No. 3. 



Manufacture of Suga?' from the Beet. 



97 



purpose in this country. Success is certain 

 — but the greatest advantage to be obtained 

 by such a step is, this person will see the pro- 

 cess, conducted with the utmost facility, with- 

 out diiliculty Of I'ear tor the result; and to a 

 prolit which will, wiien taken together, aston- 

 ish him : the only tear is, that a sufficient 

 quantity of beets will not be obtained the 

 present ye;ir, for the full employment of the 

 works ; and just as they are about to test the 

 final results, their operations might be para- 

 lyzed, and the business be again doomed to 

 abeyance. This consideration urges me again 

 to press upon the consuhration o^i those, who 

 intend seriously to go into the concern, the 

 expediency of not attempting more the com- 

 ing season, than to grow very large quantities 

 of roots, and erect a perfect establishment, for 

 conducting the operations with improved ma- 

 chinery — a work, quite sufficient to occupy 

 the time until next September, and fully too. 

 Other establishments are preparing to ope- 

 rate on a few acres of roots onl}^ — these are 

 too much like experiments, and will be dep- 

 recated by all who liave the ability to see 

 that time and capital only, are required to in- 

 sure the most perfect success. VVould any 

 one think, for a moment, of going into the cul- 

 tivation of the cane, with the intention of es- 

 tablishing a sugar house, with any, but very 

 ample means, and with time sufficient to con- 

 struct and erect the necessary buildings, ma- 

 chinery and apparatus ? Just so ought it to 

 fee v/ith the beet sugar business — a business 

 of far more real importance in its results, 

 and with equal magnitude of enterprise; for 

 a plantation of four hundred acres might be 

 made to produce twenty-four millions of 

 pounds of roots ; two millions, one hundred 

 and sixty thousand pounds of sugar — upwards 

 of fourteen hundred hogsheads — forty-eight 

 thousand poimds of melasses, and three mil- 

 lions eight hundred and forty thousand pounds 

 of cakes — the two last articles, sufficient to 

 fatten about eight thousand sheep ! — a concern 

 extensive enough to employ many hands, and 

 of such importance as to demand a careful 

 and circumspect distribution of the means 

 adopted to call forth all its energies. 



On the advantage of importing machinery 

 from France, I confess I am somewhat skep- 

 tical — while engaged on my mission to that 

 country, as agent to the " Beet Sugar Soci- 

 ety of Philadelphia," it was my business to 

 examine all the establishments which lay in 

 my route, and to which I had the most unlim- 

 ited means of access, by letters of introduc- 

 tion, furnished by some of the first men of 

 this country and of England ; and I am sure 

 ray excellent and intelligent friends in France 

 will permit me to say — and I do it not in dis- 

 paragement — their machinery is far inferior 

 to that with which I have been engaged, since 



the time that I returned from that mission, an 

 event which was tha means of an introduction 

 to Jos. S. Lovering, Esq., a gentleman to whose 

 generous and unreserved communications in 

 the business of refining, I am indebted for in- 

 formation and experience of the highest or- 

 der, and which I could not elsewhere have 

 obtained ; and which enables me to form an 

 opinion on the subject of machinery, which 

 is, I confess, unfavorable to that at present 

 in use in France. I repeat, however, the 

 stimulus which will accrue to tlie undertak- 

 ing, from the circumstance of their agent 

 freeing and feeling the facility with which 

 sugar is made from the beet, will be of the 

 greatest importance ; insuring to it — if it be 

 commenced with a sufficient capital, with an 

 abundant supply of roots, and perfect ma- 

 chinery — the most fcrfect success. 



From three years experience, in a situation 

 unexampled in the means of information, and 

 where my attention has been led to the con- 

 sideration of improved machinery for the man- 

 ufacture of beet sugar, as well as for the cul- 

 tivation of the crop, I have been enabled to 

 construct models of the different apparatus 

 necessary, which will, I conceive, facilitate 

 the business, and cost much less in the fabri- 

 cation, than do those in general use, where 

 the improved modes of wcvking have been 

 adopted — an important object in a country 

 where the high price of machinery compels 

 purchasers to go to foreign countries for their 

 supplies. The models are 



1. A set of three Harrows, on a new construction. 



2. A Drill, for sowin;? the beet and other seeds. 



3. A Barrow Hoe, for cleanins the crops. 



4. A Hand H'le, French pattern. 



5. A Root Ontter. 



tj. A Self-Skimming Double Milk Pan. 



FOR THE SUGAR HOUSE. 



7. A Rasp, for crushing roots. 



8. Clais and cloths for pressing. 



9. A Stand and Bags for sediment and scums, 

 in. A Press, on a most convenient principle. 



11. A pair of Defocating Pans, new construction, 

 li. French Tap, for drawing off clear. 



13. Apparatus for washing animal carbon. 



14. Do. for drying and re-calcining do. 



15. Mechanical Filter, new construction. 



16. Chemical Filter. 



17. Steam Generator, Boiling Pan, and Evaporator, 



united. 



18. Machine for evaporating from 7° to 21°. 



19. Steam Generator, and Boiling Pan, united. 



20. Sn'okeconsuming fire places. 



21. A Beet cutter, for the dessicating process. 



^I'o a person of capital and enterprise, 



* The business of sugar making from the beet— un- 

 like many other businesses— may be taken up and 

 pursued to the end; or if difficulties arise, bo as to 

 jtrfvp.nt the accomplishment of \he undertaking, all is 

 not Inst — in many cases nothing need be lost— for if 

 thf possibility of such an event be kept in view at the 

 time of the erection of the buildincs, thfty might be 

 made to take a form which will permit them to be 

 turned to other purposes ; and a great portion of them 

 will be required for the housing and feeding of the cat- 

 tle and sheep with the crops, with space for steaming 



