Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-08-09

We spoke last week of the future pros
poets of sugar production in general; we
now have to speak of the prospects of the
manufacture from beet-root in France. The
Monitewr gives the result of the season Of 1865
and SO, during which there were A. 8 factories
in operation, producing in all, 282, 900 tuns
of sugar. The produce of the preceding
season was only 1853, 900 tuns, 80 that the
increase amounted to more than two thirds
of the former yield. M. Pezeyre, q veil
known writer on such subjects, says /" that
the native manufacture of sugar was never
before so large or fourishing." The album
dance of the roots and the richness of
their saccharine matter was the principal
causes of the extraordinary increase in pro-
duction recorded above; but it most not be
forgotten that to the improved modes of
manufacture must be attributed the greatly
increased quantity of crystallized sugar
1--WE referred to the efforts of one manufac-
turer, M. Roberts de Massey, in this direc-
ton in THE Grocer Of the second instant
Many sugar houses now produce two owt.
of sugar from a tun and quarter of beet,
which is a considerable increase upon the
yield. There are sugar works which divide
from twenty to thirty per cent among their
shareholders, consequently the sugar fever
has seized upon the agriculturists of those
departments where the beet-root grows with
success, and in some places the growers are
subscribing their means in order to make
their sugar. Some few believe that in
short time there will be no such thing as mo-
lasses produced in France from beet-root,
and that every ounce OF extract will be
made crystallizable, and that the increase
in the growth Of the beet-root and the man
ufacture will proceed so rapidly that the
price of the sweet product will be very
greatly reduced. If these views are cor
rect, and allowing perhaps for little en-
ehusiasn, there is no reason to totally dis
credit them; and provided also that forced
increase in cultivation does not give rise to
some kind of disease in the roots-as hap
pens constantly in such cases-this pros
pect as regards beet-root sugar may create
great change in the markets, for the i'm
provement and increased development of
beet-root sugar-making in France will have
its effect in all other countries where the in
dustry exists. The cheapening of beet SUI
gar will certainly not aid the recovery of
the sugar trade in the West Indies or else
where, but until the sugar cane can be made
to yield the amount of juice that it ought
to yield, it is matter Of congratulation
that the beet-root prospects are SO faYora-
bic. Carlcatures were very faeetious half
century ago, over the notion of making
sugar-out of turnips as they chose to call
the roots, and one of them represented a
nurse presenting an enormous beet-root to
the little King of Rome, and saying "Suck,
baby, suck! Papa says it's sugar" The
commencement of the beet-root sugar man
ufacture, like that Of many other good
things, arose out Of dire necessity, but men
OF science and others have turned the laugh
against the caricaturists, for it is certain
that nearly 100000 tuns of sugar have
been extracted from beet-roots in single
season. The progress Of the trade reflects
the highest honor upon our neighbors, and
we heartily rejoice in their having found
such excellent employment for the land and
its cultivation.-The Grocer