58 BEET-ROOT SUGAR AND 



Agricultural Society" awarded a premium of one 

 hundred dollars to the " Northampton Beet-sugar 

 Company, for beet sugar." 



On the i3th of November, 1839, Hon. Levi Lincoln, 

 president of the " Worcester County Agricultural So 

 ciety," addressed a letter to Mr. Child, who had sent 

 him a box of sugar for exhibition. The box arrived 

 too late ; but the following extract from Mr. Lincoln's 

 letter indicates the quality of the sugar : " Availing 

 of your kind permission, samples of the sugar were 

 submitted to the inspection of severaj gentlemen. 

 The brown sugar was found to be pure, very sweet, 

 and entirely free from any bad taste, and its quality, in 

 every respect, was highly satisfactory. 



" The refined or lump sugar seemed not so well gran 

 ulated as is desirable. Still we are well satisfied that, 

 as an experiment in the manufacture, it is highly en 

 couraging, and we all felt that the country was largely 

 indebted to your intelligence and enterprise in demon 

 strating, beyond all question, how entirely this appli 

 cation of domestic industry is at her command." 



In May, 1839, Mr. Child received a letter from 

 Martial Duroy, of Boston, confectioner, from which 

 the following is an extract : 



" Having, while in France, heard the confectioners 

 in general deprecate the use of beet sugar in their 

 work, I was naturally a little prejudiced against it 

 when I was called upon by you to make some confec 

 tionery for the ' Ladies' Anti-slavery Fair.' I was 

 pleased to find, upon trial, that your raw sugar was 

 extremely easy to clarify, and that it grained freely. 

 These attributes of good and pure sugar reconciled 



