Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-04-26
Beet Root Sugar.


VIZ Beet Root Sugar.
The monthly report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, for February,
has valuable compilation of facts
and figures relative to the manufac-
ture of beet sugar, which, in some
sections of the country, is attracting
much attention, In France, the
process of manufacture has been
brought to great degree of perfec-
ton. Nearly one half the sugar con-
sumed there is made from beets, and
the consumption during the last nine
months of 1869, was 294, 900 tons, in
in the following proportions Beet.
l37, 900; Colonial, $1,000; foreign,
10000. The statistics of the beet
sugar industry in Europe show an
increase OF 100, 900 tons, in the pro-
duction of this year, which is placed
ut 725 900 tons. The annual product
exceeds that Of Cuban cane sugar.
The number of manufactures in
Europe is reported as follows: In
France, 475; in Belgium, 100; the
Zollverein, 297 Austria, 200. In
England there is only one manufac-
tory. Strenuous efforts are being
made in Wisconsin and in Illinois to
make the manufacture of beet sugar
success. The Board Of Trade of
Fon du Lac held a meeting on the 22d
OF February, 1870, in relation to the
subject aud estimates were made of
the probable cost of running fac
tory capable of using fifty IONS of
beels per day. The tota cost of
loateria and labor per day was esti-
mated ST S652 aad The product as
follows:
Coffee sugar az 1000 pounds at Is cents-.....s60O
Coffee sugar (C), 1000 pounds at 10 centS.... 100
heiiS" sugar. 800 pounds at IL cents.......... 50
Molasses. 5000 pounds AZ cents............... 60
Pup for feeding IS
Total inc0me...... $500
~APo"SeS--..- o62
Net profit sos
The cost and outfit of the factory
was estimated at S36,67 The annual
expenses, including interest at ten per
cent. on capital, insurance and Incl
dentals were estimated at $5S,76l.
The following table exhibits the prob
able annual income:
Sugar 100000 pounds at II 600
Pulp for feeding cattle 100000 pounds..... 200
Moasses, 5000 gallons at IS cents.......... 1850
Rosidues fertilizers 1000
400
The manufacture of beet sugar has
reached high degree of perfection
in Europe, and this has been attain
ed through long years Of experiment,
and vast expenditure. That the
same satisfactory result will in time
be reached in this country, there is
no reason to doubt. 1t is q compar-
atively new industry, and time will
be required to perfect it. The fol-
lowing table shows the comparative
results in France in 1887 and 1865:
1887. 1865.
Yield Q: bsets per acre,i2 tons. 10 tons.
Cost ton...... .........$3. S32
Percentage of saccha-
rine..................l0 per cent. ia per cent.
Sugar produced..........4 20 per cent. per cent
Cost per pouHd............7 $40 cents cents
Amount OF sugar pro-
The manufacture of beet sugar in
France, which now furnishes nearly
one half of the sugar required for
homo consumption, is one of the re-
suits of the Emperor Napoleon lists
scheme for protecting "home indus
tries" 1t had for sometime been
known that the beet contained a
large amount of saccharine matter,
and he encouraged the manufacture
of sugar by giving it every advan-
tage of monopoly. Protective du-
ties were extended to it, even after
the fall of Napoleon, until by the i'm
proved modes of manufacture, an APP
Proclamation to the maximum per
centage Of sugar was produced, at
cost not much exceeding that of pro-
ducing sugar from the cane. The
growth of the beet sugar interest in
France is an illustration Of the far
reaching benefits Of a protective pol
icy. France can now compete with
the cane-growing countries in the
production of their own staple.
Her four hundred and seventy-fve
beet sugar manufactures furnish
profitable employment for thousands
Of laborers, skilled and unskilled
The tortiliziug properties Of the soil
aro not detouora,ed BY the exporta-
tior Of the raw material nor is the
soII suffered TO lie Idle in'this indus
try, thanks to the principle Of pro-
lection.
In the early period of the beet su-
gar manufacture in France, there
were monopolies of the business the
people endured them, in addition to
the burdens of their wars, and the
result is seen now in the iudepen-
dence of France in the production
of beet sugar. The friends of the
protection of home industries are
trying to build up in this country
the multiplicity Of manufactures Of
which II is capable, while the free
traders would keep us in state of
colonial dependence upon English
pauper labor. Chicago Republican.
PEARLS The Revenue ruturns for
1869 received by last mail from City
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