The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-05


manufacturers of cane sugar, of which
| the sugar planters Of
RECEIPTS.
Louisiana. sc, $50 $50. $:
| Texas l,6 30I I:
I Florida Observation-Disclosures. Is 2rS3. :.
| Mississippi 1908
! The number of producers of sugar from
sugar cane receiving a bounty was. 6j
TIE, number of producers OF sugar from
| Dcels Observation-Disclosures.
The number of producers of sugar from
|
The number of producers of sugar from
| Total number receiving bounties..... 6,76t
OF the beet sugar factories three in
Nebraska received a bounty OF. 49,. s54. 690. o.
One in Utah received bounty Of -. q, S99 OK
! three Ii California received bounty
|
The California factories produce ed
| S,175,43S pounds: Nebraska factories
2, 134 800; Utah's factory ,094, 900 pounds.
The total amount paid for the maple
| sugar manufactured was only S2,465. "A.
| The largest portion of maple sugar was
| made by those producing less than 500
pounds, on which no bounty was paid.
The sorghum sugar manufacturers
| were paid 500, 1928 bounty for the
manufacture Of 1.136,0S6 pounds of
sugar, this was all made in Kansas. The
number of acres planted to sugar cane in
the southern states was 115, 239. The
yield of sugar cane per acre was Is. l
tons. The average yield of cane sugar
per acre of ground was 2,O9S.6 pounds;
the average yield of cane sugar per ton
of cane was 1855 pounds.
The number of acres of sorghum
roic I'D al
of sorghum per acre was 7.20 tons. The
quantity of sugar produced per acre of
sorghum was $3.50 pounds. The guam
tity of sugar produced per one ton Of
sorghum was 70 pounds. In addition to
this there is about IS gallons of molasses
per acre. There was 1862. so tons of
sorghum produced. The average num-
her Of days when sorghum sugar max
ing was carried on was A.
The number of acres devoted to sugar
beet culture was 7,155; the number of
tons of bee.s used was Y, 500; the aver
age yield in tons per acre was 10. IA: the
sugar made per ton of beets was 1853.
pounds, and the sugar made per acre of
beets was 1,677.S.
These facts show that there is a less
yield in tons per acre, less number of
pounds Of sugar per acre, and a less
number of pounds of sugar per ton from
sorghum than from either beets OF sugar
cane. The expense of cultivating sor-
ghum and getting it to the sugar factory
is less than that Of either sugar cane or
sugar beets. Experiments made during
the summer of 1891 at the government
sugar factory at Medicine Lodge, Kan
sas, by the alcoholic process demon
strated that the quantity of sugar per
ton can be increased over the estimates
here given about 40 pounds per ton,
which will greatly enhance the profits of
making sugar from sorghum.
The sugar production of the world in
tons of 1910 pounds is estimated as fol-
lows:
TOTAL IN TONS
lane sugar :I;......'...-....' 20 .d,3o1
Beet sugar of Europe. .3500,000
Beet sugar of the United States ...-...... 3, 800
Cane and BeetS used. o. 10000
These figures show that there are 931,-
600 tons more of beet sugar produced in
the world than Of cane sugar. OF the
beet sugar the different countries pro-
duce as follows:
AMN'T IN TONS.
germany. l-Uo'Uy1
austria --.........-.-.-..,... a0uuU
rance -..........'.. ..........-...-..-o 3o,UuO
Russia 10000
Belglum lSo,ooJ
ffollanu. 4U,oV0
Other countries. .,oOOO
Little Belgium produced more sugar
last year than the United States. In
1890 the duties on foreign sugar aver
aged about 2.06 per pound. The govt
eminent derived an income Of about
S53, 9S5 ,S73.S5 from the duties on the
sugars imported for the fiscal year 1891.
The value of the sugar imported for the
year 1892 is estimated at $104 ,40S,S1
The advocates of the Mckinley bill |
thought that it would be much less
tax upon the consumers of sugar to re- !
move the tariff of zoo cents pound on
the sugar imported, and protect the !
domestic product by paying bounty of
2 cents pound on the sugar made at
home. BY doing this the people are |
taxed only on one-tenth of the sugar
instead of paying 2.06 cents |
on the nine tenths imported. They are |
thus taxed only about $S,000,000 an.
nually under the Mckinley bill, instead |
of S54, 900, 600, as under the tariff of 1891. |
The cost of factories for making maple |
sugar, or for making sugar by what is |
called the open-kettle process, is not |
very great. but for the profitable manu- |
facture Of sugar from cane, beets or
sorghum by the vacuum pan process it |
is necessary to build large factories and |
put in expensive machinery, and with |
put a tariff or bounty on sugar it |
will be very difficult to get CAPT |
IaliSts to invest In the business. |
Labor is so much cheaper in foreign |
than it is here, that it will cost |
much more to make sugar ia this coun
nv than in other sugar producing |
countries. The sugar business is differ
ent from almost any other kind of |
business in this respect. |
The factories can be run only few
months in the year. 1t will be noticed
hat the sorghum sugar factories were in
operation only about forty four days,
sugar run nearly twice that length of
,ime Four months is probably more
han the average yearly limit of time
my sugar factory can be run.
From the experiments made in the
production of beet, cane and sorghum
ugar. it is evident that this country is
capable of producing all the sugar con-
,umed by the people. If this Can I've
lone, every inhabitant of the United
States will be benefited by so doing.
It would give employment to hun
lreds of thousands of people, would
equire at least two million
ceres of land that Is now
devoted to raising other farm products,
md would thus build up industries that
would not conflict with any that are al
'eady established. By devoting this
arge amount of land TO raising cane.
,eets and sorghum, it would lessen the
amount that is now devoted to wheat.
,orn and other farm products which are
low so low in price, in consequence of