﻿72 
  Seventh 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  BEET 
  SUGAR 
  INDUSTRY. 
  

  

  As 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  output 
  of 
  the 
  beet 
  sugar 
  factories 
  of 
  this 
  State 
  

   was 
  in 
  the 
  year 
  1898, 
  I 
  deem 
  it 
  well 
  to 
  give 
  at 
  this 
  time 
  the 
  prod- 
  

   uct, 
  etc., 
  of 
  both 
  factories 
  in 
  this 
  State, 
  for 
  the 
  season 
  of 
  1898-1899. 
  

  

  The 
  amount 
  of 
  sugar 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  Binghamton 
  Beet 
  Sugar 
  Com- 
  

   pany 
  at 
  their 
  factoiy, 
  Binghamton, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  was 
  1,484,040 
  pounds^ 
  

   and 
  that 
  made 
  at 
  the 
  First 
  New 
  York 
  Beet 
  Sugar 
  Company's 
  fac- 
  

   tory, 
  Kome, 
  IST. 
  Y., 
  was 
  1,303,065 
  pounds. 
  Under 
  the 
  provisions 
  

   of 
  chapter 
  500 
  of 
  the 
  Laws 
  of 
  1897, 
  there 
  was 
  apportioned 
  to 
  the 
  

   Binghamton 
  Beet 
  Slugar 
  Company, 
  $14,840.40, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  First 
  

   New 
  York 
  Beet 
  Sugar 
  Company, 
  $13,030.65 
  from 
  the 
  funds 
  ap- 
  

   propriated 
  for 
  that 
  purpose. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  E. 
  J. 
  Wheeler, 
  chemist, 
  makes 
  the 
  following 
  statement 
  

   and 
  report 
  as 
  to 
  polarization, 
  etc., 
  on 
  the 
  sugar 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  re- 
  

   spective 
  factories, 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  Seventy-eight 
  samples 
  have 
  been 
  received 
  from 
  the 
  First 
  New 
  

   York 
  Peet 
  Sugar 
  Factory, 
  at 
  Rome, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  and 
  77 
  samples 
  frona 
  

   the 
  Binghamton 
  Beet 
  Sugar 
  Factory, 
  located 
  at 
  Binghamton, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

   Of 
  tliese, 
  51 
  samples 
  from 
  the 
  Rome 
  factory 
  were 
  granulated, 
  and 
  

   27 
  were 
  broA\Ti 
  sugar. 
  From 
  the 
  Binghamton 
  factory, 
  59 
  were 
  

   granulated, 
  and 
  18 
  were 
  bro^soi 
  sugar. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  first 
  tables 
  of 
  this 
  report 
  are 
  noted 
  the 
  data 
  as 
  furnished 
  

   by 
  the 
  label 
  accompanying 
  the 
  sample. 
  All 
  of 
  the 
  samples 
  received 
  

   from 
  the 
  Rome 
  factoiy, 
  Anth 
  two 
  exceptions, 
  were 
  signed 
  by 
  C. 
  O. 
  

   Zimmerman; 
  all 
  of 
  those 
  from 
  Binghamton, 
  by 
  F. 
  F. 
  Wright. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  second 
  tables 
  are 
  given 
  the 
  dates 
  on 
  which, 
  the 
  samples 
  

   were 
  received 
  at 
  this 
  laboratory, 
  the 
  dates 
  on 
  which 
  report 
  was 
  

   sent, 
  how 
  report 
  was 
  sent, 
  to 
  whom 
  directed, 
  and 
  the 
  polarization. 
  

  

  The 
  only 
  determination 
  made 
  was 
  that 
  of 
  total 
  sugar 
  by 
  the 
  

   polariscope. 
  The 
  determinations 
  were 
  made 
  with 
  a 
  Schmidt 
  & 
  

   Haensch 
  triple 
  field 
  polariscope. 
  All 
  readings 
  were 
  made 
  in 
  a 
  

   200 
  m. 
  m. 
  tube, 
  using 
  26.048 
  grms. 
  of 
  sugar 
  and 
  2 
  c. 
  c. 
  of 
  alumnia 
  

   cream 
  for 
  clarifying 
  the 
  solutions 
  of 
  granulated 
  sugars, 
  and 
  both 
  

   2 
  c. 
  c. 
  of 
  lead-sub-acetate, 
  and 
  2 
  c. 
  c. 
  of 
  alumnia 
  cream 
  for 
  clarify- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  solutions 
  of 
  browoi 
  sugars. 
  

  

  