Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-11-21
Bps Sugslss gerala.
From the Evening Express.l
|o Sugar Question in Los Angc-
les County.

EuIToR EXPRESS: The farmers
Ia business men appear to be unan-
nous In their opinion that,t have
mar manufactured from beets in
He county, If on ever so small a
1oIo In the beginning, is by far
foferable 10 the shipment of the
Nv material to San Francisco, even
4 : very large scale. This opinion
nds ready expression in the will.
harness to enter into arrangements
produce the beets and have them
Worked up on shares, and thus in
nxurate the cooperative princi-
1o to its fullest extent between the
Hrner and the manufacturer.
Several gentlemen have declared
heir readiness to supply any Short
&Ee Of beets the farmers might not
1lees but so many farmers have
klready engaged for raising beets
&hat the limited quantity which
|the factory will be able to convert
Into sugar could be doubled or
&febled. There will be therefore no
Io1ger any question of the enter
|prlse to be carried on, and no doubt
Mat the sugar factory will be
ready for work by the first day of
|Joly next. The locality will be in
|Gsos Angeles county, but the, exact
place will only be selected after a
|cIose examination of all the ad-
and disadvantages. Many
|localities offer all the requisites to
|0arry on beet-sugar factory sue.
|0osefully, and when the first one
has worked profitably for the first
|eoason, 1t will no doubt be dupli-
|Cated in more than one place In
/ thls county and the adjoining ones.
The system of extracting sugar
which will be adopted in this min
Iature sugar factory will be the diff
fusion process of dried beets; no
other but dried beets will be
worked. The most important part
Of the machinery has been already
ordered In Germany, while the less
Important parts will be made here.
Fifty centals of the genuine sugar.
beet seed have been ordered and
will arrive here early in December,
while another invoice of fifty GEN.
tails will arrive in January next.
THIS will not only supply all the
farmers who contract for the deliy-
~ Of beets with the seed, but leave
3 large surplus with which farmers
will be supplied who wish to give
pugar.beet culture trial in order
70 know what to do another season.
One ton of sugar beets has as large
: feeding capacity as two tons of
mangel-wurtzel.
With ordinary good cultivation
farmers ought to average 20 to 25
tons Of fresh beets per acre, many
may do better; Al tons will be re-
Quired to make one ton Of dried
beets; and as the farmers share
will be about one barrel of sugar
J for every ton of dried beets; and as
= barrel of sugar costs at present
from $50 to S36, every farmer can
Judge for himself whether it will
pay him to produce his own sugar
q not.
A great many people are curious
30 know If the working of dried
beets Is something new. For the
Information of these I will state
that this process was iDaugurated
by Schutzenbach in 1885, and has
been followed in some factories
ever since. Waagbansel has
worked some years nearly two mill
Hon centals OF dried beets. The
capital invested in beet-dryers, and
fuel to work them, has been
enormous; and as beets can be
dried In Southern California in the
sun to perfection, the farmer who
AvAils himself of 1t has, for the first
time, an income from the climate
which, in many cases, he had to pay
for when buying his farm.
My opinion regarding sugar
making from dried beefs Is fully
expressed, and can be found in the
report of the Agricultural Depart
ment to Congress for the year 1868,
after careful study of the question
In Waaghausel, when that factory
was in full working operation with
dried beets; but the drying of beets
In the sun is something new and
peculiar to California.
The machines for slicing the
beets preparatory to drying the
same / have ordered from Germany,
and they will be furnished to
farmers for use free of charge.
Parties who wish information on
any special point not contained in
the above will do we'll to address
the undersigned, who will give
prompt reply.
ERNEST TIr GHNNERT.