The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1881-04-28
Correspondence OF the Baltimore Sun.
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Latest On Experiments I'm Drying
Sugar-Beets- Great Exports of
Honey OVerstOcks-Or Orders for
Flour Instead Of Wheat &C.,
SAN FRANCISCO, April ~, IFS

Flour Instead of wheat &C.,
SAN FRANCISCO, April IL, 1881.
K. IL. Dryer has, as an experiment,
mIlled 20 tons of dried sugar beets, from
which "a per cent. of water was evapo-
rated in open-air sunshine on the field
ut Los Angeles, 200 miles South. Though
by reasoning 1t seemed the right process
he thought there must be Instrumental,
BILE objection, or The milling of raw beets
would long ago have been abandoned.
But he found these twenty tons milled
so easily, SO cheaply and so perfectly
that he determined TO adopt that meth
cd as soon as he could find a satisfactory
means of drying cue hundred tons of
sliced beets day during the season of
four months. 1t is too late to arrange
for this years crop, SO raw bee.s will be
continued. He doubts that at Alvarado
on the bay Of San Francisco, six degrees
north, beets can be thus economically
dried as at Los Angeles. In rude OPEN
sided sheds, with rude glass covering 10
concentrate the suns rays, 1t seems
practical. But such sheds would cover
a considerable acreage of $500 ground
around his mill, besides inconvenlent
carting from one point of delivery at the
slicing machinery. The point is well
taken. An earl" remedy suggests itself.
Let every farmer dry his own beets,
keep them in stock like hay and wheat,
and deliver as wanted, thus having 10
pounds instead of one hundred to ham
die and transport.
The mill can thus be kept at work,
like q -four mill, twelve months in q
year. This system of business economy
would make fair test between sugar
beets and cane, and beets could not fail
TO win. Besides, other cognate vegeta-
bles have sugar enough to pay when so
treated, viz: Carrots pars nips, common
beets &C., e., mel )ns and their congen-
ers, &c.
Probably this and associate treatment
in the mill would lead to making crys-
tallizable sugar from many vegetables
whose sugar is amorphous when other
wise usually treated. Now comes what
Maryland and the whole Atlantic States
may wish TO study. From several States
Mr.. Dyer has inquiries so have we. All
express INCLINATION to go Into making
beet sugar.
Few ought to expect written answers
to levy such q tax upon the time of ex-
perts. But the Baltimore Sun may de-
sire to circulate the result of q confer
ence with Mr., Dyer regarding sugar-beet
culture in Atlantic soils. Here lands
abound whose soil has more feet in
depth than yours will count In inches.
Setting the pillow two inches deeper gives
recuperation. For years we need no ex-
pense tor fertilizlng. As in Europe you
must manure. But to do it here, at the
great cost Of labor, agriculture would go
into beggary and sugar would not pay.
1t should also be known that shallow
sell compels the beet to make best
growth in the air instead of In the
ground, which diminishes the saccharine
value as you can calculate.
To relieve the market of heavy over
stock % 00O barrels of pure honey have
been shipped to Liverpool and Havre.
Oranges are in equal overstock, without
show of relief. Advices from Liverpool
encourage shipments of -four instead of
gram, provided we have reliable lnspec-
torshlp. This is being done, and relia-
BILE house will be established In England
for additional protection. Smaller
packag of different shape are talked Of
for better stowage, and TO more conven-
lent sale to families and fine confec-
.ioners, without breaking package or
adulterating. By this system California
and Oregon can dispose of wheat at a
living profit, and be able to pay for
freight via Southern Pacific Railroad
and by steamers from Galveston to Mil
ford Haven, England. The feed-stuff re-
tanned here would be all profit, and
would contribute materially as fatteners
to the fertilizers we so much need to re-
pair the waste of overtaxing and impov-
erishing the soil.
Innumerable beds of fuller's earth or
rock soap are being found in California
aud Nevada. ThiG earth has detergent
properties of a searching character, and
Indians prefer 1t to our soap. Its great
weight has been bar to general use.
But factory at Oakland is making an
excellent soap by grinding it fine and in
terworking cocoanut and other oils and
potash. It is specially superior for
cleansing wool, removing stains of tar,
grease, &C., and its use is capable of ex-
tension. Agriculture finds 1t is highly
Insectivorous. In powder the refuse is
fertilizer.
MOVING DAY in New York