The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-03-31
Honor thy father
and thy mother, a
lesson to young and
old," "The Fifth Com
mandment'' at the
Orpheum.
QUALITY OF BEET
SUGAR PROVEN
By W. A. Beard in
1.-The Great West

The relative merits OF sugar made
from beets and that made from cane
have been a subject OF discussion ever
since beot sugar became an important
factor In the market In the early
Days OF the beet sugar industry IL was
maintained by the cane sugar people
that the product was ili-flayored. Ill
looking and inferior TO a greater or
less degree. This Idea has been hand
ed down TO the present time, and is
believed by many, notwithstanding the
fact that two-thirdc OF the worlds
sugar supply Is made from beets The
prejudice is quite prevalent among
and other users of sugar 1t is urged
against the beet product that it Is
'coarSer," that II is less sweet and
that 1t cannot be safely used In can
ming fruit. All of which is untrue and
In no manner justified by the facts
Beet sugar can be made. and Is made
In the great sugar manufacturing
plants. as white and as pure, from a
technical standpoint, as sugar made
from cane. The product of these fac.
tcrios analyzes as close TO 100 per
cent pure as does the product of the
cane sugar factories.
This prejudice against beet sugar
exists In California as well as else
where. Beet sugar Is an important
product OF this state. and the prevail
ing impression that II cannot be safe
ly used for various commercial pur-
poses has been Il serious drawback TO
the local marketing OF the local crop.
Some years ago the University of Call
f'irnia became Interested In the mat
ter as one OF statewide Importance.
and undertook a series of inyestiga'
tions and experiments with view to
determining by actual test whether
or not any actual basis existed for
the prejudice In favor OF the import
ed sugar. These tests were made nm
der the direction of Professor Geo
W. Shaw OF the University of Califor-
mia staff and the results are set forth
In circular number thirty-threc, issued
In August. 1907
The circular tells in detail OF en-
porimcnts in canning cherries. apri.
cots. plumS, peaches. and pears with
both cane and beet sugar. under con
ditions as near to exactly alike as II
was possible TO attain Cane sugar
for the purpose was secured at the
Western Sugar refinery at San Fran
ciDco, and tested 80 7-10 pure. The
beet sugar was made from beets
grown ut Oxnard. Cal, and analysis
showed II to be 80 $40 pure Both
sugars had been "blued" with al
tramarino, after the common practice
Of sugar manufacturing. and were,
therefore, not different from the sug-
ars ordinarily found on the market
The fruits above named were can
ned with these sugars, both In com
mercial canneries and by the ordinary
home methods Varying quantities
of the sugar were used, ranging from
a ten per cent to a fifty-five per cent
syrup.
The several kinds Of fruit were
placed in cases In the ordinary way
and stored In q rather unfavorablc To-
cation for period of two years. cans
OF eahc variety being opened from
time to time to observe the change,
II any or the 1000 cans which were
thus treated only six cans from the
beet sugar lot and seven cans from
the cane sugar lot spoiled during the
two years. and these wero evidently
due to imperfect sealing of cans thus
showing the utter lack of foundation
for the idea that fruits do not keep
we'll when preserved with beet sugar,
and that such sugar does not work
we'll I'm the cauncry.
In the household trials both apricois
and peaches were canned In a forty
Ter cent eyruq. fifty cans In each lot.
tho ordinary Mason jars being used as
containers IN each case. From these