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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1879)
Novembei, 1879. THE WEST SHORE. 323 ways to contain cnne sugar, obtaining about six per cent, of crystallized sugar and four per cent, ot molasses. In ! 796, enconraged with pecuniary aid by Frederick William II., of Prussia, Achurd established an experimental factory at Cunern, in Lower Silesia. Here he worked up 7,000 lbs. of beets daily, obtaining six per cent, of yellow raw sugar, and three per cent, of molas ses. These results were so satisfactory that Man m von Koppy established a factory at Olhcndorf, and Herr Nathu sins one at Hohensleben. Factories were established in Bohemia as early as 1802. Louis Napoleon states that while Achard's experiments were go ing on, the British government, alarmed lest the discoveries of Achard should injure the colonial interests of (treat Miitain, offered him anonymously 50,- 000 thalcrs (equal to $36,500), and sub sequently 200,000 thalers (equal to $146,000), if he would report that his experiments resulted unfavorably. The (ilfer was rejected with contempt, and the successful results of his experiments were made public. Achard showed that besides the sugar and molasses, the pulp would be a useful product as food lor fattening cattle, whose manure would le valuable for other crops. The first Napoleon encouraged the industry hy having 32,000 hectares (equal to 79,075 acres) of land put to beets, and appropriating ixxyx francs for the enterprise in 1811. The Russian gov ernment also encouraged the cultivation in riiulc by a gift of 50,000 rubles (equal to about $36,500) and a rcmis sion of the taxes on land devoted to lccts. The industry was, however, al most entirely alwndoncd in Germany, but under government encouragement was developed in France, till in 1829 the product amounted to 4100,000 kilos, or S nvkii pounds, and in 1835 to 40, 000,000 kilos, or 88100100 pound, (equal to 444000 tons). The French harvest of 1856-6 yielded from the beet !Uf $ji,ijo,ooo Spims 6.750000 PntMk ,$0O,O0O Pulp .000,000 TottL $4$ijno.ooo In the meantime it was revived in Germany and Austria, and extended into Russia, Belgium, Denmark, Hol land and Sweden." The European Sugar Industry in 1875, (from the Sugar Cane, July IWwt Kooi Fsrtorin. Rffineii. very pure saccharine juice. This is the CM JO .... . . .it rmny jj9 Mlratorv as honev in it cell. In like man- Delirium 151 Holland Jl . . . Kuuii 6s . , I Vnni.nl. Swcilcn 4 . . , 'r J ... 'J ncr, the beet root consists of a mat 10 of small cell containing a colorless fluid, lis composition averages, water, 8j.6; cane sugar, 11.3s insoluble eon- The beet sugar enterprises in Fng-lstituents, 1.1; soluble constituents, 5. land failed, but in the United States The greatest beet sugar production one was begun by Messrs. Vaughn near Magdeburg, wa 13.3 per cent., In- and Donaldson, of Philadelphia, in I fcrior beets, 9.2 per ceul average, I ) 1830, but failed fur want of information, I per cent. 1 wclve and lull tons of In 1838, D. L. Child of Northampton, lieets yield on the average one ton of Mass., made 1.300 pound of Ik-cI sugar, raw sugar. For the next twenty-five vcar nothing The following analysis from fourlcVn appears to have been done in this di- varieties of beets are from 8. W. John- rection. In 1863, Gencrc-t Hrothcrs es- son s " How Crops Grow," giving the tablished a large factory at Chatsworth, average water, 8 1 .5 ; albumenokU, 095 j Illinois, which has gone on through sugar, 11.5s organic acids, 3.7s crude many discnuraginging experience, and fibre, 1.3s ash, 0.85 was in 1869 moved in part to Freeport, tiik hkst varirtv or sroAR III. In 1S60 experiments were under taken in California, which finally ic suited in the formation of the Alvorado ItKRT. The Sileian lieel, a pear-shaped root, while in the body and light green mi the lop; is mil the inlu-t in ugar, Sugar Co., which liegsn work in 1K70. k,,, i. most cultivated in Fiance and TWO Othetr companies have since leeii (;crmw,v Ucsue it yield the larger organized in that stale, and some of weight of roots to the acre, grntm vlg- these companies promise to lie IUCCOM ruly, awl produce the largest ful. amount of ugar x 1 acre. ! v igo niFi KTi.TiRB OP Htt SVOAI mam - weight is 1 to. 5 os. Four other verf. FACTt RR. ctis- of while beetl priive of almost These have beM found to I : it, equal value. Hail locations; 2d, Want of capital and Tl(l, MAt t a n ar. or i.am most CANK ON RRRT. This conlsl in ettraeting ami pnri- practical experience ; 3d, Want of infor mation as to suitable soil. The invention of new processes for . . . s l(m, t treating the lice's and the juice in Kti- ,w(wce hpvv ,.n, fsj ),,, H rope, and the choice of the right vsri- of waf y, . tttftf eties 01 neets, nave cnanic.i ioc ....-.. , . -UJ. -IJ -!.. I to produce roots, which yield eight per cent, of sugar. Hy 1 be old methods of lamination, as applied still on a great numhei of plan ts.! SIM, lipUlliir-1 (so Sag 11 in ssjssssjSj Sui;i in lh lagsur, Smgu in l, SV J r" Mv modern impr, laminstion, he obtain ISO nirlli.sl of tiik moon mis or 1 in .s vi 11 vmink niin,, the mamifacturrr obtains - JUICR IN TIIR C AMR A MO IN HIR HRRT. Hy chemical analyit, it is proved to lie exactly the same in lxth. ( ane sugar, accoidmg to Prof. Y oilman, a before stated, ha the formula, t . ij, H. 11,0. Il This is understood to lie the composition of the juice after it i ijuMuml ssjsi purified. Prof. Chandler remarks that most of the sugar are "carliohydrales," i. e., they contain hydrogen and oxy gen in the proportion they exist in water, two atoms of hydrogen to one of oxygen; thus, cane ugar is C. 12, , ,,,iiiwj H. 2, O. 1 1. The leet sugar of com- f . . I L.I . I . ... C. ...... I. I "T" nicrce RSSSSSfsaBSissi w wmtmtmtm When ripe, the tem of the sugar cane contain a dirty while Mlh or opei 3 .1 sin V ' SKi is iilsiiw. Sural in tan, in tMS4l Ml I.OTSI . '" Hy the new process of diffusion or dissolving the cane juice In water Ptwep. taMM ssjssjeei .... ijo s Sufu 1,000 sV ss coat l In beet ugar nianufartere 1st, The S7.): . . llllljl tlsMK . whuh l