The daily gazette., 1880-07-23
Culture for Beet Root Sugar.

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WILMINGTON, June %, l880.-Hon.
Charles Gibbons-Dear Sir Il have
your favor of Goth, and will take up
your questions in their order.
The soil we find best suited in
Delaware is that light sandy loan
incident to the neighborhood of
Odessa and Middletown, especially
the former, and further down the
State, around Camden and Wyoming.
Our best beets last year were raised
at Odessa, by E. G. Fenilnore, test
ing over 13 per cent. of sugar, with
an actual yield of 18 tons of 2240
pounds to The acre. This paid him
handsomely, and he and his father
have this year about so acres under
contract with us. About Wyoming
the average test of sugar was
IL l0-100 per cent., in 80 separate
contracts; soil about 40 per cent.
clay; is also good for sugar, but
much more expensive 10 work.
TO your second would say that the
average per acre for Lbe whole State was
shade above ten tons, but we fully ex-
pc It an average this year oftwelve tons,
possibly fiaeen, although The last is
hardly probable. We expect this better
re ult This season, as we have made a
be.,er selection ofgrowers, and they are
p lcing their rows closer together (rhis
year 20 inches apart, last year nearly 4C
inches), which will not only grow more
to, but more sugar. In Germany the
average yield is lwentv tons per acre
which we hope to realize here in three
OF four yeats, if we 60 ahead. As to The
price we pay enclosed You a pamph el
ny this mail, sho wing we pay as per TIE
per cent, of sugar in Them, and the prices
we pay This is a departure of our OWL
from the usual way 0. dong it, but we
feel we'll assured it is the on.y true way
10 get sugar in the beet, which, of course,
is what we most desire, as we can &c
readily extract the sugar from 13 pei
cent, bee 8 as from s per cent, at nc
higher cost, and at much more prof', as
it is a we'll known fact that the higher
the per cent, of sugar the smaller the
per cent. of impurities, and from the
additional fact that il Sper cent. bee
have 80 per cent. impurities, those in-
D, titles neutralize an equivalent ofsugal
immediately adjourning them, so thai
we would only realize but per cen
of sugar practically, hence beets small
in size (say 2lbs.) but rich in sugar, are
wanted.
Fourth. Under present information il
would be an impracticable thing for the
farmer to press the juice and send it, {
factory, as the best juice is one of the
most delicate.known and has to be treate
as soon as made with lime and carbonit
acid, and, in fact, the operation must bt
| continuous clear to concentration o.
the juice until it shows at least 20 pei
cent. of sugar in the juice, aud this /:
almost the finishing point. The onl!
thing the farmers can do is to put up
complete establishment, except tn
finishing pan (where it is boiled to tn
crystalizing point) and centrifugal, ant
this is hardly practicable thing, as i
requires a large outlay for machinery
and contrivances. Besides, our exceed
iugly low rates of freight on both beet
and the refuse pulp enable us to work Il
advantage in our present location. Ii w
should be successful this season we hav'
the ultimute idea of extending down th'
State, that we can to better advantage
sell our pulp, but this is in the dim futur'
as vet. This item of pulp is large on
as we make about 43 per cent of thu
original weight of the beet in pulp. Fol
instance, a 200-ron factory (Which hops
10 push over to next Year,, will require
zoo tons beets every "a hours, or say 25,
900 tons for the season, which woulc
make about 1000 tons pulp TO be dis
posed of for cattle food.
This is large undertaking, but from
the fact that we last year sold all ou
pulp, with a strong demand at the ent
Of the season which we could not fill
and with the additional fact that W
already have orders for about 1000 ton
for the veal, when we will not commenc
10 work it until September 10th, make
us feel tolerably safe even with larg
production. This is one serious draw
back under which the Maine Beet Suga
Co., located at Portland, is working, a
in their first season last year, they ha'
about 1000 tons pulp, and disposed O
but about 400 tons, and had to move th
balance at great expense. AS far as W
can see, the success of the manufactuI
ing of sugar from the beet is merely de
4 pendent on the success of the agricul
tural part, and our part, and our farm
ers are SO 10th to attempt new crop tha
we feel we must go into growing ther
ourselves; and if we do this, and 6
through the experimental years of grow
ing them, we shall probably 60 largel
into it, and grow all we need. ! hav
written this hastily, but trust l hav
made point clear to you. Truly ours
A. d. WARNER.