Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-05-03
FIRST EDITION.
The Beer sugar Experlment.

STATEMENT OF ITS PRoGHEss TO THIS TIME
174 PACKAGES OF SEED SENT oUT-NExT
sTGPs.
To the Editor of the Commercial:
Deeming it of interest to those who have
taken part in the sugar beet experimental
know of the progress made to this time, May
Let, 1876, it may be stated as follows: Eight of
the best varieties of sugar beet seed have
been imported, Of which, the Quidlinber-
ger, Silesian, and Imperial, are from Ger
many, with four others, the Vilmorin, and
Imperial, Breslau, and Collect, from France,
and one, Carter's Prize Nursery, from Eng
land.
174 packages OF seed have been distribut-
ed, each containing,over 400 seed, sufficient
to plant 400 or 500 square feet. These have
been sent to 124 persons, 53 of whom are
in New Castle Co.. % in Kent, 18 in Sussex,
and 18 in Salem Co., New Jersey, the bal
ance to other States.
This number is being added to daily, and
if each person receiving the seed plants il,
and produces fair crop, it will give an am
Pile supply to make the test one OF great
value. A native Delawarean, who has been
sugar manufacturer for many years, and
deeply interested in this experiment, and
especially in its connection with the
State Of his birth, says in let
ter to the writer think your
plan good one, and have no doubt of
favorable result; empress the farmers
with the necessity of deep cultivation, (the
best sugar beets extend about 16 in. below
the surface, and have them to carefully
measure the lot planted. You can then de-
termine very accurately the value per
acre"
A series of articles will be published dur
ing the season, on the whole subject of
beet sugar, showing the rapid growth.
and reduced cost, as we'll as large
profits accrued, and also the in
mense advantage that has resulted to
those countries and people who have estab-
lished this industry amongst them-to the
farmers who have pursued it, as well as
the numerous Industries connected directly
and indirectly with it, and which it is fair
to presume we can realize by pursuing a
similar course.
Much, in fact all, of this present expert
ment now depends on those farmers who
have undertaken to produce the beet from
the seed furnished. The result is in the
future, the establishing of this great in
dustry amongst us, with all the attendant
| benefits depends on the intelligent appre-
citation of its value to and by each indiyid-
ual, and to the nation by the patriotism
that seeks to establish its prosperity on a
solid basis. We have no Napoleon here to
| oHer premium OF 1,UUUuOu lIancs as
was done in France, to stimulate this
industry, but we have the certainty from
which there is no escape, that if we con-
| tinue to use as much sugar in the future
as we have do le in the past and are now
doing, (being nearly as much in cost as our
bread, J and do not produce it at home in
greatly increased quantities the prostration
and impoverishment of the country will con.
tinue sp3 groR worse. until VIC are urabls
to buy SO much.
In the next article will be historical
sketch of the discovery, gradual introduct-
ion, slow development for many years, and
recent rapid Improvement and great in.
crease of the production of beet roo
sugar" The advantages of it's introduction
in some of the departments in France, es
pecially in the greatly increased crops, al
we'll as the extraordinary increase IN sheer
and cattle, will be shown. L. P.