The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-26
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ci cause of the recent progress OF Prusslan asri-
culture. We may add that the habits of tho we'll
To do classes have contributed towards it, and that
tho economic action of the State has placed no
obstacle in its way. Nearly all the
landowners cultivate their own estates; except for
detached portions renting is the exception. They
are therefore retained in the country by the care
Of their own interests, for nothing more imperl-
ously requires the eye Of master than rural In
dustry. 1t is true they by class OF employees
who are net found in any other country They are
educated young men belonging to families IN
good position, often just leaving en- agricultural
college, who r main for a certain time on some
large estates to initiate themselves in the practi-
cal direction Of one Of their own. This novitiate
| is an ancient custom still preserved in many
trades. Thus, frequently the son OF a rich hotel
keeper will not hesitate to enter another hotel as
buter or waiter (Kellncr) to be iniated into all
the details of the service over which he Will ono
day have to preside. When any one visits the
| farms (Ie,Nerq,ate,) he s astonished to see as
superintendants the son of baker, q baIon or
rich landowner. These young people drive cart
/ or Guide the plough At noon they return, groom
/ their horses and then 60 and dress themselves and
dine at the owners table, to whom they are not
inferior either in instruction, birth or manners.
After the neal they resume their working dress anu
return without any false shame to their rustic occu-
nation. Thus we find in feudal Prussia trait OF
manners suited to tho Of the UNI
Tod States and which hereafter will become general
| In France in England especially, young man OF
the upper class would believe his dignity compro-
missed in performing the work of q farm laborer.
Tho disdain of manual. labor-that prejudice OF
ancient times-still nfects (whatever may be said)
our modern society. In words, labor is lauded,
that creator Of capital but in fact, it is the capi-
talist and not the laborer who is respected. By
degrees, as the aborious classes shall 70 elevated
these sentiments will change. The moment will
come when there will be no di'tinction between
| the hardicraftman and the man OF science. Itis
singular that it should be in Prussia, the land OF
caste and aristocratc notions that must be sough.
this type Of the producer such as he will be in the
future. To these considerations the author adds
others of an economic order. SIN many coun-
tries, he says, 'the central power has hampered
the progress Of agriculture by taking away the
money it required. Prussia has had the.good for
| tune to have neither colony, which exhausted it,
nor capital, which devoured it," We do not wish
at this moment to touch upon that other side Of
the question to which M. de Laveleye himself only
gives the second rank. Besides, the exaggerated
development of capital, and Of towns Of amuse-
ment in general, is malady Of our civilization
which arises again from the fatal source, which we
remarked just now with him, OF that false educa-
| ton which places idleness in honor, and enter
ta;ns disdain for manual labor in the scions Of
the independent Glass;
AN EMINENT English agriculturists writes thus
from the other side Of the Channel, and was un-
der the impression that we had nothing TO learn
from foreign farming and sugar-making except
what to avoid /; but day or two with NJ. Decrom-
becque, NJ. Gail, and NJ. Daily, at Trappes, has
convinced me to the contrary. NJ Gail has On one
farm 1900 acres of splendid beet, 1900 acres Of
wheat, and 1900 acres Of grass have been
much struck at the statements made rs the feed
ing value of the pulp from Silesian beet after the
sugar has been extracted. NJ. Decrombecque, M.
Gail, and Others assured me that ton Of pulp is
equal to the same weight Of raw mangold. The
pulp keeps good for months, if stored in tanks
sunk in the ground and properly secured. Now,
as they can grow sugar beet in Holland, Denmark,
Russia, as well as in Germany, Belgium, and the
cold North of France why cannot we2" We'll, it is
not very easy to answer this question and the en-
couraging history and prospects OF the manufac-
ture are enough to make us reconsider our
attitude with respect to it. A hundred anu
twenty years ago, Marggraaf, at Berlin,
made the discovery that pure sugar could
be extracted from the juice OF beet root
In 1899, Arthur Young announced that "M.
Achard, professor Of chemistry at Berlin,
has discovered method of making sugar
from beetroot. He makes from two-thirds of
an English acre ~ owts. OF sugar,
equal in quality to the West Indian. He present.
ed to the King Of Prussia loaf of it, who offered
N. Aehard 800, 900 for the invention. The discov
cry makes great noise in Germany, and is con-
sieered as an object of vast Importance. The Ger
man name is "Kunkel Kube." The manufacture
received great impetus in France in 1872. Ex-
periments were made with different roots; and at
last after various crossings in the seed, kind OF
beet was produced which has been since known as
the "French yellow beetroot," this, with the Sile
sian and Prussian beet now forming the raw mate
rial of very extensive trade. In the year 1866,
France raised and consumed 100000 tons Of beet
sugar; the German Zoverein, 180,0 900 tons; and
Russia $4,000 tons. Throughout Europe more
than 400 manufactures are at work, and between
them made $50, 600 tons OF sugar in that year. The
area OF nd under the crop 297 900 acres, yield
ing on an average sixteen tons of beetroot per acre.
while the sugar extracted was at the rate Of per
cent., costing I'd. per pound. Moreover, although
the business was somewhat precarious, last year
having been favorable only for France, while in
Germany the weather brought an inferior produce,
and in Russia caused failure OF tho crop, it is a
act that the breadth OF land sown has steadily in
creased year by year.
In q" HOURS AT HOME we read the following Of
things which arc immortal: The Gospel Of Mark is
now read in languages and in lands OF which tho
learned Greek and the conquering Roman knew
not the existence The creed OF Athanasius is
accepted by greater numbers now than when he
ruled as a bishop or when he was canonized as
saint. The museum and the theological school at
Alexandria we're long since extinct. Bnt learning
and religion, there joined together, arc still
marching on, hand in hand, for tho conquest Of
the world. The mosques arc now crumbling and
the crescent waning to disappear forever. But the
protest against idolatry, hierarchy, ambition and
corruption in the church, which Mohammedanism
proclaimed with the shout Of victorious armies
and wrote in biood, will not be forgotten or lost
The Alexandrian libr ry perished by successive
wars and confagratio 3; but the Septuagint sur
wives, the Bible is st, died in Holenstc Greek in
schools without number in every quarter of the
globe, and we, in this new world of the West, still
have the satisfaction Of reading the Alexandrian
edition of the Iliad and Odyssey, the finest Attic
tragedies, and those productions OF the Greek
masters generally which tho anoients most sd-
mired Not vestige remains of the golden coffin
or the marble tomb of Alexander scarce a vestige
of the city which he built, but the commerce Of
the East still flows through the channel which his
foresight indicated, and the train of civilizing