The herald., 1897-11-01

ray Of light in pure water as zero and in
pure syrup as 100, a scale showing the
percentages in varying gradations be-
tween them is easily attainable With
lens, light, receptacle and scale adjusted
for the measurement of the DETECTION,
the precise proportion of saccharine
matter in any sample of beet or cane
juice is matter of exact mechanical
measurement.
OTHER FEATURES AND FACTS
A factory of the size described uses 300
to 400 tons of beets per day during the
days. They are used fresh as they ripen.
for. fear of sweating and loss Of sugar
if stored. The output is $4,000 to $4,000
pounds of white sugar per day.
Ten sixty horsepower boilers supply
the power, steam and heat needed. Two
hundred barrels of Los Angeles crude
petroleum are used per day. 1t is worth
81 per barrel. Twenty-Five tons of lime
rock per day from Orc Grande and Col
ton is used in the limekiln, run as an ad-
junct to the refinery. One hundred and
twenty-five men is the working force of
the refinery during the campaign. Most
of them are hired from among the neigh
boring farmers. The regular force of the
mill is hired by the year and occupied be-
tween campaigns in cleaning the ma
ohinery. Because of the character of it's
work it must all be taken apart, cleaned
and put together again between cam
paigns. There is also constant work in
caring for the cattle fed on the pulp.
One thousand head can be fattened on
the pulp obtained from seasons run.
An extensive stock yard and dairy are
essential features of we'll equipped
beet sugar refinery.
Butter from pulp-fed cattle brings
cent pound more because it does not
melt in hot weather. Pulp-fed beef is
much preferred by butchers. Pulp is a
cooked food. Cattle and sheep do not
like it at first, but must be taught to use
it. They soon become very fond of it,
1t is too laxative to be fed alone. Hay
must be fed with it.
fertilizer works Is natural adjunct
to refinery and stock yards.
The refinery described used $50 car
loads of building material and machin-
cry in its construction. 1t cost $500, 000
First ground was broken for it October
20, 1896. nine-mile track was built to
it by the Southern Pacific railroad in
thirty days. A town, new in every
splinter. has since sprung up around
it which sends sixty-five children to it's
public school.
Sugar beets grow better from native
grown seed than from German or French
seed. Twelve pounds to the acre, at 12
cents per pound, should be allowed for.
Beet seeds are planted by drilling. They
should be set in rows about eighteen
inches apart and kept down in size and
weight to about one and a half pounds.
Large growth loses sugar. March and
April are months for planting. Five
months growth will ripen crop. Wet
weather diminishes succharine.
The two refineries at Los Alamitos
will use the product of 10000 acres OF
beets. The Clarks own less than half
that much land there.
The price paid next year will be $3.50
for II per cent saccharine and rs cents
additional per ton for each / per cent
in excess of II per cent. Beets assaying
Is per cent sugar will bring IS per ton.
The waste molasses, worthless for all
else. is valuable road sprinkler in dusty
localities. 1t hardens roads like asphalt.
One of the greatest highways in the
world, running from Bombay to CAL
cutta in India, is made of molasses, lime
and baked clay.
PERTINENT CITATIONS
Every sugar beet farmer should be
dairyman. He can then support a
family in comfora on twenty acres.
James A. Davis. chief of the industrial
department of the Santa Fe railroad,
said few days ago to the writer: "Cal-
ifornians especially should be especially
impressed by the money they are losing
by not making it in the dairy business.
They have not touched one corner Of the
immense wealth producing possibilities
in dairy product development that liz.
waiting and ready at their hands, un-
utilized and neglected.
Henry II. Oxnard. president of three
beet sugar companies, says: "An aero
of ground producing forty bushels Of
grain, worth thirty cents bushel. will
buy with it's proceeds from 200 to 800
pounds of sugar, but planted in sugar
beets will yield from 1000 to 5000 pounds
of sugar.
| Monsignore Capel of England and Call
] fornia, distinguished ecclesiasticic,