The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-11
UNLIMITED SUGAR SUPPLY
DISCOVERED In THE U. S.
More Than Three Years Re-
search Work of Chemists
Ends in Success.

6HuS IN SUCCESS,
After more than three years intensiv,
effort. which included numberless ex,
periments, Frank X. Gardner, presiden
of the General Food Products company
of sol Fifth avenue. New York City
has announced that DR.. Arthur w. Smith
and 5. +. Evans, of Baltimore, have in
vented and perfected process by which
white sugar OF the best domestic anC
commercial kinds may be obtained
from corn. The practically unlimited
supply of corn in this country, coupled
with the fact that the sugar may b,
manufactured for less than 4 cents q
pound. proves that in the near future
| there can never be a sugar short
age" here and that the price of that
necessity will soon be more than cut
in half.
I'VE regard the successful completion
OF our work." Mr.. Gardner said yester-
day. AS probably the most important
food discovery for many years. 1t means
that there viii be an adequate supply OF
| sugar for all purposes and at price that
Is low enough for any pocketbook. 1t
means that the people of this country
| VIII have all the sugar they need for
household consumption for all time and
that is the most important feature OF
the great discovery.
TO fully realize what this new and
| unlimited sugar supply means It IS
necessary to understand the present
situation. Sugar as 1t is generally
known is the product OF sugar cane,
beets, fruits and starch. Cane and
beet sugars represent the great bulk of
that now used The production of these
for the past year was about 5000. 900
tons, which Is about 5000, 900 tons I'M
A
and which, accounts for the present
shortage and high prices.
To-day this country is fairly well sup
piled with sugar but the rest of the
world Is practically doing without 1t
and it will be years before the shortage
is relieved II the old sources of supply
are depended upon. For the year end
ing July l, 1920, the sugar consumption
per capita in this country was a little
more than 90 pounds per year, giving
grand total of about $4,000 tons, or
which less than 100000 were produced
in the United States.
Realizing the above conditions and
seeing that they would result in an
ever-increasing shortage, more than
three years ago commenced working on
the problem of obtaining n pure, sweet
sugar from corn, having in mind that
the tremendous corn crop would supply
unlimited amount of raw material. In
the course of the organization of the
General Food Products company and its
acquisition OF the Baltimore Pearl
Hominy company, of Baltimore. Md, we
secured the services of DR.. Arthur w.
Smith, a prominent research chemist of
that city. DR.. Smith Immediately UNI
dertook to solve the problem of produce
ing edible white sugar from corn and In
his work was assisted by Mr.. S. +.
Evans president of the New Sugar
Products company and president
of the General Food Products company.
In all his work DIR. Smith worked along
original lines and followed new ideas.
Now, after practically countless eX-
periments and Investigations. he has
produced the sugar we were after. 1t
has all the physical and chemical char
acteristics of honey and in that sense
might be called corn honey. However.
the scientific name given Ii and under
which 1t Is patented is 'Invertose," a
name soon to be known everywhere
sugar Is used. The new sugar Is white
in color, contains all nutritivos qualities,
and is about so per cent as sweet as
cane sugar. In other Words. when
placed on the marketa NTH more must
be purchased TO obtain the same amount
of sweetness as cane sugar, but the
price will be almost 100 per cent. less for
the amount. At present the new sugar
is made In syrup form, is water-white
lures Of being crystalized or graduated
form, will be placed on the market so
that the people of this country may be
able TO cut their sugar bill in half.
The unlimited supply OF this new
sugar Is understood when IL Is known
that one bushel OF corn will produce
about forty pounds of the syrup and
that the annual corn crop is more than
three billion bushels. Just about ! per
cent. OF this crop would produce all the
sugar this country can use. Our OK
Deriments prove that the new sugar can
ne used In candy making, ice cream, soft
thinks. preserves, condensed milk, chew
ng gum, tobacco, and in practically
very other branch OF commercial use.
IN the household the new sugar can be
Used everywhere cane sugar is now con-
summed. In other words. the new sugar
meets all sugar requirements every
where In the world II can be manufac-
ured and sold at half the price of cane. |
,eet or other sugars in daily use and |
,ught to be put into the hands OF every |
in the country at cents
POUND"
Mr.. Evans was one OF Herbert Hoov-
,r's assistants during the work OF the |
God administration and was then I'm |
'harge OF coarse grains and syrups and |
hIis became interested In Mr.. Gardner's |
Ian to obtain edible sugar from corn. |
rhe plans of the General Food Products |
call for production OF about |
90 barrels daily at the Baltimore plant |
within the next month. and by January |
n additional 900 pounds daily at its
cincinnati plant. other plants are be-
ng Investigated with the Idea OF tan.
ny them over as II Is realized that the
emand for the new sugar VIII far ex-
nor n far tp