Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-11-20
Beet VS..
Cane Sugar
EXPERIMENTS BY ACTUAL TESTS
SHOW NO DIFFERENCE IN
ABUSES QUALITY

BcfkeIey, Ial., OCl. " DISPUTES
on the question as to whether sugar
from cane or from the beet was the
superior will now be settled authori-
.tatiyely, for. George W. Shaw. profess
scr of agricultural technology of the
State University. has issued a bulle-
tin in which he declares that beet
sugar is not one whit inferior to that
made from the cane. Shaw bases his
statement on long series OF expert
ments at the State University.
Concerning the controversy about
the relative merits of the two kinds
IT sugar, Shaw says:
The relative merits of sugar from
beets and that from cane have been Il
mootod question ever since beet sugar
has become such an important factor
in the sugar market. The friends Of
sugar from cane early In the days of
the beet sugar industry maintained
that beet sugar was repulsive, III ila-
yured, IN looking and entirely infe-
rIor to cane sugar. As soon as 1t was
found that sugar, white and pure,
from a technical standpoint, could be
made in the beet sugar factory di-
rectly from beets, and that this SUI
gar would analyze us close to 100 per
cent. as the product from cane. the
| friends of the latter advanced other
arguments, especially to the effect
that beet sugar could not be used
fer various purposes for which the
cider cane product had long been EN-
Ipioyed. Even today the question is
often under discussion. On account
| of this. and the numerous statements
made in public meetings and in the
columns of certain newspapers that
beet sugar cannot be safely used for
| fruit preserving and canning, and
that this idea Is quite prevalent
among hOusekeepers, Canncrymen and
COnfeCtioners, certain experiments
were undertaken in the canning OF
truit and the making of jellies, using
beet sugar and checking the results
against the same fruits prepared in
the same manner with cane sugar.
The manufacture of beet sugar, the
sdvant declares, Is beyond the eXper-
mental stage, and II Is because of
the wonderful growth of the industry
that he calls attention to the popu-
lar fallacy that cane sugar is the su-
lperior. or this he says:
THE utter folly of this idea that
!heet sugar can not be used for can
ring purposes Is further emphasized
by the fact that practically all the
sugar used in Germany and France
FOR canning and preserving is from
the beet. and for many years Ameri-
can refined beet sugar was used
without complaint in this country,
because the mass of the people were
not aware that 1t was derived from
the beet. This sugar was brought
here as raw sugar from Europe, re-
fined at American rehneries, and con
sumers purchased II under the false
IDEA that II was cane sugar. But as
the industry began to grow rapidly
I'm the United States attention was
directed to the source of sugar, ant
there has arisen this popular error
which may have been somewhat fOs
tered by interested parties. People
have become so accustomed to thu
term cane sugar" that they do no
realize that within the last few year.
the bulk of the worlds sugar suppl!
has shifted from cane to beet. IL
1853 the worlds sugar supply wa
1000 long tons, of which 3O4,
900 tons were accredited to the suga
beet, or about ~ per cent. In 1870!
practically two-thirds of the world
sugar was derived from the suga
, beet.
The growth of the industry in tn,
United States has been second Onl.
to its growth in the sugar world. A
an American industry II is less thai
40 years old, for ii was In 1863 tina
7 the first plant to manufacture bee
Z. sugar successfully in Il commercial
= way was erected in California. Fo
, the first 20 years the industry grew
: hut slowly, so that in 1890 Their
were but three factories. Before tn
close of 1901, however. the humble
. had increased to 30 increase of 80
! per cent in 10 years.. while in 1870
: the number of factories in operation
In the United States was 81, an in
!. crease of 100 per cent in the last 81
D years, and several new ones ar
scheduled for the campaign of 1907
4 not to mention others operating /
Canada.