The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28
GLUCOSE.
RAPID GROWTH OF ITS MANUFAVTURE
IN FRANCE AND GERMANY.
The Great Number Of MANUFACTURES in Which
1t Can Be Used
The ChicdgO Tribune.

CHICAGO. Feb. 20.-Thc article called glu
cosc has at present attained such commercla
value IN the United States that II is high time
for the public to be informed about the impor
lance of its manufacture. At the time Of it.
introduction IN this country, and for seyera
wears afterwards, it was represented as an artl
Gle injurious to health. Besides this, some O
the earliest manufacturers IN tins country, no
well acquainted with its practical manipula
tens, made failure of it, and consequently
created a wrong impression on the minds o
CAPITALISTS about the success of the undcrtak
ing.
These prejudices, however, commence to LOST
ground rapidly by the erection of more anC
larger factories on account of the steadily IN
creasing demand for the goods, As the differ
cnt forms of glucose are shrouded yet in som,
mystery, it seems, to many persons, the writer
therefore, wishes to explain fully the impor
lance of this great industry, especially for the
corn.growing States Of the West
Glucose is the Latin name for all saccharint
solutions contained in the cereals, in fruits
peas, beans, etc 1t differs from sucrose (cane
sugar in that it forms no crystals, and is Iden
teal with the sugar formed on dried fruits
particularly raisns, from which the sugar thus
formed derives its name of grape sugar
Klrcoff, chemist at st. Petersburg, Russia
was the first to convert starch into sugar This
was IN 1911 1t created at that time, when the
traffic of colonial sugars was interdicted by
Napoleon, such sensation that several factor
les were at once erected in France and Ger
many. The excitement, however, soon subsid
ed after 1t was found that the sugar was much
inferior in sweetness and taste to Cane.sugar
and the invention of the extraction Of pure
sugar from beet.root which. soon followed
thereafter put Il stop to the whole undertaking
Beetsugar, however did not yield palata.
bic strip, All the experiments failed to i'm
prove ii into an article for table use and this
brought to life again the question OF the feast,
bility of manipulating the starch into an un-
cryslallizable srup. Still it was not before
1882 that the eminent practical chemist Payen
commenced to improve upon the first rude pro
cess of the conversion Of starch into sugar and
strip He was followed by Musculus and Du.
brunfault and these three men may be regard
ed as the founders of this enormous industry
The researches which they made were followed
by the most astounding success. They pro
duced a slrup In color and taste even superior
to canesirup 1t did not possess the powerful
sweetness OF the latter, but it had the great adj
vantage of being not liable to crystalize.
This result gave at once new life To the
abandoned enterprise. Factory followed fac
tory throughout France and Germany. Better
ana improved machinery and methods were
discovered continually. The sugar, first a
brown, bitterish product, became a pure white
and sweet article, and was found to contain all
the elements for the amelioration of beer, wine,
and vinegar. 1t was also found that the sac
charine principle could be checked, and the
strip turned into gummy substance, equal
IN its elements to the best quality OF gum-ara-
bic
In 1888 France and Germany counted nine
teen factories in full operation, and with a
steadily increasing demand The erection of
new factories and improved methods kept on
undated, and in 1867, at the time of the Paris
Exposition, there were working on the Cont.
nent of Europe siXty.seven glucose factories
In 1873 there was an increase of fifteen more
which made a total of eighty
four factories. Ii we consider that the great
bulk of the enormous amount turned out daily
is grape sugar and gummy glucose, we may
make some estimate Of the great traffic in Eu-
rope Of these two articles The demand for
table sirups in Europe is very lightin compar-
lson with that in this country. Seven-cighths
of this production is there used for manufaC
turing purposes.
The principal forms INTO which glucose is
are rs follows: Glucose as su.
gar, called grape sugar" glucose, rs dense
gummy sirup, called glucose" glucose, rs a
table strip, called starch sirup''
The starch is also transformed into dextrine,
in the form of gum-arabic and um-senegal,
and also as lelgum, so called in England, for
the cotton factories
The special uses for the two first named ar
Iicles are AS follows: Brewing confectionery,
vinegar, wine,making, truitpreserving, honey
dlstiling, fruit and medical SIR
ups, cordials, tobacco manufacture silk dyes,
and erhangngs. In fact the purposes for
which these articles are useful are ever inCreas-
ing, and therefore insure a ncver.failIng de
mand.
All the productions Of glucose. when prop
erly made, are pure, wholesome, and healthy,
the best part of the starch Strong
and delicate persons, and the slck.room and
The nursery can use it rs safely as any other
sugar compound. LiebIg, the great chemist,
has analysed 1t IN all its forms for use in food
and drink, and, with many more eminent chem
sts IN Europe, confirms that its use can be
.aiely recommended Ifthe article contained
my deleterors substances II never would have
been tolerated for any culinary purposes in
Europe. Neither is it regarded as an adulter
alton. II Is purchased "a any other needful
ingredient IN the preparation of food and
lrlnk. III preserves and improves in taste ana
appearance even the dain,iest swee,meat at the
most refined table.
am now coming TO the introduction of glu-
lose IN the United States In the fall of 1865,
when residing in New York City, | received a
ettcr from one of my friends in France, a
of glucose, by which he advised
me of having shipped akeg of his white, dense
glucose, with request 10 compare his product
with the best article made IN this country He
wished to know what progress the business had
made in the United States The sample glu-
lose which arrived was an excellent article,
and at once took steps tn investigate the mat
Ter.
To my utter surprise, no glucose could be
Iound for comparison. The article was aciu-
Ally 50 little known that the wholesale confec,
lioners declared they had never heard even Of
The name. then commenced 10 work over