No. 4. 



Beet Sugar — On Saving Liquid Manure. 



55 



To the Editor of ilie Farmers' Cabinet. 



Sugar Beets and Beet Sugar. 



Lot Pugh, Esq., of Cincinnati, has culti- 

 vated most successfully the sugar beet, on his 

 farm near that city. Last year he raised 50 

 tons of beets to the acre, and his crop is nmcli 

 better the present season. 



The manager of the farm says that it re- 

 quires but little, more labor to raise Jifty tons 

 of beets than fifty bushels of corn, while the 

 former is quite as good for horses, much bet- 

 ter for cattle, and rather better for stock 

 hogs. He also asserts that sucking calves 

 preferred beets, when properly prepared, to 

 milk. 



Although cattle and hogs will eat beets in 

 a raw state, still they are much better when 

 boiled. The apparatus and fixtures used by 

 Mr. Pugh for boiling or rather steaming, food 

 for 300 hogs and 40 or 50 cows with other 

 stock, cost about $ 150, and consumes a quar- 

 ter of a cord of wood per day. 



Mr. Frederic Le Clerc, from France, who 

 had studied the beet sugar making in France, 

 in order to render himself useful in the 

 United States in this new branch of industry, 

 and who is now engaged in experiments in 

 the same at Ludlow's station, near Cincmnati, 

 Ohio, writes under date 3d September, 1637. 



" My last experiment was made on the last 

 of August, on a'small quantity of juice — only 

 a glass full— and to day, the third day, hav- 

 ing put it on a plate to crystallize, it is full 

 of°the most beautiful crystals that I iiave 

 ever seen. Mr. L. and myself are overjoyed, 

 for many reasons, principally, because wliat 

 you were so much desiring is accomplished. 

 The manufacture of beet sugar on a large 

 scale is every way possible. I have seen by 

 my last experiments, that the beet roots here 

 are richer than in the north of France. In 

 Ohio, certainly, there has not been for seve- 

 ral years, a season so little favorable to the 

 formation of the sugar principle, as the pre- 

 sent one. It remains now to be known if this 

 industry can be profitably conducted, which I 

 doubt. I shall endeavor to make out some 

 details on this head. My manual on beet 

 sufar making is now translated, and 1 shall 

 have some good additions to make to it, 

 founded on my experience, and touching tiie 

 state of things relating thereto in this coun- 

 try." 



The above is a hastily made translation of 

 the substance of Mr. Le Clerc's letter. His 

 doubt, as to the practibility of the manufac- 

 ture of beet sugar on a large scale, being 

 made profitable, is to be expected, because 

 he is not yet well acquainted with our re- 

 sources for labor saving and rapid working. 



We only want evidence that good sugar can 

 be easily produced from the beet root. There 

 is ample ingenuity and perseverance to do 

 the other in the country. 



J. S. 



ISeet Sugar. 



If the farmers that have raised the sugar 

 beet this season, would send to the ofiice of 

 the Farmers' Cabinet an account of the quan- 

 tity of roots they may have to spare, with the 

 price they would sell them for per ton, they 

 will meet with immediate attention, as a gen- 

 tleman who has been some time out of busi- 

 ness, has employed his leisure time in ex- 

 perimenting on the beet and other vegetables, 

 containing saccharine matter, has succeeded 

 in making good sugar from beets, and would 

 establish a manufactory of beet sugar in or 

 near this city, if a supply of the roots could 

 be had at a moderate price — if not, he intends 

 going to the west. 



Piiiladelpliia, September 12, 183". 



For the Farmers" Cabinet. 



Many inquiries have been made of the 

 writer of this, respecting the best method of 

 destroying tlie " Daisey," or " Paxson's 

 Clover," as some call it, and not having prac- 

 tical knowledge sufficient to answer the ques- 

 tion, I take the liberty of asking for informa- 

 tion, through the columns of the Cabinet. 

 Most farmers are, or ought to be aware of the 

 pernicious effects of this weed, for when once 

 It obtains a footing, it is very hard to eradi- 

 cate. J. K. 



N. Lisbon, Ohio, Sth mo. 1837. 



On Saving liiquid Manure. 



BY G. T. DALE. 



No branch of economy has been more neg- 

 lected than this, though the attention of 

 farmers and horticulturists has frequently 

 been called to it. I remember some years 

 aero, when I was a boy, being for some months 

 at a farm-house, where there was a spacious 

 farm-yard. The whole of the valuable liquid 

 from this yard was suffered to run avv'ay, and 

 was lost in the ditches. After some time, a 

 part of the wall surrounding the yard, being 

 undermined by the drainings running under 

 it, fell down. I then asked the farmer if it 

 would not be a good thing to have a mew or 

 cistern to collect it, instead of allowing it to 

 run across the road as it had done for years. 

 The answer I got was, " It did not much sig- 

 nify;" and the wall was repaired. Our Eng- 

 lish agriculturists are, in this respect, cer- 

 tainly not quite so sharp as their neighbors 

 on the continent, where all drainings from 

 their dung-hills, stables, cow-houses, &c., 



