-
facturc Of Sugar Bcets, provided
there is no fancy" in the figures. :
lie states, however, that Sugar Bccts
cannot be raised OH all soils, and that
sugar cannot be made from bccts
grown on some soils.
The industrious Mormons carly
tested the culture of Sugar Bects in
Utah, and SO confident were they oil
success in manufacturing sugar in SUI:
ticient quantity to supply the want,
Of the Latter Day Saints, that Brig
ham Young purchased and imported
an expensive sugar machinery from
France. 1t was hauled across the
plains to salt Lake Valley, bur after
pcrsevcring trials the lcet scheme had
t be abandoned. Cut off as the Nor
mons arc from Railroad or water
transportation. the introduetiom Of thC
Chinese Sugar Gaze proved a. cod
send 10 them, aud the live of Desc
ret already flows with Sorgho syr
up. From the report made to. tlIt
AGRICULTURAL Fairs held in the Terri
tory last fall, it il evident that tlC
Latter Day Saints will very soon bc
come entirely independent of "ou:sid,
barbarians" in the sugar and mollS
ses line
Mr.. klippart thus remarks uPoI
the Sofglo syrup crop Of Ohio:
"Thrce Years agn1 many pcrSnn
were disposed to regard the sorgl.o ,
failure, but in the hands Cf com c
teut men, it has proved a triumphan
success. Mr.. c.. JacobS, of this city
has presented ne with several @:llon!
which Is fully equal to any Golden,
Boston, Sugar House 'Belchcr,' q
other syrup ever taSted-ir is entire
" free from that peculiar taste or fla
vor generally azcoucomitant sOrgh,
syrup.
From the best authorities / can ot
tain on the subject, | am disposed t,
put down the SOrgho syrup crop O
Ohio for 1861, at not less than tw,
and half million galloQls- willis
other parties place ii as high as 81
million. 1t would not bc surprising
if in7fivc or six years Ohio Sorga
Syrup should Gea as abundant in ih
best markets, "a the st. Louis or Bo,
ton syrup has been heretofore"
The success of Sorgho is no langc
doubtful, and the recent improve
lnentS in its manufacture and prepe
ration for use make it more and NOR
palatablc and valuable. The Chic;
go Sugar Refining Company now +,
line quantities Of the crude SORGHUM
and ImpIlee syrup at ten. cents %
? gallon, or return seventy five gallot
Of refined for each hundred gallons
the crude article. A hundred gallon
Of the crude yield about ninety Of II
refined. The latter is pronounced
quail to the best refined golden syrul