The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-11-19
BEET SUGAR FACTORY.
Such an Institution Will be Erected in
Washington County bya
German Professor.

The following from the Corvallis
lines would give the reader the i'm
preston that Oregon is soon to have a
beet sugar factory:
"It is beet sugar factory, but it is
not to be located in Corvallis or Benton
county. Its establishment seems as
sured, because the move in its behalf
has been on foot for some time, and
large amount of stock has already
been taken. The promoter of the
enterprise has been in Corvallis for
several days, but he left for Tigard-
vile, Washington county, where the
factory is TO be built.
1.-The promoter is Richard Kuehne
and he is a German. For three years
ne was expert in the sugar beet factory
OF the Oxreard. Beet Sugar company,
Grand Island, Nebraska, and for
twenty years he was chemist in a
great sugar beet establishment at
Posen, Germany. He knows all about
beets and how to make sugar out of
them. In fact, his fatherland was the
pioneer in the production of sugar
from beets, and what is not known in
the production of sugar from beets in
Germany, is not worth knowing.
'Prof Kuehne came to Corvallis ON
business connected with his proposed
Washington county enterprise. With
him he brought many samples Of
sugar beets grown in Washington
county and to test them for their sugar
product was his business. He spent
three days in the chemical laboratory
of the 0. A. G., where, with Prof.
Shaw, station chemist, the Washing
ton county beets were tested and other
information gathered that was of
satisfactory result to Prof. Kuehne,
and he lef. for Washington county in
good spirits.
" Oregon is one of the best places on
earth for the manufacture of beet
sugar, said the professor,
"The average per cent of sugar in
sugar beets grown in Oregon is H,9
per cent; in Germany it is only l3 per
cent; in France u per cent. The beet
crop is most excellent one for the
farmers, because it is a profitable one.
1t takes twenty pounds of seed at
fifteen cents per pound to plant an
acre of beets. That is SO for seed, and
the yield is from seventeen to twenty
eight tons per acre. We contract to
take beets that yield sugar at the rate
of Il to "A per cent at 81 so per ton.
For every one per cent of sugar yield
above IA per cent. we pay fifty cents
per ton extra. That is to say, beets
yielding 10 per cent sugar would bring
SIS per ton, and if the yield were twenty
tons per acre, the gross income would
be 800 per acre. Oregon is peculiarly
adapted to beet sugar manufacture
and it is only matter OF time until
factories for the purpose will dot the
Willamette valley.
"For many years beet sugar was
manufactured at profit with
machinery that could only extract so
per cent of the sugar from the beet.
Later improvements in machinery
now tiq the average of saving at 92 per
cent. A peculiar fact concerning
sugar beet culture is, that the white
land, 50 common in the Willamette
valley, after being drained, produces
the best beets for sugar. The
percentage of sugar beets grown in
such land is the greatest. All soil IN
the state, however, except beaver dam
land, Is adapted to sugar beet cul-
turr,