The sun., 1896-09-20
A like growth n Germany is noted during

Indeed. beet sugar has for Germany be-
come an important article OF export. In tho
year 1877 the amount sent out OF the country
WAS 57.To3 tons. Ten years later II had In
creasd more than tenfold, to 643. $40 tons. while
country paid Germany Sld,oOo,ooo for about
200, 900 tons OF beet sugar, and Mr. Sewers
more than paid for any Other artcla impop Ss
How does this industry stane in the United
production here was l2,oo+, ,s3s pounds; in
1892 IL was ~ 7,oQ3,322 pounds; in 1898 it was
and 1909, bnt II the IN ;rease has continued
AZ anything Ike the rate just noted, the
S 'kis t@o sS very I "TSS
California, and Utah have already been de-
voted 10 sugar beet culture, with most prom.
even climate OF California and Utah, especial
ly whom aidea by irrigation, are suited 20 an
Iornia alone produeed about 30, 600. 900 hounds
OF beet sugar. Nebraska and the Dakotas
rainfall in The season OF rapid growth. Tho
farmers OF Nebraska IND that the temperature
for June. July. August, and September is SO
turity early In October. That state produced
5,s35.9oo pounds II ue0t sugar in 1893. or
more than double the amount OF two years be-
fore. and IL also has one OF the most sue ,cssful
beet sugar factories. improvements in max.
ing the sugar 20 on, and u better knowledge is
A summary OF facts given by Mr.. Sewers
~
Tho yield OF sugar beets vAries from twelve TO
forty tons per acre The best land. with good cul,
twenty to thirty tons per acre, but. the crop
would DO hardly poa'AGle , a. yield Of less than
moro than forty tons OF beets; but this an un.
acre Is about ifty dollars, In the present cohdi.
tiop of the methods OF manufacture. from eight to
or one & pound Of sugar; the quantity varies accord
lFnF Tla "a tha nf
the market. About.rour yeara ago beet sugar from
At cost OF three dollars and eighty ono cents
hundred pounds II rarely costa now above hvo
centB pound.
mnnts have been made in the process OF manu-
Iacture that instead OF converting from four
70 tive per cent OF the beet into sugar, IL TO
10 per cent are converted now, and the cost of
production per pound which was once from
10 l2 cents, Is now only from two to four. The
average cost here in 1893 was three cents. and
1000 acres were used for growing sugar
beets. which brought 10 the farmer an average
poands OF sugar hSa ysSr S1
were seven factories In the country, with a
capital nf about $4,000, 900.
annual consumption OF sugar per capita In
Germany Is Is pounds: ln France and switzer-
England, 90. These are extraordinary differ.
swsn sd EhNaad appsarsn as SSvla the
sugar enough for home consumption, and i'm.
port little snCar, while tiermany and France
export large quantities. In 1902 Germany sold
10 English purchasers alone nearly 00o, 900
tons of beet sugar, the product OF their fac.
tories and helds.
AZ TO our country. It is declared that We
spend annually about si3o, 1000, 900 'or sugar.
Of which more than elsht,tsnths goss 70 Tor:
the exported sugar product Of the world. Fiuy
years ago, "a per cent. OF tho annual sugar
product OF CUBA found market In Europe;
now that proportion of its production IL sold
In tho United states" This last eItraorc mary
est which we have IN that island, and its
growth In nfty yeas