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small portion of powdered white sugar, 75 grammes (about tw© 

 ounces) to a quart ; stir continually with a wooden spatula. 

 The evaporation is continued for two hours. When the milk is 

 reduced to one-sixth its original amount,, and is about as viscid 

 as honey, then the steam is shut off and the thickened milk stir- 

 red violently for four or five minutes ; after this, it is transferred 

 to a copper, heated up to boiling water ; and lastly is put into 

 cylindrical tin boxes, the covers of which are fastened down by 

 a strip of lead, which surrounds them. The boxes are then left 

 in repose for twenty-four hours, and then the slip of lead is sol- 

 dered down, to seal them hermetically. They are then placed in 

 an apparatus in which they are subjected to a boiling tempera- 

 ture for ten minute:? or a quarter of an hour. It is now com- 

 plete. To use it, heat it with five or six times its bulk of water^ 

 and it resembles milk of the first quality in all respects. Extract 

 by H. Meigs. 



Dr. Antisell : The sugar beet of France is relatively small, but 

 contains more sugar; another sort has none at all, and the latter 

 yield great crops. Sugar cane gives 17 per cent of sugar, the 

 beet 7. The sugar beet of France has destroyed the importa- 

 tion of the foreign cane sugar. The manufacture of beet sugar 

 was tried in Ireland. Commerce contrived to get from govern- 

 ment a duty on it of fourteen shillings per 100 lbs. This stop- 

 ped the beet sugar ; but recently that duty has been taken off by 

 government, a million of pounds sterling have been invested in 

 beet-sugar making in Ireland. 



Professor Mapes remarked that during the continuance of that 

 duty, Mr. Guppy made a syrup out of the beets which was sold 

 as British honey, not liable to duty. 



Mr. Meigs wished the club, at its next meeting, to be prepared 

 with statistics showing for the last twenty-five years the state of 

 the agriculture of the United States; in order to show how the 

 good old method of farmers had, in thousands of farms, almost 

 wholly sterilized them, and also what modern amendments in 

 this matter have done to restore or add to the original richness of 

 land. 



