The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-15
Sugar From Beets.
THE NEW INDUSTRY IN AMERICA-TAK-
ING THE PLACE DE CANE SUGAR.
Baltimore Sun Letter. !

Baltimore Sun Letter.
Assuming that drying sugar beets before
milling reduces cost of production nearly
half improves the quality and trebles the
working capacity OF the mill, the supremacy
of cane sugar Is passing away IN this coun-
try, As it has in France, Germany aud Hun
gary Our sugar ports and refining centers
are destined to see great changes. Beet
culture keeps the land in the highest filth,
gives employment to dense population and
refuse feed to millions of cattle. Sugar mills
and refineries create populous villages and
neighborhoods of wealth and refinement.
BY these tokens, with ornate churches, par
sonoges and schoOl-hOuses seen from atar,
the traveller knows that it is a wealthy cen
ter The number of Macadam roads, the
variety of equipages, the superior cottages,
the marked changes III the dress and man
ners of the peasantry, the easy grace OF the
children, the prOfuslon of paint and white
wash all betoken the creative power OF
beet sugaries in Transforming rude and pow
erty stricken places into centers of luxury
and of high civilization. We know Mary
land, Delaware and Jersey, their soils and
climates We never saw water intercom-
munication centering at Baltimore so con-
venient for extensive supplies of dried beets
| bv cheap waterways commanding so wide
| an area of root-cropping soil. Were we
i
| it for all the cane-sugar lands of Louisiana.
| Nor would we hesitate to prOphesy that in
| twenty years hence Baltimore, so sugared,
would outrank New Orleans and the beet
| sugar States would excite the envy of Lou
| isiana Who can behold the wealth created
for France and Germany by this admirable
combination of agriculture, manufacture
and commerce, and for a moment doubt that
your people have wherewith to do likewise
Washington Special to the New York
Evening Post.
i An expert sent by the Department OF
| Agriculture to examine the culture of the
| beet root and its manufacture into sugar, as
| practiced in several places in this country
] has returned to Washington and report:
the experiments to be of a promising char
acter Maine seems best adapted for thi;
work, and in that State admirable progress
has been made. About $50 acres of the
root have been grown this year, and it i:
expected that the refined sugar can be man
| ufactured at cost of between six and sever
| cents, perhaps cheaper. A safe outside es
innate, it is said, gives the cost of produc
ton and manufacture at $40 a ton of th'
roots, from which 100 pounds Of sugar car
he made Beside the crop in Maine, Massa
chusetts has raised this year about 3O'
acres of sugar beet, and there are beside $50
lated patches in Maryland, Delaware, Penn
svlvania, New York and other States. Tn
working of the principal sugar beet-roo
mandatory, at Portland, Me-, is watches
, with interest, as profitable production 0
the root depends largely on the successful
! and cheap reduction of the sugar from tn
beet. The experiments made last year il
drying the beet and subsequently extract
: ing the sugar were not successful in pc
cuniary point of view, and are not hkel.
, | tn he repeated Farmers in the sugar beet
. root belt are giving the subject more an
more attention, and one thousand acres Wi
probably be planted in sugar beets in Mas
sachusetts next year if the work at tn
Portland mandatory is considered sati
factory.