(10) 



503,000 lbs. Including sugar and forage, the annual value 

 must be not less than $8,000,000, and the aggregate value 

 $168,000,000 since its introduction by the Department of 

 Agriculture." 



MAPLE SUGAR. 



This industry which is of less importance in our Southern 

 country, is nevertheless of considerable value to the United 

 States. The total amount of sugar and syrup obtained from 

 this source in 1870 was equivalent to about 57,000,000 

 pounds of sugar, which at 10 cents per pound gives a total 

 value of $5,700,000. 



The manufacture of sugar from watermelons is of more 

 interest to our people than that from the sugar maple, and 

 we shall watch with interest an experiment now in progress 

 in California. A stock company, with a capital of $2,000,- 

 000 is about commencing operations, and though chemists 

 and manufacturers are rather doubtful of their financial 

 success, they enthusiastically claim that they can obtain 10 

 per cent of sugar from the juice, alcohol from the pulp and 

 rind, and 25 per cent, of oil for table use from the seeds.* 



THE SUUAR, BEET, 



Having thus briefly examined the other sources of cane 

 sugar, let us now turn to the Sugar-Beet. 



As long ago as 1747 a German chemist discovered the 

 presence of cane sugar in the white and red beet, and in 

 1796 the first factory for the manufacture of beet sugar was 

 established in Prussia. The great cost of cane sugar made 

 the new idea of obtaining it from a domestic source exceed- 



* At some future day I hope to be able to make some experimeuts with 

 the Sweet Potato, which has a large per centage of grape sugar and starch. 

 and may yet possibly form the basis of a large industry in North Caro- 

 lina and the other Southern States. 



