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ted States Of America along the
same line, the culture Of sugar
beet seed, one can foresee that be-
fore many years Germany and
Austria-Hungary will have lost
their principal foreign outlets for
their sugar beet seed.
The beet sugar industry in Ger
many does not seem to have SUI
fered much from the reverbera-
tons Of the war, if one is to judge
by the financial results Here,
for example, are the results that
were reached at the SchottWitz
(Silesia) sugar factory in 1917-lt:
beets worked, Fl, 131 tons; average
price for .beets delivered at the
factory, 3 marks, or, about -
cents perquintal Of 80 Kilograms
or 100 pounds; yiel din sugar per
100 of beets, 1q.25; yield i'll mo
lasses, 1.15; beets worked per day,
964 tons; cost of manufacture per
80 kg. of beets of 80 pfennigs, 81
cents. The profit i'll the manufac-
ture reached to 226,427 marks.
The quantity of beets employed i'll
the work has, it is true, been di-
mnishing because Of the reduc-
ton in the beet cultivation. in
1913 there had been soWn $50
hectares. in 1916 the area sown
was but 2,315 hectares; in 1911
an area of 2,1C0 hectares and in
1913 of 1850 hectares. But the
beet culture beyond the Rhine
can revive rapidly again after the
war, as the German sugar factor-
les have been free from all devas-
tation,
Before the war the molasses oD-
tanned in the beet sugar factories
in Germany was partly given to
the sucrateris and partly to the
agriculurists to use under the
form of molasses forage for feed
ing the farm animals. a very small
portion of the molasses produc-
ton going to other industries and
to the distilleries. During the
war the manufacture Of powder
necessitating the manufacture Of
very large quantities Of alcohol
it was necessary to resort to all
containing alcohol ard
to distill much larger quantity
Of alcohol it was necessary to
resort to all materials containing
alcohol and to distill a much larg-
er quantity of molasses than was
usual In 1928 Germany pro-
duced 3,750,O0O hectolitres of al
aQhol, Of which 100000 hectoli-
tres of alcohol were made from
potatoes, $4,000 hectolitres from
grains, 100000 hectolitres from
molasses and $4,000 hectolitres Of
alcohol from various other sub
stances Following the scarcity Of
nitrate of soda caused by the
the agricultural yield
diminished and it became neces-l
'ary to resort to other means for
he production Of alcohol. It was
ordered, above al, that the pop /,
llation must substitute other
oods for the potato. s
They augmented the amount
# molasses allotted to the distll-
ers, an amount which rose from
to 9 per cent to all the molasses
being in the neighbor-
God of $4,000 tons In 1867
hey distilled 10000 tons of mo-
asses. This being added to the
'otatoes in one proportion, did
ct 60 beyond 20 per cent, in or
er to be able to utilize the malt
or the feeding Of the livestock.
he molasses could be equally en-
Logged in minute proportions with
he 'beets or the pulp Of the beets,
he utilization of which for the
manufacture of alcohol consti-
uted new accomplishment In
ne domain Of industry in the
erman war They used princi-
ally for this purpose forage
Gets, capable of yielding 5 litres
alcohol per 100 kiloer. Of roots.
The sugar itself, denatured by
sed in the distilleries. In addi-
on to the processes above men,
oned, the Germans applied a
ew way for the production of d.
'hol, already utilized in Switzer-
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