Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-10-25

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drying as follows:
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Mr.. Gennert said that beets coult
not be dried in the sun either ir
Illinois, Maine or Europe; that the
reduction to 253 Is sufficient. Cal
this rate less than four tons oil
fresh beets will make one ton of
dried beets. Eighteen dollars pei
ton for dried beets is therefore
equivalent to little more than
81 SO per ton for the beets as they
ale dug from the ground. Ire.
porter.)
Mr.. Rudisill remarked that John
sons encyclopedia stated that loo
pounds of mangel-wurzels when
dry weigh only fifteen pounds; thai
in September at an average tenn
perature about the same as that
prevailing at the time of the ex-
pertinent in October, 100 pounds OF
| inferior beets at the end of n
| consecutive hours of the natural
drying process weighed only fifteen
pounds.
Mr.. Gennert followed this state
ment with the remark that sugar
beets fourished under the same
cosditions as mangel- wurzels, but
have less water.
Mr.. M. A. Peters, of Santa Ana,
said that he irrigated in April,
planted beet seed in May and with
out further irrigation raised fine
crop Of beets; that under the same
circumstances and on the same
ground corn would have been a
| failure.
A so-called sugar beet from GER
tain locality and one of a lot OF
genuine sugar beets sent.from Ana
helm by Col. w. r. Olden were
compared. The palate could de-
tect no sweetness to speak of in the
so-called sugar beet, but all were
astonished at the excessive sweet.
of the Anaheim beet.
To questions Mr.. Gennert replied
that he had analysed one of the
Anaheim beets in the laboratory
which he had unlocked in his room
at the Cosmopolitan Hotel,
and found it to polarize 13 per cent.
of sugar; that in Germany sugar
beets polarized from Is to Is per
cent; that the average was little If
any over 10 per cent; agreed that
with the best seed, the best man.
agement in planting, cultivation
and in the selection of the time for
harvesting the same, Anaheim soil
might produce q sugar beet that
would polarize IA per cent. average;
agreed with J. HI. Shields that on
account of the uniformity of the
climate here there might be main
tanned from year to year uniformi-
ty in the per centage OF sugar.
Just here S. p. Dswey,o of Los An.
geles city, privately informed youi
reporter that perfectly response
bile party would agree to plant to
sugar beets two hundred acres oil
land that is rich, loose as ashes,
moist enough and free from alkali.
Mr.. Gennert said that last year
10 Germany the price of beets UNI
dried was So 80 per ton paid to the
farmer, and the excise for the
privilege of manufacturing sugar
was SIS. 20 per ton for undried beets;
that much of the land devoted tc
sugar beets in Germany could be
sold at $500 per acre; that entire
farms there for the purposes of beel
culture, meadows, etc., all taker
together, sometimes rented as higl
as $50 per acre.
Mr.. Rudisill asked if crop o
something else could be advanta
geously followed with beets the
same year. Mr.. Gennert doubted
the economy of double annual
crops, the sugar beet being one o
the crops.
Isaac Haylock, of Compton
would like to know how California
soil and climate can be made t.
grow sugar beets. Reply: Plan
rows IS inches apart and the beet
10 inches apart in the rows ant
keep the moisture at q minimum
1t was stated that a certain Cali
fornia sugarie failed under crush
ing litigation.
Senator West apd Mr.. Genner
testified that the Sequel sugarie IL
Santa Cruz, CAL, is u success; tina
last wear middlemen bought tn
beets from the farmers and solt
them to the factory; that this yea
the farmers sell the Deets Direct.
to the factory; that the profits o
: the first and second years were sat
isfactory and that the sugarie il
: more prosperous this year than il
either of the two preceding years
J. H. Shields asked in the nam
of many farmers If it would not b
better for the beet buyer to inspec
and accept the land before tn
l farmer planted the seed, in order b
avoid the consequences of tn
9 wide difference of opinion tina
might subsequently arise as t.
t what constituted soil sufficient
:, free from alkali to produces suga
beet which the buyer-party to tn
r contract would be obliged to accep
and pay for. Mr.. Gennert reptile
that any land that would produc
good corn or barley would produc
/, sugar beets which the buyer part
to the contract would be obliged
accept. pretty fair barley grow
= on pretty strong alkaline soil.-RF
}, POTTERY
Mr.. Shields was chosen TO inves
tigate and report through th
] newspapers the details Of the COS
of cutting and drying sugar beets
Josiah Russell, of Florenc,
- moved that the local committee
y appointed in the first place, and th
IL horticultural Society, to work u
the Fair in the counties of Soutl
ern California and, in the secon
place, to work up the sugar indu
try be now, in the third place, al
pointed to continue to work up tn
1t sugar industry, to hold meeting
Immediately, and to send in thel