Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-05
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BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.

BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
Progress Made Last Year Described In n
Government Report.
New York Sun.
The report of the department Of
agriculture on the progress of the beet
sugar industry in The United States
during 1898, just issued from the gov
ernment printing Office, records the
successful production Of the beets
and the sugar in nine states and terri
tories, the results of experiment sta
tions in 10 and projected new or addi-
tional factories and plots in "a. Secre-
tary Wilson, in his letter to the presi-
dent transmitting the report, remarks
that j. is seen that the Pacific slope
still holds the leading place in furnish
/ ing areas suitable for the most success
full beet culture; but almost equally
favorable areas are presented by Mich
igan and New York and by few other
states in the northern and eastern
regions of the country. ut has been
demonstrated that where irrigation
can be carried on there are large areas
| in the arid regions where beets Of
superior excellence can be produced"
he says.
Charles F. Saylor, the special agent
of the department, who carried on the
investigation, directs attention to the
fact that the average gain in sugar
consumption in the United States dur
| ing the last % years has been IL per
cent, while the rate of increase of
population is estimated at only 8 per
cent. annually. The completion of
mammoth factory at Salinas, CAL, by
Claus Spreckels, gives 10 this country
the largest factory of the kind in the
world. Beets can be supplied to the
sheds in carloads and the cars emptied
by a trip automatic platform. The
cost of the factory was 50, ,750, 900, and
to run it l 200 barrels of petroleum will
be used for fuel daily. TO supply the
1000 tons of beets which it will work
up daily into 400 tons of raw sugar
will require 10000 acres Of land, and
the concern will pay out for these
beets about $4,000 day. Its water
supply of 100000 gallons a day is
to come from artesian wells. One
Oregon factory demonstrated its ability
to use 100 tons more beets day than
it was designed for. A distillery has
been established at a Utah factory to
make alchohol from the lower grade
molasses after the sugar factory is
through with it. The intention is to
manufacture alchohol from this for two
months of the year and from rye the
rest of the time.
The single factory in New Mexico
conducts a stock-feed enterprise in
order to dispose of the pulp, and fed
last year 1,100 lambs. The lambs
gained 10 pounds each in 81 days on
this feed. The secretary of a cattle.
feeding company in Nebraska raised
500 acres of sugar beets simply to feed
cattle. Illinois, too, has taken to the
cultivation of the beets for this pur-
pose. Mr.. Saylor suggests that farm
ers generally should take to raising
the beet "for the same purpose as
other crops, namely, food for man and
beast" He says that for the table
there is no more palatable beet, if
rightly prepared, and adds:
at is excellent for the milch COW,
for fattening hogs and for fattening
steers and sheep. There is nothing
that excels it. n Some wonderful
results have been produced by feeding
sugar beets. Agentleman in California
| is an extensive grower Of fruits, which
he prepares for the market in the
shape of dried fruits. In the produc-
ton of these commodities he has a
great deal of waste, which he utilizes
in feeding stock. Experience taught
him that he could handle hogs easier
than anything else to consume these
wastes, but he wanted something more
substantial to feed with them, so be-
tween his young non.producing trees
he commenced growing sugar beets and
feeding the same in connection with
the waste fruits. His feeding industry
grew 80, that when 1 saw him, he had
about 500 hogs that would weigh from
$50 to 400 pounds each, and no finer
specimens could be found. They were
superior in every way for the market.
These hogs had been put in this con:
dition without an ounce of grain OF
any kind. AS l understood it, his ra,
tion consisted of bran, waste fruits and
sugar beets."
As for feeding the pulp, the waste
product of the sugar factories, to cat
tie, Mr.. Saylor says: "Pulp can be
secured at these factories for from 80
cents to 81 per ton. Of course it will
not reach this latter figure until the
stock interests begin to appreciate the
value of the pulp for feeding. But
where is it that farmer can buy ton
of really nutritious stock food for 81.
He should arrange it so that he can
take a load of beets TO the factory and
then return with load of pulp. This
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