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PUBLISHED BV GEORGE C. BARRETT, NO. 52, NORTH MARKET STREET, (Acricultur*l Warehouse.) — T. G. FESSENDEN, EDITOR. 



vni>. XV. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1836. 



NO. 1. 



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We are indebted to the Hon. Abbott Law- 

 RENCK, M. C, for two copies of the Commercial 

 Herald, exti-a, printed at Philadelphia, containing, 

 and exclusively devoted to the following article. 

 BEET SUGAR. 

 The Immense benefits to be expected from in- 

 troducing the Sugar l?eet into tlie United States, 

 had for a considerable time occupied the atten- 

 tion of James Ronaldson, Esq.; when in the month 

 of January last he was introduced to Mr James 

 Pedder, a gentleman vvlio possessed information 

 on the subject of the Sugar Beet. Mr Pedder liad 

 been long known to John Vaughan, Esq., who 

 with Mr Jacob Snider, Jr. now took a lively in- 

 terest in the concern, and after several interviews 

 it was determined to despatch Mr Pedder to 

 France, with the view of obtaining accurate infor- 

 mation on all subjects, connected with the culture 

 of Beet and the uses to wliich it is applied. Tlie 

 responsibility and expense of this undertaking 

 were assumed by Messrs Ronaldson, Vaughan &. 

 Snider, in the confident belief that tliey would be 

 sustained by their countrymen in this laudable un- 

 dertaking. It was important that Mr Pedder 

 should be despatched immediately in order to 

 witness the process of making Sugar in France, 

 and to send out seed in time to Iir planted in the 

 United States the present season. Mr Pedder left 

 Philadelphia on the 8th day of February and his 

 mission has been attended with the most gratifying 

 success, nearly 600 pounds of seed have already 

 been received,andportionsof itdistributed through 

 various parts of the country. Several patriotic in- 

 dividuals have made contributions towards de- 

 fraying the expenses of this undertaking, in sums 

 of from ten to fifty dollars each. But the amount 

 yet received is inadequate to the expenditure. An 

 association has been formed of which James Ron- 

 aldson is President, John Vaughan Vice Presi- 

 dent, and Jacob Snider, Jr. Secretary and Treas- 

 urer. The object of this society is to collect and 

 disseminate information for the beneft of the 

 community generally without any view to pecu- 

 niary emolument. Further contributions in aid 

 of this object are respectfully solicited, and will 

 be received by the following named gentle- 

 men : — 

 JAS. RONALDSON, Esq. President, corner of 



9th and Shippen-street, 

 JOHN VAUGHAN, Vice President, 32 Walnut- 

 street, 

 JACOB SNIDER, Jr. Treasurer and Sec'y do. 



MANAGERS. 



Samuel Richards, Esq., Arch, above 9th, 



Nathan Dunn, Esq. Portico Row, 



Joseph D. Brown, Esq., Church Alley, 



Isaac S. Lloyd, Esq., Penn Square, 



Samuel Breck, Esq. 



J. S. Lovering, Esq. Church Alley, 



B. M. HoUinshead, Esq., No. 14 North 6th street.. 



Joseph Sill, Esq., Chesnut-street opposite State 



House, 

 John Richardson, Esq., 10th, near Arch-.st., 

 James Wood, Esq., 



Frederick Brown, Esq,, 5th and Chesnut-st., 

 George Zantzingcr, Esq., 25 Dock-st. 



As an increased interest is being manifested on 

 this subject, we have solicited and obtained from 

 Mr Snider, Treasurer and Secretary of the Beet 

 Sugar Society, extracts from various letters re- 

 ceived by him from James Pedder, Esq. the agent 

 of the Society who is now in France seeking in- 

 formation relating to the Beet Root and manufac- 

 ture of Sugar. According to our notic-e on Sat- 

 urday, we now give the extracts. 



Boulogne, March 11, 1836. 



" I begin by saying, if such a climate, with suirh 

 a very inferior kind of Beet, the common Mangel 

 Wurtzel, of all colors, hollow and half rotten, they 

 are able to obtain nine per cent, of Saccharine, 

 America is a Gold Mine. The crushing mill is 

 driven by five bullocks in harness, the roots are 

 pressed towards a revolving barrel, set with teeth 

 and the pulp falls into a box below, — a boy takes 

 about a gallon of pulp and puts it into a bag which 

 is then thrown on a wicker frame work which 

 rests on a small wagon. This is continued until 

 15 or 20 bags are heaped on the wagon ; the top 

 1)eing covered by a wicker frame ; these are plac- 

 ed under the press and an exhausting i)ump set 

 to work, the juice is extracted in about two min- 

 utes, which is conveyed by tioughs to a large 

 cistern, and from thence it Islet off into a range 

 of evaporating pans made of copper which work 

 by steam. 



