Daily Republican., 1880-02-17
Delaware ana she Beet Caiturs

AAsVAo PAoAs w sho PAVNuoOAs AhOAo An
no Disgusting this self evident truth.
At Riverside which Is really a part Of
Wilmington, some thirty gentlemen,
y yesterday representing over o., 600, 900
In capital looked at the beet taken from
the ground in its raw state, and before
eaving the place they saw the main
portion Of the beet converted into =
pulp for cattle feeding while the sacha-
rine juice went of in another direction
and was converted into thick molas-
ses ready for crsytalizing into sugar.
Bat in addition to these before their
eyes were the hogshead Of sugar that
had been made from the sacharine Juice
thus extracted. Moreover these thirty
gentlemen stood and looked upon the
process Of separating the chrystalissd
sugar from the refuse fluid and they
held in their hands samples Of bright
sweet tasted sugar ready for the re-
hnery from which it will emerge the
finest grades Of loaf, granulated or pull
verissd sugar. This was Delaware su-
gar. The seed Of the beet was planted
in Delaware soil, cultivated by Della
ware farmers, carted to the railroad
station ty Delaware teams, loaded in
Delaware CARS, shipped on a Delaware
railroad to . beet sugar mandatory
by the side Of ma estic Delaware river
owned by Delaware people, and
converted into sugar by Delaware labor,
The trial was but an experiment bat
1t has been successful experiment not
in the amount Of money that has been
made BY it, but in the demonstration o.
the fact that Delaware cannot only raise
her own sugar bnt enough for thous.
auds more beyond the State where the
soil is not adapted to the culture Of the
beet.
Those gentlemen who met at River.
ride yesterday are SO we'll satisfied with
the outlay Of money they have made
that they are prepared to make long
stride forward and enlarge their works
to the capacity of the consumption of one
hundred and fifty :or two hundred tons
Of beets day during the beet sugar
making season which lasts about sixty
days. The consumption Of beets dur
ing the past season was only twenty
i've tons per day. But this determine
tion on their part requires cooperation
on the part of the farmers or beet pro-
ducers to make it successful. Sugar
cannot be made without the beets. II
they hesitate about embarking in the
enterprise, and through timidity me-
glect to 60 into the beet culture they
lose a grand opportunity and a sure
one Of making money. There may not
be exactly millions in i: for such bonan-
zss do not often come in the farmers
way but that there is more than a com
potency in it cannot be doubted.
Mr.. 4. C. Fennimore, of Appoquini-
mink Hundred, the past season raised
twenty-six tons of beets to the acre, for
which he received four dollars u ton
delivered at the nearest railroad sta
tion. There were one hundred and four
dollars from a single acre of common
land. The bsets required no more cul-
tivation than crop Of corn, and they
will follow after crop Of wheat with
out manure. No other crop paid Mr.
FenpimOre as well as his beet crop.
The same acre might have produced
thirty bushels of wheat at 81. so bush
Ell, making in gross s4j. FROM this
must be deducted the cost Of lie seed
wheat, and the lator, and the
expense Of marketing the crop, which
would reduce the gross receipts of the
acre TO $40. Allowing for railroad
freights the beets from the same acre
netted Mr.. Fenrimore at least $50.
This made his beet crop worth $50 an
acre more than his wheat crop. He
might have raised 50 bushels Of corn
on that same acre at so cents a bushel,
making $50, but this would leave $50
in favor Of the beet crop. Mr.. Fenni-
more is one Ct Dtlaware's most success
full peach growers, and though he
was 20 lucky in the past as to have
a good crop OF peaches when nobody
else had aty, take it on an average
through all tn years of peach growing
in which lie has teen engaged, his
peach crop never yielded half as coed
an average as last years beet crop.
With proper care the beet Ia easily
cultivated. The ground should not be
too rich but it must be in good order.
No select garden spo.s are required,
and if planted III the propAr season no
fear need be apprshend7d Of early
1rosts--indeed they seem TO thrive best
under moderate frosts. Tke soil of
Delaware 8 adapted 10 the culture of
bseta--even NeS Jsrsey cannot rival
1t. The qu' stion Is will the farmer
raise the beetsl Some have failed dur