Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-02-18

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Tho Augusta Herald gives an IN.
tcresting article on the planufarttlre
uf Beet Sugar from the pcn Of Nr.
+. +. Iloughton. He states that tile
French, Germans and Russians mar.
ufacture at home nearly all the sugar
they consume while we Americans
who use ten times as much az tLa
French and Germans and s,sensy
times as much as the Russians, nos
sessed, too, of such broad and fertile
lands, are obliged to send To the ;rop
les for this Injury: paying sueI,
enormous transportation charges,
that gallon Of molasses costing In
Cuba ten or twelve cents, costs on
the New York dock tifty ccnts-ard
sugar In proportions.
lie farther states that to raise an
acre OF cane II requires 172 days af
adult labor, while an acre of bee;s
needs "a, and much Of that may be
prepared by children. The cost of
growing nm acre of beets Ia so. "a.
and the average yield from 10 To 20
tons.
The soil for beets should be loose,
Tree from stones, aud not too moist,
small amount of lime In the soil
also advantageous. Newly cleared
land is not suitable the first year for
beets, but should be prepared for
them by crop of wheat or some
other grain.
The land should he ploughed deep.
ly once or twice In the fall, and welt
turned up for the frost to disiniggra,e
the soil well narrowed In tile sprinr.
when manure should be literally
and evenly distributed and well
ploughed in--harrow again and roll
with heavy yoller, and the field il
ready for the seed. which should ba
the White Silcsian variety. .....
Before planting IL should be soaked
I'm water about twenty.iour hours,
and piled In heaps until signs OF ger.
mination appear. when it should lie
rolled In fine 6oneblack and sowed
In regular rows, so that the plants
Will be about fifteen or eighteen
inches apart when grown. Care
should be taken to keep the roots
well covered, as the growing above
the surface IL poor In sugar
When harvested they should bc
ploughed up, carefully topped, and
placed In trenches dug for that pur-
purpose.
A beet sugar factory should be situ-
ated where there Is good soil, cheap
LABOR and fuel, and an abundance OF
pure water. There Is probably no
state better adapted to this industry
than Wisconsin, aud it IL to be hoped
that the enterprise Of It's citizens viii,
be successfully exerted and rewarded.
AT present there are but two fac
tories of any Importance In the
United States--one at Chatsworth.
III, anu the other at Fond lu Lac,
Wisconsin. .. =
The cost Of factory capable of
working l6O,OO lbs. of beet daily
would be from $60, 900 TO S7u, 600. ALI
the machinery necessary can ae pro-
cured In this country, one firm.
phia, making a speciality OF sugar
machinery, and who would prahnhly
furnish estimates to Interested pai-
ties.
The skilled labor required for n
factory of the above capacity. work
Ing tile product of 500 acres, would
be q manager, sugar boiler, deftcator.
fiiterman and engineer, and alaer
hands required needing no uret ious
experience.
The profits OF the business may be
approximately calculated as follows:
Sugar from 100000 ms. beets f,oo dav.
run at per cent, sugar 10 per n. ....a.. si4ioon
xa,mOV1 pn bs pulp, 1c .................. :. aTuo
1000 gallons molasscs at taJc,............. 1000
sl1T,ao
Annual expense and interest. say ,........ 7oooo
Leaves net profit Of say............... TT,ooo
OF course n small establishment
may be put up mt less expense, but
one of this size would pay better.
There Is no better time than the
present to commence such opera
tions, as the presen troubles In Cuba
viii prevent our drawing our
supply from that island. Havana
papers are now constantly predicting
that common brown sugar will bring
forty cents a pound the coming sea-
son. There Is now plenty Of time TO
form stock companies and have fac
tories running before next fall, when
sugar will probably have reached q
fabulous price.
There Is still another source from
which sugar may be derived; the
comron pumpkin, which contains
about four per cent. of sugar, which
after refining is equal to the best
The rav sugar has n slight but not
unpleasant flavor OF melon, The
process of manufacturing IL Identical
with the beet, and i'm some localities
might perhaps be succ essfully car
ried on. There are now several fac
tories I'm Hungary which use the
pumpkin exclusively.
The amount Of beet sugar manu-
factured In Europe In 1868 was $780,
600 tons, as follows:
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