New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-04

Beet Sugar factories consuming 2 S6 tuns of Beets
per anuum and producing therefrOm lS,445 tuns OF
raw Sugar and 1886 tuns of Molasses. In 1866, heI
factories had increased to 800, consuming 2lO6OOC
tuns of Beets and producing therefrom 10000 tuns
of Sugar and 50544 tuns of Molasses. And whereas
IL originally required fifty tuns OF Beets and in 1910
eighteen tuns to produce tun OF Sugar, successive
improvements had by 1865 enabled the manufac-
turcrs to obtain tun of Sugar from less than elrt
tuns of BeetsS with more than quarter of tun OF
Molsses And the utmost limit of improvement is
not yet reached.
The Government which, in 1910 was content with
tax of 1913 cents per tun onlthe Beets consumed IN
ugar-making had increased this mpOst to q 236 in
1850 and this to s. 90 in 1S5Sequal to $50 to S43 PEI
Eun Oh the Sugar produced. Under this impost the
wholesale price of Sugar was about seven cents per
pound.
recent Haadels Arckire Prussan 1860, gives the
following account of the progress of Beet Sugar in
dustry since 1886 in North Germany, or rather the
sphere of the Zon Verem
"Tor the first four years tax was laid on the article
IN order to encourage the production ID the nth year.
small financial duty of 1913 cents gold per tun of beet
roots was Levied during the next threes years ~, IT
@owgs six "g Years. it was trebed and made
sls ccnts; then came three years that it was
doubled for period Of veyears when 81 Az levied
and finally for the last niue years was raised twenty
a
four cars produced no revenue but in 1867 1t yielded
During the thirty-one years. the production Of beet
root from 55SSS2 owt to 55g0Gl in 1867, and the
quantity Of raw sugar made from 1t had increased from
ain 1884, there were I22 manufactures and at the end
81 l5G, they had increased to 296 which, however not
proportion to the rise of the production but during
the 0but period the improvements in the machinery au
eighteen hundreds beet root were required yield
hundred Of sugar twelve hundred sufficient in 1867
From calculation made OF the percentage as compared
with tic population, II appears that the production OF
sugar at first was only 0lo per head but amounted last
year 20 Pc n per head Of tho population.
The statistics Of the exports and imports OF sugar Tor
each year Of the abOvenamed period, show that while
he imports OF sugar in 1881 were l2O25ly owl they nau
dwiuG,i down TO the insignificant quantity Of 599 cwt
nearly IN the same though reversed ratio. in 1881
bey amounted to 4979 and in 1867 had risen gradually
The Hon. Horace Capron u. SCOmmissioner of
Agriculture, upon a call moved by the Hon. S. NJ.
CuilOn in the House of Representatives, reported to
Congress facts illustrating the production of Beet
sugar. whereof part have heretofore been given
from other sources, but there are Others of decided
interest which give on the Commissioners author
ity lie says;
without Government encouragement at the outset,
which bless the world When the first BOnaparte fostered
he ~ extracting Sugar from this garden vegetable as
practical matter the possibility Of obtaining a good
article had long previously been demonstrated by chem
lists it only remained to be shown that the manufacture
Jet exclude from his empire the Of British
-
per Ioaul prize OF 100000 francs offered by
jhe Preach Government for the most successful method
~ obtaining supply OF indigenous Sugar II
eviucl, that such supply must be furnished from the
sin Poland also IN 1872 government loans and exemp
ten from cOnserptOn, in aid of the enterprise were
areely offered In fact the principal governments OF
cOuacual Europe WED with each other in perfecting
ami extending the new business.
a ma.Ufactory Of Beet sugar in successful opera
experiments were undertaken few years later. Up to
1878 very marked or rapid progress was made though
the business was constantly extending.
In 1872, the manufacture, already established upon
solid footing, embraced the operations OF 265 factories In
France Germany, Sweden, and Russia. In l849 France
alone had Prussia $40 and Russia 45 The present
number factories in France according TO De Neumann
OF former days and fourteen of the number have been
established during the past year AT the first OF January
IsS 3lJ reneres OF Beet Sugar were reported as ia
The total product in 1928 is stated to have been 1000
uns 5jl 10000 tuns; and in 1867 the guam
Ny of Cf30o0 tuns or l4S5l2OOOO pounds worth $780,
o06.ooO. or about seven cents per pound.
sixteen years ago, France was able 10 manufacture
g Of her total consumption OF sugar or 6OO tuns ana
Bolgunl consuming 1900 tuns imported in 1851, but
1900 and Russia $4,000 tuns the latter eOun
addition to the home product. The manufacture Of
Europe, stated above, has been almost quadrupled
that date and cane sugar III several OF those states
Te amount manufactured in France during the three
months ending November 80 1867, was l3o55S tulsGl5
than made in the same period OF the previous
Tie product Of Beets per acre is from fourteen to
foem tuns in France and Belgium 6noTi33us crops
[iels contains the statement of NJ de Gasparin of q
tus weight upon 80 perehes 6 square yards or
nearly 10 tuns per He sowed the seed under glass
traspauted plants in APRIL hoed repeatedly, and rri-
gated every two weeks.
MOlasse required for consumption III TINS country, ana
he amount OF money paid for foreign labor IN its pro
duton can be appreciates Dy game az G sd4nG
20 small domestic product OF cane, maple, ana OtheT
sugars ana large qn4nUues OF sorghun SIo i lSdd
account Of ncompleteness in the official statement