Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-22
Friday Morning, July 22, 1881.
REET SuGAR.


 The people of the United States have paid on an average for the last twenty years about 1 $10O, ,00O, 900 annually for imported sugars. In the opinion of those qualified to speak concerning this matter such an outlay for foreign sugar is entirely unnecessary, and this enormous sum, paid to foreign countries, could be saved and added to the material prosperity of our country by making the product of the beet root supply the place of foreign importations. In illustration of what can be done in making sugar from beets they point to Germany, where, according to statistics recently published by the German government, there were $50, ,s56, 900 pounds of beet sugar made in 1879. France pro- duced in the same year s39 ,sso. .Oo6 pounds i; Austria and Hungary 750, 356, 900 pounds :; Russia and Poland 475, ,25s, ,OO0, and Belgi- um, Holland and other countries 21O, ,oOO, GOO pounds.
 A correspondent of the Springfield. Repu6- Gcoaa, writing from Stuttgart, gives full and interesting account of the beet sugar indus- try in Europe, and especially in Germany. It is found that pound of sugar can be made from ten pounds of beets, besides leaving a good percentage of molasses. Some of the manufactories make ar even better showing than this, the results of their years labor showing that on an average 100 pounds of beet roots of average quality have produced Il pounds of sugar and 34 pounds of molas- ses. To make this Al pounds of sugar and molasses it is found that the whole cost amounts to 434 cents, which includes the value of 100 pounds of beet roots-241 cents which would leave the cost of manufactur- ing the sugar, to say nothing of the molas- ses, at less than two cents 8 pound. Some of the statistics vary triie from these fig ures, but in so small an amount as to make but little difference in the results. Thus it will be seen that good quality of raw beet sugar, including the purchase of the beets, can be and is made for about four cents a pound, and after deducting the value of the molasses, 1t reduces the cost to less than 34 cents. The actual cost is made still less when it is taken into consideration that the residuum, the pulp of the beet after the saccharine matter has been pressed, out of it, has it's market value for feeding cat tie and swine, and also for manure. The German government imposes heavy dd co., zorem tax on the raw beet which the farmer is obliged to pay before his beets go into the hopper. To collect these taxes a government official is placed in every sugar factory who makes full return to the royal treasurer for every pound of beet that is brought to the mill The yearly revenue derived from this source alone is something enormous. By last years returns, over ninety million marks, nearly $25, ,00o, 900, were added to the impe- rial treasury
 The correspondent believes that in the near future the making of beet sugar will be great industry in this country, as we have in the northern States the right soil and eli mate for it. He is told by German farmers who have returned to Germany from the United States that the climate and soil of the northern States are better adapted to the raising of sugar beets than those of Ger many. The soil, they say, is new and fresh and has not been weakened and worr out by the rotation of various crops for the last thousand years. To keep the worn out soil in Germany up to proper stand ard, large expenditures for fertilizers and manures are constantly required which large ly decrease the profits. They also say that the long Indian summer which we have in America and which they do not have in Ger many is great auxiliary, and very impor- tant element in ripening the beet to perfec- tion. If all this is true, and there is no req son to doubt it, it will be surprising if the manufacture of beet sugar is not soon suc- cessfully and extensively carried on in this country. It is very profitable in foreign countries, and though the attempts to make it profitable here have not thus far been strikingly successful there seems to be no in- superable obstacle in the way of ultimate success