Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-01

LOCAL MARKETS.
GAZETTE OFFICE, rOnr Worm, {, TEXAS tx !

GAZETTE OFFICE, Fort WoRTH, TEXAS
March 81, 1881. J
The local market presents no new iatufes
worthy-o OF special mention. The volume oil
trade continues COOS, though there are lew
fluctuations In values, and quotations for the
most part are UNCHANGED. Coffee Is weak and
sugar is quoted l4c oil. Potatoes and onions
are little UP, and the produce market
throughout is firm, sales of produce were
excoptionaly good yesterday, and the nrm oi
spencer Il Tucker alone shipped over n hun
dred crates of cabbage. Eggs snow an au'
vance of 4 C, and the demand Is better. fouI-
Try stlll finds ready sale at fancy figures we
give place to the following clipping from the
Times.DemocIat on the the manufacture OF
beet sugar In England
BEEr SUGAR MAKtSG IN ES6LASD.
The London Times notes Tue recoinmence-
ment of beet sugar mixing IN England Inc
| works ut Laveuham, In Suffolk, where Deet
sugar was manufactured from lSJo 10 ib'd'
have been acquired by q private company Ior
| the purpose Of recommending tue lhau.uy
1 with the advantage of recent and more Geo
| nomicaI processes The company las an an-
thorized capital OF 100000 and includes
many gentlemen OF high standing. The rur-
nose of The company, as explained at n large
L
Now Industry 80 that sugar factories may
soon be dotted about many parts oithe King
dom. I.avenham is chosen for The beginning
because the beet crop is not new to farmers In
that neighborhood. The projectors OF me
company, after four years OF study and es'
ncrinent have reached the conclusion that
racently invented methods of extracting
sugar nom the beet arc sippler and less ex-
,ensiye than those formerly employed, ana
NAV ara confident that the industry VIII be
} yenuueratiye n only II sufficient supply oil
; beet IS forthcoming. Not only has ihefp
b been Improvement IN processes, Dnt III the
) Qualities OF the beets themselves, the expert
, nents of the sugar association oil me |o'i
! yoreiu having resulted ia the dcyeiopmen'
of roots richest In sugar. The plant mas pecl
' so improved as to grow the heaviest wslgh
per acre compatible with the most hfupS
!. quality OF Juice. The present agricultural
d depression In England specially invites Y
o any q experiment. which offers reasonsb'
. chance or profit. About oDe-half the lipvo
q Nn tons OF sugar consumed In tn
% United Kingdom last year wa
made from beet In countries OF Europe d
more fnvorably situated Than England. Ther
= are thought 10 be suitable tracts VI land II
}, England on which The beet sugar indnstr
may bring wealth production similar
that seen IA France and parts OF Belgium,
North Germany and OF russia, German
has Increased It's beet crop In ten years fro.
10 ., 10000 to 5000 tons. The company ohei
twenty shillIngs per tob, delivered, as the
"A price for the root. The yield per acre ma
be safely estimated at from fifteen 10 TWEEN
tons, and the total cost OF cultivation per &C
90 is estimated at 80. A yield oil hfteen 10
ii would make the market value Of the or
81 nbont $40, or yield OF twenty tons abo
"a sl0) The Times suggests that the comPal
20 might probably go shares with the farm'
q IN growing the beet, ths occupier hndl
81 land and horses and the company nndi
manures and manual labor The result
this English experiment win be watci
,ed with interest In this country.