Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-11-16
Eos Aaseles Aerala.
Other Testimony About Sugar
Making.
lAnaheim Gazette.l

Public attention being now d.
rected to the beet-sugar mill at AL
varado, in Alameda county, Mr. II.
r. Hanna, of the Gazette office,
wrote to friend at A Alvarado max
Ing certain inquiries, and from the
letter received in reply we take the
following extracts:
The sugar-beets are raised from
seed furnished by the Sugar Conn
pany for 20 cents per pound, under
contract, the price paid this year
being $4 per ton, which Is quite
cheap. The Company will have
to pay 81. so or SIS next year. Farm
ers deliver them (green) at the mill
with tops closely cut off.
Fifteen or sixteen tons per acre
may be considered an average
yield. Rich, sandy soil will raise
twenty tons or even more, but
high and dry ground will not give
eyer twelve or fourteen tons.
They are planted with a machine,
five rows at time, eighteen inches
apart.
The Company here has contracted
sor eleven hundred acres, which
will give them beets enough to run
for six or eight months.
The mill is now using about fifty
tons per day. The beets contain
about IA per cent. of sugar, being
about a barrel of sugar to a ton of
beets. They are turning out some
splendid sugar.
see no apparent reason why it
should not be a success, although
there never has been a successful
sugar mill in the United States. By
successful, I mean one that paid.
Time required for transformation
from beets to sugar is fourteen
hours.
/ notice In the papers several re-
ports from your section of country
by Mr.. Gennert. A mill cannot be
made to pay with sun-dried beets.
Yours truly,
+. B. GRANGER, JR.
The agitation of the beet-sugar
Industry throughout the United
States is alarming our Southern
friends and filling theml with
,Ioomy forebodings in regard to the
lture of the cane.sugar business.
,e New Orleans Times has the
lowing doleful utterances:
,m three to three and a half
's of brown, clammy sugar is
-able result from one hund-
uds of cane which ought to
lded seven pounds or more
'ghtest and purest granu-
ar. Anybody who puts
IONS into the heads of our
who lulls them into de-
ans of false security,
their progress, or by
asures of ephemeral
cripple the financial
people, is the worst
planters can now
ich might have
en-, if not entirely
nopoly of sugar
divided amongst
and. There will
ides southern
III more rapid in
anything which
it; because:
nited amount Of
sal of the rising
sugar-making,
rcely hope to at
i hereafter
Or the manufac-
1gar has reached
ear perfection
rom nine to ten
that compared
Istry appears in
its dotage.
ection which all
hare alike, the
lstry is especial
ressional legis-
all machinery
e of duty.
for cultivating
| too that even
st careful culti-
to them with
mount of costly
austible supply
ways to be had
best methods
ng and storing
ed questions as
ned-have been
and ascertained.
ltelligent labor
work upon the
lhy farms in the
I'm States. AT
ie of grain, east
Ipelled to look
re profitable to
raet is from the
recent date:
been cultivated
Eschol Brook
Maryland, from
Germany. The
per cent. of
md a German
have offered to
ing sugar, and
len if a guaran-
least two thous-
planted yearly
will contract
SIS q ton. Good
tons of beets
ospects are that
g in operation
next years
ent of the Re-
'uched the true
,nch Republic by
3. The Republic
III said he, "let
ortant point is
bust and we'll
la vOurseIf he