The Republican journal., 1881-01-13

by the New York Post concerning the
manufacture Of glucose and its mixture
with strip and sugar. In the course Of 4
lawsuit brought in Batavia, n. T.. to de
ternine the ownership in certain shares
in the Buffalo Grape Sugar Company, re-
Gently. it was shown that the profits OF
the business amount to about 81 900, 600
a year upon a capital OF S400, 900. Enor-
nous quantities Of grape sugar or glucose
are sold. and the business has at least
doubled every year for the last five years
until at present all starch factories turn
out more or less Of it.
The history Of the product is this; In
i~61 a German chemist named Goesling
arrived in New York with a secret pro-
cess for producing siTup from corn at a
small cost. The corn was first made
into starch, which, after treatment with
sulphuric acid, was run through marble
dust in order to extract the acid, after
which it was purified with boneblack and
boiled to any desired consistency. The
patent for this process was sold to a COM
pany called the Union Sugar Company
for S50O0O0. The company at once
erected works and began operations, but
before the first batch Of sirup was turned
out DR.. Goeslng died. When the first
lot ot the new strip was produced its APP
pearance WAS excellent, but j, Was found
thar it would not 'Stand." as the sirup
men say: that is, it solicited and candied
becoming solid, wdXy mass which was
unstable. Or. Goesling apparently for
got to tell the company his method of
l,o In,
some method of doing this, but the secret
dice with him. After several costly and
Intellectual attempts to solve the difficulty
the company gave up business, having
lost about 81 0O0,0OG
Before the New York company bought
Dr. Goesling's patents, Il Buffalo company
had purchased the right to use his pro-
cess in that city. They met with the
same difficulty which the Union Sugar
Company experienced, their product can
died. But instead OF giving up the man
utactWc, they went to work to find out
to what use the candied glucose could be
put. In the first place it was found that
the glucose sirup, if mixed with low grade
black mOlasses made an excellent golden
Slrup, which, while not so sweet as refined
Cuba srup, was as good in appearance,
and sold as well. As glucose sirup could
he produced for half the cost of sugar
strip, the saving effected by mixing the
two was enormous. In the next place, if
glucose sirup was allowed to harden, it
was found that it could be ground up and
mixed with low grade dark brown sugars,
the mixture having the appearance and
qualities Of refined light brown sugar,
with the exception that it was not so
sweet as refined sugar From small be-
ginnings the business Of the Buffalo COM
pany grew to Importance. The glucose
could he produced from corn at the rate
Of thirty pounds of glucose, worth three
and half cents pound, from one bush
81 OF corn, besides which the refuse from
each bushel OF corn brought six cents
when sold as stock food
New York sugar merchants admit the
use OF glucose III vast quantities, but the
retiners are not the mixers. The mixers
are middiemen in the trade. They buy
both pure sugar and the glucose, and mix
To suit themselves. Several firms do this
sort Of business exclusively, calling the
product new process sugars About
twelve per cent Of the sugar sold in Wall
street is glucose pr grape sugar. AS the
value Of the sugar refined in New York
aud Brooklyn is about $50, 600 year, it
follows that about - 100000 worth Of
glucose must be bought and sold by the
sugar sirup trade. The dealers are gen
orally averse to giving information on the
subject, but one firm whose business is
selling sirups admitted at once that glu-
coSe sirup was used in their business,
and contendcd that it was a legitimate
use Of natures products, the mixed sirups
being better liked by the consumers than
the pure sirup, which was too sweet to
be pleasant.
Prof. Chandler of the New York board
OF health. who was consulted upon the
subject, secuted the notion that glucose in
sugar is unhealthy, He says glucose is
found in nearly every article of food.
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