I here saw many very fine Oxen fatting upon 

 the dry cake of the Beet, sleek and fat as butter, 

 and which I did not expect, some hundreds of 

 sheep fed with the same in troughs and confined 

 to the house, many of them very fat, and all look- 

 ing extremely well ; they had all been shorn and 

 their fleeces turned into money. Some of these 

 would weigh 16 lb. a 18 lb. per quarter, a large 

 size for French sheep. # » # » 



What I write will always be the dictation of 

 my firm conviction at the time I write : I may 

 have cause to change my opinions as 1 go on, which 

 I ought to iiave no objection to do, and which I 



will candidly acknowledge. 



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The exertions making in France and through- 

 out Germany to sim|)lify the process of preparing 

 Sugar from the beet are immense and increasing. 

 At the recent meeting of the German Naturalists 

 at Boun, the section of agriculture and rural econ- 

 omy was almost entirely occupied with papers 

 and discussions on the subject. At Valencienes a 

 manufacturer has succeeded in discovering a meth- 

 od of crystalizing the Saccharine matter without 

 producing molasses. 



Arras, Saturday, March 25tb, 1836. 

 J. S.NiDF.R, Jr., Esq. 



Dear Sir : — I have been most unexpectedly in- 



troduced to Professor ■ 



who is here on a mis- 



sion from the gnveinment of Prussia to learn the 

 best mode of transplaiitmg the sugar manufacture 

 into that country. lie is accompanied by a 

 draughtsman, a student from the Royal College of 

 Arts ; and they are two of the most charming 

 people I ever m(!t. I shall obtain information 

 which money could not purchase, and which will 

 he inestimable; it will be the result of theory and 

 experience whijh they have been acquiring at 

 great expense on this their tour of observation and 

 which will se(;nre for us the most complete suc- 

 cess. But here I must admit that uuich of the 

 poetry with which the culture and uianufacture of 

 beet sugar has been endjcllished has gone out. I 

 can no longer see that it will almost prepare itself 

 for use and drop in crystals into our cofiie, but I 

 have instead of this poetical fiction, the most per- 

 fect conviction of complete success in our object, 

 based on common sense and the experience of 

 every day's occurrence, which far more than bal 

 ances what has been lost ; for tliis well grounded 

 hope I am mainly indebted to the Professor, whose 

 convictions as to the certainty of the process and 

 the profit of the nndertakiug are completed by 

 what he has witnessed at an establishment here, 

 to which 1 have access by means of a letter from 

 J. B. and where 1 met with hiui and his iutelligent 

 friend. I have now their ground for my proceed- 

 ing. When I showed the Professor the different 

 accounts wliich had been pabllshed, especially one 

 at Westphalia, vuVich shews, almost, that the su- 

 gar will form of itself, let but the ingredients 

 be brought into' contact with each other, he smiled 

 and said he knew bow to value these accounts ; 

 they proceeded iu a great measure from the real 

 facility with which sugar might be prepared by 

 the best means now in use in this part of the coun- 

 try, and which is truly astonishing to those who 

 have seriously gone into examination of the thing ; 

 he has given me to understand that I must not 

 expect to find the refining process connected with 

 the al)Solute formation of the sugar ; that he 

 says is not necessary nor desirable ; " let but a 

 man be able to make on the same premises 

 6 or 7 lbs of molasses for fattening bullocks and 

 sheep, iu addition to 15 lbs. of the expressed cake 

 to mix with them, and if he is not content, why 

 then let him go to vapor huntivg." -^ ■, 



The next ami most imporlant manufactory 'ift-; 

 the world is situated in this town; 1 have visited 

 it tliiee times in company with the Professor : it 



belongs to a Mr , the most iutelligent man I 



have met by far. He was engaged in the manu- 

 facture of sugar from the Beet in the time of Bon- 

 aparte and Chaptal, has continued it ever since, 

 and has lately adopted a mode for himself which 

 t>idsfair to obtain in the end universal adoption: 

 this was the work which a gentleman at Paris 

 said I should not be allowed to see and study, 

 without an expense of 15,000f.— To this noble 

 establishment I have free access by means of a 

 letter from my friend J. B. ; but I find it quite im- 

 possible to go into a full description of all its 



