Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-03-23
Rect SOLAR INDUSTRY.

The Production Of Sugar Bsets In Ger
many and This Country Compared and
Discussed.
From the san Francisco Call.
AZ the time approaches for the absn.
donment Of stimulation Of the beet sugar |
industry in Germany by premiums and
bounties, much interest 10 taken in the
question whether the industry will main |
tain itself unAided. All bounties are to be
discontinued on July 81, 1897, after
century. On July 81, 1892, they
were reduced, and provision was
made for their further reduction
on July 81, 1896. Up to the present
time these reductions have only slightly
checked the business. In 1894 the
number Of sugar factories in operation
was 1877; in 1892 80 it was 40l. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether the total aboli-
ton of the bounties will be followed by
more serious effects. Thus far the acre
age planted in beets tends rather to in.
crease than diminish. The number Of
hectares go used in 1892 50 was 1852 .Ol5,
about 1000 acres, a. against 336, 454,
about 1876, 900 acres, in 189l-92.
The effect OF the Bismarck system has
been to treble the production Of beets in
twenty years, and nearly to double the
home home consumption Of sugar. In
1S72.73 Germany raised 1928 900 tons OF
beets in 1892 90 the crop was 9,8l1 900.
In 1928 the home consumption Of sugar
WAS POS, 339 tons in 1892 90 1t was SOL.
$40 tons. simultaneously the quantity
of sugar extracted from . given
quantity Of beets has largely in
creased. In 1872 70 100 pounds of beets
yielded 81 pounds of raw sugar; in
1892 3 the same quantity yielded ll.9S
pounds. The increase is due partly to
J improvements in the quality Of the beets,
increasing the volume Of saccharine. and
partly to improvements in the manufac.
, ture, by which the loss Of saccharine in
reduction has been minimized. The cost
of refining has been 30 greatly reduced
, that Germany is now able to export 425,
600 tons Of sugar in competition with the
/. sugar-cane Of the West Indies.
The beet growers Of California get more
. beets out Of an equal quantity OF land and
| more sugar out Of an equal quantity oil
beets than the Germans do. In favorable
:. localities our crops are larger than theirs
our soil being more fertile, but they partly
. make up the difference by fertilizing with
y Chile saltpeter. The total German acre.
: age planted in beets last year was IL
round figures 875, 900 acres, on which, al
= stated above, 8, 8l1 600 tons OF beets wert
raised, or IL tons to the acre. At thu
jacksonville beet farm the product lie sale
It to be IS to 20 tons Of beets to the acre
!, and the beets are said to aveage 18 pc
d cent polarization, against IA or Is pei
70 cent polarization in Germany. At leas
8 this is the unofficial report from thu
y factory.
20 Graf Won Schulemberg, in his repor
on beet culture in Germany, mentions
T., model beet farm, in which the land, ate
3. being treated by succession OF processe
1t of cultivation and being heavily manure
n with nitrates, yielded fourteen bushel
g. to the acre, containing Is pc
II. cent of saccharine. This correspond
very closely to the experience {
% Mr.. E. H. Dyer, who reported to tn
Agricultural bureau yield for his teri
H. tory of Is tons to the acre, carrying IA 8
a OF sucross. At Chino exceptional field
ia in favorable seasons have yielded 10 ton
=. to the acre, with occasional lots carryin
v. % per cent, though the average OF fit
sam Piles chosen at haphazard only shove
il. IL per cent.
y, A field which will yield IA tons of beef
III carrying saccharine enough to max g thel
~ worth IS q ton at the factory produces 81
~ a year gross. The same field planted
W wheat and yielding Is bushels per acr
" which ia above the average, will produ'
al at present prices $11.25 gross on Il
farnf The cost Of raising beets, with Il
le- thorough cultivation they require, lie,
IT. course, much greater than the cost
ut raising wheat. But even allowing t
as this, the disparity between the yields
,ss large.