MICHIGAN BEET SUGAR IN lOUO. 



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Companiea. 



Michi^n Sugar Co 



Bay C it\ Sugar Co 



West Hay City Sugar Co. 



Peniiianiar Sugar co 



Detroit Sugar Co 



Wolverine Sugar Co.. 



Holland Sugar Co 



Kalamazoo Sugar Co. 

 Aima Sugar Co 



Net tons 

 beets 

 sliced. 



Pounds 



sugar 



produced. 



Founds I 



sugar Af^rea in 

 per ton j lo99. 



beets. 



40,064 I t;,i)42,l;W j 173.2 6,780 



1(;,588.83 I 2,085,808 r.;5.1 ] 6,250 



10,797 

 16,871 



19,700 



1,787,283 

 2,584,099 



3,361,203 



1C6.5 

 153.1 



170.6 



1,500 

 ( 3,700 

 I 2,400 



2,800 



Acres in 

 19U0. 



5,519 

 3,160 



2,25a 

 2,000 



3,30ft 



As to the quality of the sugar made, I am glad to say that it was 

 generally a prime article. It must be admitted, however, that certain 

 factories were, by reason of machinery not adapted to American condi- 

 tions, unable to make a first-class article, and as a result the reputation 

 of Michigan sugar in the markets is somewhat injured. Taking up the 

 factories one by one, permit me to report certain details. 



The campaign of 1891) was the second one for the Michigan Sugar 

 Company, which had sliced during 1898 over 11,000 tons of beets, and had 

 made therefrom 5,280,000 pounds of sugar. Its second campaign was 

 marked by the fact that the experience of the year preceding, with tb 

 opportunity to improve machinery during the summer of 1899, had re- 

 sulted in a campaign practically without accident or stoppage. The 

 second campaign lasted 11-1 days. There are 190 men employed in and 

 about the factory, 20 men working the entire year. The quality of the 

 sugar is uniformly first-class. The factory was built by Fred W. Wolf 

 Co., Chicago. The men employed are for the most part American-born and 

 nearly all of them American citizens. The factory has a nominal 

 capacity of 350 tons per day, although it has sliced as high as 400 tons 

 per day for several consecutive days. 



The Bay City factory has a capacity of 500 tons per day, with room 

 for double that amount, and cost §500,000. The sugar is excellent in 

 qualit}' and is sold in Chicago very largel}^ some going to Michigan 

 points. No dividend has been declared this year, the profits made 

 being applied to retiring bonds and the betterment of the plant. Both 

 of these factories use limestone from Trenton and Wyandotte quarries. 

 The factory was built by the Kilby Manufacturing Company, of Cleve- 

 land, and is giving good satisfaction. It was in operation 110 days 

 during the last campaign. There are employed in and about the factory 

 250 men, 30 of whom work the entire season, and 30 more during June, 

 July and August in repairs and i)reparations for the coming campaign. 

 The owners are at present installing a plant for drying the pulp and 

 mixing with molasses, making a feed for cattle, which will be put upon 

 the market, the bulk of it being already sold for export at a nominal 

 advance over the cost of production. This dried pulp contains less than 

 10 per cent of water; it also contains 1().90 per cent of protein, with a 

 high per cent of carbohydrates. The factory now has 5,519 acres con- 

 tracted for the campaign of 1900, 



The factory of the West Bay City Sugar Company was not finished 

 in time to begin operations until nearly the beginning of the new year. 

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