12 CULTURE OF THE SUGAR BEET. 



Krayn has worked during three years, and the profit it assures its possessor, confirm 

 the results presented by the official examinations which have been made of the manu- 

 facture of muscovado according to my perfected methods, so that it is perfectly proven : 



1. That the muscovado furnished by the beet root is of a quality equal to that of 

 the cane. 



2. That the quantity of muscovado furnished by beet roots is found so thoroughly 

 proportional to the cost of its extraction and the profits obtained from the waste prod- 

 ucts of manufacture in employing them for that of rum or other spirits of the better 

 quality, and a very good vinegar, that these advantages under favorable local circum- 

 stances wholly, and under all circumstances, in a great part, compensate for the cost 

 of production of muscovado from beets, as is also the case with regard to the mus- 

 covado from the cane — the cost of extraction of which is more or less compensated for 

 by the rum extracted from the waste products they leave. 



3. That the manufacture of sugar from beet roots may become the object of an im- 

 portant industry for Europe. 



a. By the very considerable sums it will save from exportation. 



i. By the means it will furnish a large number of persons of the indigent classes to 

 procure subsistence in the manual labor it requires. 



c. By the independence in which, with regard to this staple, it places Europe and 

 other parts of the world which are really the principal depositories. 



(Signed) ACHARD. 



Cunern, near Steinau, Lower Silesia, 1808. 



The following -article, from the Moniteur of March 2, 1811, will also 

 be of interest in this connection, as corroborating the statements of 

 Achard : 



His excellency, the minister of the interior, in making his report to His Majesty 

 upon the sugar of beet roots, had hoped to be able to assure him that, according to 

 the testimony of M. Deyeux, this sugar would present the double advantage of en- 

 riching those who entered into the manufacture and cost a price low enough for con- 

 sumers. 



But if M. Deyeux was unable to give this assurance on account of the fact that the 

 main end of his work was in the interest of French speculators, to effect an improve- 

 ment upon the processes of the German chemists, we may find it in the success already 

 obtained in the establishment of the Baron de Koppy, success thoroughly recognized 

 in Germany, and of which we have an eye-witness in M. Boudet, chief pharmacist to 

 the army. 



It will be remembered that M. Achard, chemist in Berlin, who first conceived the 

 idea of making the extraction of sugar from beet roots an object of speculation and 

 manufacture, announced in the Moniteur of 1802 the advantages of this sugar, which 

 he procured by a process more perfect than that which four years before had not been 

 unreservedly accepted by the Institute of France. 



This number of the Moniteur, having reached Breslau, capital of Silesia, and con- 

 sequently in the neighborhood of the two factories said to exist in the province of 

 Prussia, M. Boudet, being there at the time, considered it of value to verify the facts 

 advanced by Achard, in order in case of need to be able to destroy or increase the im- 

 pression which the article in the Moniteur may have produped in France. He accord- 

 ingly betook himself to the house of Baron de Koppy, at Krain,* near the town of 

 Strelzlen. * and visited the manufactory. He caused to be sent to M. Parmentier a 

 memoir, an extract of which was inserted in the Bulletin de Pharmacie of the month 

 of February, 1809. 



We shall not dwell upon the interesting details into which M. Boudet entered to 

 elucidate for his countrymen the means of establishing similar manufactories in 



*In other places these are written Krayn and Strehlen. 



