THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. 



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tories in Germany can show during the same eight years. It will be noted that the quan- 

 tity of raw sugar produced per acre varied from about 1500 to a little over 3500 Ibs during 

 the eight years, averaging 2700 Ibs, with some decrease in the amount of refined sugar. 

 This is just about half the production per acre from cane on Hawaii. It is interesting to 

 observe also that the price of sugar fell 40 per cent, during these 10 years and is to-day 

 lower than ever. 



Many other facts of interest are shown by the table. The run of 220 days by the 

 factory on the 1894 crop was the longest campaign ever made by any beet sugar mill in 

 the world, but the actual hours run in the '96 campaign of 170 days were almost as 

 many, when the factory sliced an average of nearly 1100 tons of beets per day of 24 hours, 

 from which 136 tons of sugar were made daily. 



Regarding the season of 1898, P. W. Morse, the agricultural superintendent, writes: 

 "The drouth was severe on the farmers, yet taught a needed lesson in compelling 

 attention to the necessity of irrigation in our valleys that have a semi-arid climate. The 

 drouth also forced an unwelcome fallow upon the lands of many farmers, which, how- 



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SKETCH OF THE UNION SUGAR WORKS. 



Now being completed for the 1899 campaign, with a capacity of 1000 tons of beets per day. Main 

 building '240x110 feet, of brick and steel. Located in northern part of Santa Barbara county, California, 

 six miles from the ocean. 



ever, is not an unmixed evil, as among other minor benefits farmers will be partly com- 

 pensated by an increased yield next year. For 1S99 we shall pay $4.50 per ton of 2000 Ibs 

 for beets. With sufficient rainfall this winter, we shall have between 40,000 and 45,000 

 acres planted. Under favorable circumstances this should insure full campaigns for both 

 the Salinas and Watsonville factories, which are under the same management." 



SUCCESS OF THE ESTABLISHED FACTORIES. 



The Chino Valley Beet Sugar Company's factory at Chino, in San Bernadino 

 county, has had two good seasons and one poor one since the exhibit on Page 48 was made 

 up of its first five campaigns. In 1896, it worked up about 66,000 tons of beets, the crop 

 being reduced by drouth. Its campaign of 1897 was almost ideal, the factory running 151 

 days on 97,197 net tons of beets that contained an average of 15.1 per cent, sugar and 



