Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-07

Some interesting information is given by
the New York Post concerning the manufac-
turo Of glucose and its mixture with sirup
and sugar. In the course of a lawsuit brought
in Batavia, n Y, to determine the owner
ship in certain shares in the Buffalo Grape
Sugar Company, recently, it was shown that
the profits of the business amount TO about
S1OO0,O0O a year upon n capital OF 500, 600
Enormous quantities of grape sugar or glu-
cose are sold and the business has Mt least
doubled every year for the last five years, un-
til Mt present all starch factories turn out
more or less of it.
Tho history Of the product is this In
1867 a German chemist named Goesling ar
rived in New York with n secret process for
producing sirup from corn ut 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 bone
black and boiled to any desired consistency.
The patent for this process was sold to
company called the Union Sugar Company
for $500, 900. The company at once erected
works and began operations, but before the
first batch of strip was turned out DR..
Goesling died. When the first lot of the new
strip was produced its appearance was excel
lent, but it was found that it would not
'stand," rs the strip men say that is, it
waxy mass which was unstable. DR.. Goes
ling apparently forgot to tell the company his
method of making the strip stand. He had
known some method Of doing this, but the
secret died with him. After several costly
and Intellectual attempts to solve the difficulty
the company gave up business, having lost
about 81 900, 600.
Before the New York company bought DR..
| Goesling's patents, Buffalo company had
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! city. They met with the same difficulty
which the Union Sugar Company experienced
their product candied. But instead of Civ
ing up the manufacture they went to work
| to find out to what use the candied glucose
| could be put. In the first place 1t was found
! that the glucose strip, if mixed with low
grade black molasses, made an excellent
| golden strip, which, while not so sweet as
refined Cuba strip, was rs good in appear
ance and sold as well As glucose sirup
could be produced for half the cost of sugar
strip, the saving effected by mixing the two
was enormous In the next place, if glucose
strip was allowed to candy and harden, it
! was found that it could be ground up and
mixed with low grade dark brown sugars,
the mixture having the appearance and quail
| tiles of refined light brown sugar, with the
exception that it was not so sweet refined
sugar. From small beginnings the business
| OF the Buffalo company grew TO importance.
| The glucose could be produced from corn n.
the rate of thirty pounds of glucose, worth
| three aud a half cents a pound, from one
bushcl 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 in vast quantities, but the reiners
are not the mixers. The mixers are middle
men in the trade. They buy both pure sugar
and the glucose, and mix to suit themselves.
Several firms do this sort of BUSINESS exclu-
sively, calling the product new process sug-
ars" About twelve per cent of the sugar
sold in Wall street is glucose or grape sugar.
As the value Of the sugar refined in New
York aud Brooklyn is about SGO.OOO,O COO a
year, it follows that about $1,000, 600 worth
of glucose must be bought and sold by the
sugar and strip trade. The dealers are gen
orally ayerse to giving information on the
subject, but one firm whose business is sell
ing sirups admitted at once that glucose strip
was used in their business, and contended
that il was Legitimate use of natures prod.
ucts, 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 ject,
secuted the notion that glucose in sugar is
unhealthy. He says glucose is found in
nearly every article of food.