The daily gazette., 1879-01-01
sue.r AauItcrssiens.


The Anglo-Saxon population Of Amer
lea and England, acc 1rdipg to DIR. Let
heby's publication "On Food" annually
consume Al pounds Of sugar per head !;
that Of France, Italy, Spain, Belgium,
Portugal and Switzerland, ~ pounds per
head Of Germany, Denmark, Holland
and Austria, pounds per head the re-
naming portion of Europe, 8 pounds
per head per annum. Sugars are either
sucrose, identical with cane sugar; or
glucose, which is identical with grape
sugar or the white Jumps Of sugar found
In raisins, or dried grapes. Glucose may
be manufactured also from starch, woody
fibre, as well a. from old cotton, linen
rags, paper, sawdust, &C., the time and
difficulty of converting most Of these
foreign materials, being the only preven-
ton OF common supply from such
source. In France. no wever, the manu-
facture from starch has been performed
for some time and q similar process is
being introduced into the United States.
When the chemist succeeds IN boiling
starch with diluted sulphurio asid with
out the introduction Of q surplus Of
water, then bushel OF corn will make
twenty-five pounds Of cane sugar. In
France, when two tons Of starch are N
be converted into sugar, 80 barrels Of
water and about eighty pounds Of sui
phuric acid are placed In . vat and the
whole heated TO 2l2 degrees by forcing
In steam. 200 pounds OF starch then
mixed with 20 gallons Of water and stirr-
cd up and four or Ave gallons OF this
mixture are run into . vat. The tenn
perature Is kept up to the boiling point
oil the while and successive charges Of
starch are run in till the whole amount 10
converted into sugar. The steam is then
shut of and chalk is added in sufficient
quantity to neutralise the sulphuric acid;
but II too little chalk 10 used free sui
phurio acid will be LETT In the contents Of
the vat. The sparingly soluable
sulphate of lime In formed and much Of
It settles to the bottom of the liquid; the
clear liquid il drawn off and svaporated
By Steamboat until the proper density Of
syrup is secured or until it will crystalze
on cooling and standing for several days,
according as to whether syrup or sugar
is desired. Iron pipes in the vats are at
tackled by the sulphurio acid, and form
copperas in the syrup. Chalk, when in
sufficiently introduced, causes free sui
nhuric n id in tha avruo
Prof. K. q. Kedzie, NJ. D., of Lansing,
Mich, in an able report on the subject,
says that one part of lime will destroy
more than SIX times its weight of sugar,
40 far as any sweetness Is concerned
and, the compound Of lime and sugar 10
bitter. One pound of cane sugar has the
same sweetening power as two and a
half pounds of glucose. Hence, the
manufacturers, by adulteratiDg sugars,
not only cheat by compounding injurious
materials, but they cheat enor nously ia
the sweetness.
Hon. WIN. g. LcDuc, Commissioner of
Agriculture at Washington, ID. c., in July
1877, has contributed a pamphlet of Al
poets of the cane sugar industry in this
country. He quotes Bouchereau as au-
thority for saying that the production of
sugar in Louisiana was 52S, ,321 800 pounds
in lS6l-6l, while In 1867, it was only
100 0,6l2,570 pounds. In 1876, according to
the Commissioners compilation, the
total consumption OF sugar in the U. s.,
was 63o,369 gross tons, of which 56i 1853
tons were imported of cane molasses,
total consumption, AZ, 800 ,504 gallons, of
which 80, 459, ,5O4 gallons were imported.
In 1876 each person in this country con-
sumed, on the average, 80 pounds Of su-
gar. In the seventeen years ending with
1876, Cuba furnished this country IN
round numoers. 1000 900 900 pounds OF
sugar; other Spanish possessions 200 ;.
OOO,OO0 pounds; French West Indies and
Guiana, 5O,0OO,0O0 pounds; Brazil, 40.
100000 pounds. Dutch East Indies, 25,.
Co., 900 pounds; British possessions In
America, 5O,OOO,OOO pounds; Sandwich
Islands, 10000, 900 pounds. In 1876 Louis.
lana produced 100, ,672, $40 pounds of sugar
and 12,04 ,108 gallons of nolasses. 1t i,
demonstrable fact that the capacity O
the sugar belt OF the U. s.. is sufficien
not only to fully supply domestic need
but also, under proper stimulants, t,
create u trade OF export.
Louisiana sugar lands extend from six
ty miles below New Orleans to two hun
5 dred miles above, on both sides of tn
Mississippi river. NJ. Bouchersau state
f that in the season of 1S76-77. 1O4, ~
acres Of cane ground yielded on an aver
= age 1,8l7 pounds OF sugar and LA gallon
Of molasses per acre. Mr.. M. s. BrinQiel
a planter, estimates that the average are
annually cultivated, 100, 900 acres, woul
yield, annually, SS5,eOO,OOO pounds {
e sugar and 52,500,0 GOO gallons of molasse
d Much of the Cult coast from Florida
= Texas is adapted to sugar culture. Sugs
@ cane very we'll thrives on the sea Goa
n of South Carolina and Georgia. Loui
fri lana gives l 200 to 1900 pounds of sug,
IS TO the acre West Indies, 5000 to go,
"a pounds East Indies, often 1000 pound
Commissioner LeDuc's statement al,
. says TIT is evident that if the area
70 sugar-plantlng be very widely extend.
er in the adapted regions, Including Il
~ sugar-belt Of Louisiana, Texas and Flo,
ne da, there must be wise innovation upe