Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-11-16
Sds y ssuSslss 8 gsss'a.
other Tsstimouy About Sugar
Making,
IAnaheim aazette.l

Public attention being now d.
rected to the beet-sugar mill at AL
varado, in Alameda county, Mr.. III.
r. Hanna, of the Gazette Office,
wrote to O friend at 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 COM
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 $3.50 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,
hve rows at time, eighteen inches
apart.
Tie Company here has contracted
for 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 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, 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
gloomy forebodings in regard to the
lture of the cane.sugar business.
10 New Orleans Times has the
lowing doleful utterances:
nm three to three and a half
's of brown, clammy sugar is
Fable result from one hund-
''pds of cane which ought to
tSlded seven pounds or more
giightest and purest granu-
vanr. Anybody who puts
s,-,;ons into the heads of our
uisn who lulls them into de-
tion, ans of false security,
sources their progress, or by
irrefrasasures of ephemeral
nrova ;cTipple the financial
prose hioeople, is the worst
struggle. planters can now
bodings OF
ra.dv sea ich might have
~ en-, if not entirely
hoase' III nopoly of sugar.
he Is instaldivided amongst
happier expand. There will
son of n; sides a southern
-. III more rapid in
cult W saAnything which
these nerve it; because:
ple have hanited amount Of
tradit;onalpsal of the rising
.,'D.- sugar-making,
tne Denoclrcely hope to at
are the Jonal hereafter.
and IL they Or the manufac-
~ t,,-oy, agar has reached
would get arom nine to ten
seen that yethat compared
that your lstry appears in
click" you aot;on ,ts oVvaEei w ;eh al,
TO enter q phare alike, the
visor and ttlstry is especial
attitude whressional legis-
naots 70 w;rt all machinery
poo's W VIE of duty.
ON TEfor cultivating
too that even
nno ost careful culti-
Ing men OF t to them with
utmost confinount of costly
both in the
'ne ways to be had
dwell upon best methods
The combimg and storing
Robinson w,ed questlohs as
beaten by md md ascertained
seven thousatelligent labor
standing thyork upon the
Might in Thy farms in the
was left by % Of % Grain east
equivalent tpelled to look
sand votesIe profitable to
dained for a..
thousands reoent date.
Democrats sheen cultivated
polls. All Eschol Brook
to the aide Maryland, from
Germany. The
was seen, M per cent. of
cessful. Gnd German
lenoe. the have offered to
.hi-a farm ing sugar, and
len if q guaran-
the vote recleast two thous-
cursor of Implanted yearly
can holt W will contract
nomination. So %' 'o of boats oI
ana truthlbspects are that
that was e'e in operation
showed bet, next years
the Democ
demonstTatnt of the Re-
with the ojuched the true
campaigu. ,nch Republic by
so.,ad Kes. The Republic
io"seo' - said he, "let
awav anv -. --:.t q,