St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27
Glucose.
IN. o. Ledger.

1t is not generally known that many
million pounds of the above named urti-
Gle are annually manufactured in some
OF our great business centres. Glucose
is q molasses or syrup extracted from
common Indian corn. 1t is entirely free
| from all poisonous substances and
contains large amount Of saccharine
strength. 1t has become a powerful
rival to cane sugar in our manufactures
and refineries, for it can be used in the
preparation Of many articles of neccssi-
ty and luxury, thus substituting cane
sugar to an alarming extent. We clip
the following from the January number
of the Cosmopolite:
This Glucose is sold to the manufac-
turers for the following purposes:
t'lrst.-lt Is sold, as was proven be-
fore the Congressional investigating
committees, IL immense quantities to
sugar retiners.
Second-It is sold to all manufactu- =
rcrs of so-callcd syrnps represented as
made from pure sugar.
Third.-lt is sold in immense Quanti-
ties OF candy and all other forms of
confectionery. Instead of buying su-
gar Largely made of glucose, they now
buy the glucose itself and make their
wares direct from it,
Fourth.-It is sold extensively to be
mixed with California honey, it is as
Stimulating in color and in other respects
with that article. 1t is mixed in the
proportion OF at least one gallon of glu-
cose to one of honey, and the combined
product is now not only sold to con-
snmels as honey, but it is also exported
to Europe, where, on account of its
cheapness as well as flavor and other
qualities, it is finding an increased
market.
Fifth.-1t is used in the East in the
manufacture of sweet wines, and it is
used in all liquors requiring syrups.
In naming these purposes to which
glucose is applied, we do not mean TO
say that it is confined so snch use; it
enters into all other productions OF
which sugar is a constituent.
Glucose is manufactured almost Sc
cretly. The process by which it is
made is patented, while only limited
number of wealthy firms are engaged
in its production. One New York house
alone, last year used up over five mil
lions of bushels of corn, and as three
gallons of syrup can be made from one
bushel OF grain, this house produced
about fifteen millions of GALLONS of
glucose syrup, while many other firms
of Botfalo, st. Louis, Chicago and other
cities are busily engaged in its manu-
facture.
AS but very little is known about the
process employed in it's production, so
but little can be said concerning the |
quantity annually made; but we know
that vast amount of capital is invest
ed in the enterprise and millions upon
millions of bushels of corn are yearly
consumed in its preparation, so that
we may safely assume it's proportions
to equal, at least, half the annual SUI
gar and molassas crop of Louisiana.
We cannot say if it graduates readily,
but it is certain that the article called
glucose sugar is produced at the rate of
about six pounds to the gallon of syrup.
Glucose has already become an i'm
oortant factor in our commercial circles.
1t is destined most probably to assume
more significant proportions, and we
see in it a powerful rival to the great
staple of our State. Not that we fear
t will ever be produced in such per-
lection as to supercede the use of cane
sugar, but we do believe that it can be
made so cheaply and in such great
Quantities as to depreciate the value OF
louisiana sugar. Nor is it less signif-
ant that it is principally manufactured
Il the West, a large portion of whose
'eople are bitterly opposed to the es-
tariff on foreign sugars and
would see it entirely abolished if they
ould.