The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-08-22
SUGAR FACTORIES
They May Be Utilized in
the OFF Season.
In the Manufacture Of Artific,a,
Sandstone = Treaties Between
y. 8. and West indies.

Referring to the reciprocity treaties
recently made between the United
States and the West Indian colonies.
the Louisiana Planter says:
The basis OF these treaties is sugar!
Is 1t fair, or even consistent with the
protective principle, to single out the
domestic industry OF sugar production
for IL or 20 per cent. sacrifice, in or
der to advantage our export trade in
ARTICLES which have grown into such
proportions that we are able to meet
like or similar foreign competing ar
ticles in the markets of the world f?
Senator Carter of Montana recently
stated that the Dingley tariff law con
by its provisions the devel-
opnent of the beet sugar industry In
the United States, and the sugar sched-
ule was arranged with special view
to that end"
That schedule was a very moderate
one-only about one-half Of the amount
found in the schedules prior to 1890.
The Dingley act had no less for an OBJ
ject than the development Of our cane
sugar industry. The equivalent ad va
loren rate on 96-test or centrifugal su-
gars by the present law Is about Sc per
cent, while the equivalent I'D valorem
on SO analysis or 94-test German beet
sugar is IS, but IL per cent. Of that
simply offsets the German export boun-
ty. On 80 muscovados the equivalent
ad valorem is only SO per cent.
These, l say, are extremely moder-
ate duties, and they cannot bear IL,
much less a 20 per cent. reduction. The
cane-sugar people, our beet-raisers and
beet-sugar producers in the West
Northwest and on the Pacific Slope, as
well as in Michigan and New York.
must not shut their eyes to danger
which again threatens them-found in
these sO-called reciprocity treaties.
They should be aroused in order to
consolidate; they should discuss the
matter. in spite OF the mild admoni-
ton from the State Department, and
be prepared to smash this attempt to
violate a cardinal principle of the pro-
tective system.
According to the British Consul at
Portland, Oregon, the sugar factory at
La Grande, although fully equipped to
use $50 tons of beets per day, found
itself hampered last year by the mex
perience of farmers, and only received
S,147 tons of beets, which enabled the
mill to run only twenty-eight days,
and from which was manufactured l.
$780, 900 pounds of sugar. The quality
was satisfactory, but the quantity was
not what had been expected. owing to
lack of culture. Strong efforts were
made to pass bill granting a bounty
of 81 (is.) per ton of 1000 pounds, but
they were unsuccessful. The State OF
Washington passed a bounty bill in
1896 granting one-half cent (Ad.) per
pound of refined sugar for five years,
with the provision that it should not
exceed $4,000 (e10,00O) in any one
year. Another large factory is being
constructed at Waverley, in Spokane
County, Washington, and will prOba-
bly, be in operation during the season
of 1899.
The single factory in New Mexico
conducts a stock-feeding enterprise in
order to dispose of the pulp. and fed
last year LOO lambs. The lambs
gained ten pounds each in twenty-One
days on this feed. The secretary of a
cattle-feeding company In Nebraska
raised 500 acres of sugar beets simply
Ito feed cattle. Illinois, too, has taken
ito the cultivation Of the beets for this
purpose. Mr.. Saylor suggests that
farmers generally should take to rails
ing the beets "for the same purpose
, as other crops. namely. food for man
land beast" He says that for the table
there is no more palatable beet, II
: rightly prepared.
Many suggestions have been made to
enable sugar manufacturers to utilize
their factories during the time when
there is no sugar to be made, and thus
to avoid leaving the invested capital
lie idle the greater part Of the year, but
. little success has yet been had in the
matter. A fresh suggestion is made
by an engineer. s. Bell. in Die Deutsche
Zuckerindustrie.
The extra outfit necessary to utilize
, the plant should, of course, be inexpen-
, sive. and the labor required to operate
the machines not In excess of that en-
ployed regularly In the sugar factory.
Another important requirement Is that
the raw material should be at hand
Everywhere, and there should be a
ready market for the product.
All these conditions being fulfilled
, the operation of the factory during the
idle months OF the sugar year must
certainly be remunerative. II Is be-
lieved that this applies to the mahufac-
ture OF artificial sandstone from lime
and sand, which. under steam pressure,
enter a chemical combination calcium
silicate) and supply stones which have
become very popular In building. Their
resistance Is In excess OF 476 pounds
per square centimeter; they are per-
fectly weatherproof, and can be pre-
pared In cheap and simple manner,
/, Tho nnwer renulred for mixiug the