view to alcohol manufacture ; not spirits of a second- 

 ary quality, but rectified alcohol fit for the use of 

 laboratories and pharmacies, marking, say, 95 B. 

 This evidently requires a special beet-distilling appa- 

 ratus. It would lead to a positive failure if attempts 

 were made to utilize a whiskey-still, or some other 

 similar appliances. As for special work special appli- 

 ances are required, so in beet-juice distillation volatile 

 oils are to be contended with, which are unfamiliar to 

 the grain distiller. The refuse pulp may be sold for 

 manure, or, better still, used as a fodder. If the latter 

 plan be adopted, it may be safely said that alcohol 

 may be manufactured from the beet that could com- 

 pete with corn or any other substance (having sugar 

 in its composition), for the reason that the mash from 

 a corn distillery is nothing like as valuable for a 

 fodder as the beet refuse. Even if this alcohol be sold 

 at cost, it would leave to the manufacturer a profit 

 from the increase in weight of the animals attached to 

 all well-organized beet-sugar factories. (The distil- 

 lery utilizes the molasses, from the refuse of which 

 potassa is obtained. From the refuse, after potassa 

 remains a fertilizer which represents nearly all the ele- 

 ments that had previously been extracted from the 

 soil. If farms are in the immediate neighborhood, this 

 will be to them an immense advantage.) We beg to 

 call attention to the fact that our system of taxation is 

 such that our Government knows exactly the number 

 of gallons distilled, hence can be known the 

 amount of sugar the primitive grain or root con- 

 tained. Consequently, after several years of experience 

 in growing these roots, a company could be easily 

 formed, for the reason that exact figures could be 

 given, such as the average amount of sugar that roots 

 contained during the four years of their growth upon 

 a given soil, for example, and not based upon European 



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