, 1874-09-23
THE "AVIS"
CRAFTSMANSHIP, ST. CROIX,
WEDNESDAY, 23RD 1874.

CALIUlCGu at MT. IuIClllSOu 5 store IN THIS
town. There are samples Of Beet, Porto
rico, Demerara and St. Croix Sugars.
The first is a most beautiful specimen of
saccharine purity, the Portorico and Deme-
rara are good current articles, but the SAM
pie from this island tells its own tale of
a dry year and the want of improved
manufacture. The Doctor writes a letter
10 the Avis about the Beet-Sugar Facto.
ries in Denmark, and the extensive use of
beet sugar in Germany, Belgium and
other countries, which he has been in d
position to verify during his travels. 1t
would appear from his remarks that it
is not vet as much used in Denmark. It
will be our own fault if we allow it ever
to be introduced to the same extent there as
it is in other countries, if the money can be
raised for establishing the factories here.
Cur correspondent has lately spent
some time among Germans, and never
seen any other than beet sugar of
the finest quality. He never saw
cane sugar there in any form. With
regard to the old opinion lis it o
prejudice p that beet sugar is not as
sweet as cane sugar, he quite correctly re-
marks that refined sugar is refined sugar,
whether made from the cane or the beet,
and it will, " in our refined tines soon
supersede the unrefined. What. is requir-
ed, then, for the cane to compete success
fully with the beet, is better manufacture.
as it possesses all the advantages in point
of saccharine richness.
The question might be asked why costly
factories are erected for the manufacture
of the beet, as it is known that its sac.
charine value does not admit of successful
competition with the cane, when the in
dustries are put on the same footing. But
here the agricultural question of the ad-
vantage Of the rotation of crops operates
in favour of the beet. 1t is required that
the land should be under continuous cul-
t|ivation, and the beet crop is taken instead
of following, which system together with
heavy manuring is found to be advantage
Gus. The Doctor gives q review OF the
operations of the two Factories in Den
mark, of which the one at Odense may be
called a Central Factory, as it manufac-
lures the beets grown by the farmers
around. The Laaland Factory has bought
more than 5000 acres of land, and grows q
good portion Of its W beets. Those
not grown on its own lands are
generally bought for cash; and the refuse
is used for fattening purposes. The idea
that the beets were not good last year,
owing to the effects Of a cold and wet sum-
mer, has proved mistaken. They have
been excellent when kept in pits. On the
Factory's properties there is this year
planted such a quantity ofbeets, that sim
Div to weed for this summer, 100 Swedish
women have been imported. For sale
they only manufacture a handsome hne'
crushed sugar, such as shown IN the sam
ple. A more ordinary sort is not adver-
tised for = sale, but sold to the labourers
and chocolate factories. The first-men-
toned is sold at % skillings per 10. Mus
covado is still sold for consumption under
the name of"St. Croix sugar. but it does
not come from st. Croix. It comes from
Po1torico. care the times then so entire
" changed" our correspondent asks,
that St. Croix, which always produced
better sugar than Portorico. must now
weld the palm to that island?"