No. 5. 



Remarks on the Manufacture o/ Sugar Beet. 



147 



extent of the exhibition, it appears that the 

 whole business is gone through within one 

 day. 



Tlie Show was held at the new Cattle 

 Market, on the 27tJi September. The stock 

 was arranged in classes around the yard, and 

 •when viewed from the gallery erected for the 

 ladies had a very pleasing eftect. 



The seeds, roots, cheeses, and wool were 

 accommodated in the sheds belonging to the 

 market; and so great was the number of im 

 plements entered, that a small field adjoining 

 had to be fenced in on purpose for the e.xhibi- 

 tion of that particular class. Large and 

 numerous premiums were awarded to the 

 successful competitors. The next day the 

 comparative merits of the ploughs were tried 

 practically and excited great interest. 



Many valuable hints may be drawn from 

 the proceeding of English and Scotch agri- 

 culturists, and it would be well for our Penn- 

 sylvania farmers to profit by their superior skill 

 and experience. 



Is not the plan of fencing in an enclosure 

 and making a moderate charge for admittance 

 worth serious consideration 1 I would throw 

 out this hint for the Philadelphia Agriciiltural 

 Society particularly ; if feasible, they might 

 profit mucli by it; increasing their accommo- 

 dations, enlarging their premiums, and thus 

 holding out stronger inducements to contribu- 

 tors. 1 would not wish to be considered as 

 urging the propriety of the measure, but on- 

 ly as soliciting the attention of those most 

 immediately interested. It may or may nnt 

 be deemed expedient. To the Horticultural 

 Society it is a source of great profit, and an 

 essential means of confering benefits. 



A Farmer. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Further Hcmnrks oh the Manufactnrc of 

 Siiiijar from the Beet Root« 



Sir, — Permit me to say, by way of post- 

 cript to the article on the mannt'actnre of 

 sugar from the beet, at p. 94 of the Cubinef 

 for October, that the process by dessicalion 

 does not injure, as it is very irenerally be- 

 lieved to do, the pulp for feeding cattle, sheep, 

 &c. The improved mode of niacerat on now 

 in practice, leaves it as valuable for the pur- 

 pose of feeding stock, as that which is pro- 

 duced by crushing with the rasp and press- 

 ing; after which it only requires to be mould- 

 ed into form, by the powerof a common press. 



ft is generally admitted that sugar of a 

 oetter quality, and more in quantity, can be 

 ontaincd by dessication, than by rasping and 

 prf^ssinor; but the tardy mode which has been 

 adopted for drying the root, has hitherto ope- 

 jfated as an interdiction to the introduction of 

 llie process upon a large scale ; means of ef- 



fecting this might, however, easily be de- 

 vised. 



I beg you to accept a free but faithful 

 translation of a paper on this subject, which 

 I have received from France. I find, by late 

 accounts from that country, that the modes 

 of manufacture now in operation, are enabling 

 the manufacturers to send into the market a 

 very superior sugar, and at a profit which 

 enables them to cope with that produced from 

 the cane, as well as to pay the vexatious and 

 impolitic impost of the government, which, 

 in its poverty, it has been compelled to levy, 

 as a means of raising supplies. 



Translation of a Circular addressed to the 

 Manufadurers of Indigenous Sugar, 

 by MoNs. Laurance, Grace par Mailli 



(^Charente hiferieusc.) 



" Sir, — I have the honor to address you on 

 the subject of a new process, for the produc- 

 tion of sugar from the beet, which I have 

 been fortunate to bring to perfection in this, 

 the conclusion of my crushing season. It ia 

 based upon my plan of late years, but being 

 ignorant of chemistry, it has employed me 

 many hours before I could bring it to that 

 perfection which I have the confidence to be- 

 lieve will, in the end, cause it to be adopted 

 by all fabricators of indigenous sugar. It ia 

 an extraordinary fact, which has put to fault 

 all science, that from one thousand pounds of 

 pulp, the juice of which is 5° by saccharome- 

 ter, I obtain nine hundred and ninety-two 

 pounds of juice at 5°, and four hundred and 

 forty-four pounds at 2.50°, and I offer to prove 

 this, mathematically, publicly or privately. 



" Consider, sir, the great advantages which 

 must arise from this discovery. In this pro- 

 cess no more bag=^, no more clais, no more 

 powerful hydraulic pre.-ses are requisite, and 

 the whole apparatus for the manufacture of 

 tour hundred hectolitres in twenty-four hours, 

 v\ill amount to a very small sum — no fear of 

 icrmentation, even after twenty-four hours 

 extraction of the juice — the bad roots can be 

 u>ed as well as the good:* the work, simple, 

 and more easily performed, than by the usual 

 method : the defecation, concentration and 

 finishing being performed over naked fires 

 with the greatest facility; the pulp, equally 

 fit for cattle, after being pressed properly to- 

 gether. I will warrant that the yield shajl 

 be greater than what has hitherto been ob- 

 tained by any other process. You will per- 

 ceive that I obtain more than one hundred 

 per cent, of juice of undiminished weight, and 

 this must give a great and profitable result; 

 but you will understand why I do not give 

 the result in fic'ures, as so much must depend 

 upon the quality of the beets ; I only warrant 



* Thi.s is vnnecessarily good. 



