Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-01-13
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Sugar: A New aud Profitable Industry
in the United States for Agriculture,
Capital and Labor, 10 Supply the
Home Mai ket yearly with 500 900, goo
of its Prod net.
This is the title Of a book which give
a fascinating insight into the posslbih.
ties of the domestic sugar industry. Ii
is shown that the beet sugar industry Is
no longer an experiment i'll the United
States, but that beets much richer in
sugar than those grown i'll Europe can
be produced over - vast area In this
country. The book gives an account OF
what has been done in the beet sugar
factories operated IN this country during
the past six or eight years. The exhibit
is a surprising one, aud II congress Will
insure the American market for Amer
lean sugar, the author Is convinced that
the United States will ere long becom"
the greatest sugar producer IN the world.
thus putting into she pockets of our own
farmers, cap talists and laborers, the
more than 500. 900, 900 now sent abroad
annually for imported sugar.
Part discu sses the economic aspects
of sugar, claiming that il Is an economic
crime for the United States to import
sugar 20 the va,uo of its entire eXp0rta
ton of wheat au, wheat flour. Ii Il shown
how Europe mas stimulated the beet su-
gar industry until nearly two-thirds of
the worlds supply of sugar comes from
the bset root, also the increasing com
petition of Egyptian and Oriental sugar $
and the great H. Ustice Of admitting So
CARS free from the Hawaiian lslanus
In Part 2, Prof. Stubs Of Louisiana
gives an admirable insight into the cane
sugar industry OF the south, and brings
out forcibly the possibilities Of its de-
veopment.
The bulk of this work in Part 3, is de-
voted to the beet sugar industry in
America Ii first tells what has been
accomplished III the y nited States and
then shows how the the industry has
grown in each state The culture of the
sugar beet ur der American conditions
il treated with great thoroughness.
| This is followed by an exhaustive chap
ter on commercial aspects OF the beet
sugar industry, including cost and pro
! fits Of the beet TO the grower, its advaD-
tages, labor and capital, with instruc-
/ tions about starting sugar factories, can
/ tions to those new 10 the industry, etc
/ The author, Herbert Myrick, editor OF
american AEIlcultuT'sl, mas enucdNOIeu
/ to base the whole work on practical ex
/ perience under American conditions in
! field and factory. The book is copious-
/ ly illustrated with photo engravings o.
cane sugar houses and beet sugar fac
tories, cultural processes, etc. IL CON
/ tains IS illustrations and l6S large
pages, is published by Orange Judd
Company, New York and Chicago, and
sells for only 50c per copy, postpaid.
The widespread interest in the indus
try is shown by the fact that the book
contains a directory Of about 800 com.
munities in the United States that have
organized branches Of the American su.
gar growers society and that are in other
ways endeavoring to promote the indus
Try ana TO obtain sugar factories. The
society mentioned is coalition OF oil
inteZrslsd north south. east and west 70
buT this great domestic industry
" t ii against the sugar trust