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i 884 > ] Juice of the Cane and of the Beet-root. 
Water 
Sugar 
Other vegetable matters 
Inorganic matter (ash)... 
• • • 
• # • 
• • • 
• • • 
79*60 
• •• mi 20 00 
• • • mi O 20 
• • • mi 021 
IOO’OI 
Weight of solid matters, 20*41. 
Ihe following analysis of beet-juice is extracted from 
opon s Encyclopaedia of the Industrial Arts and Manu- 
factures ” : — 
Water ; 
Sugar 
Other vegetable matters 
Inorganic matter (ash) 
... 86*612 
... 11*250 
... 1*467 
... 0*671 
100000 
Weight of solid matters, 13*388. 
These analyses show us that for every 100 tons of sugar 
in 400 tons of the juice of the cane, there are only 52 
tons of sugar in the same quantity (400 tons) in the juice of 
The beet-root : this of course is a very serious difference ; 
but this difference is greatly enhanced when the amount of 
sugar produced on an acre of land by growing the cane, and 
on an acre of land by growing beet, and the relative value 
of the land in the West Indies and on the Continent are 
taken into account. At the time when Liebig wrote, 10 cwts. 
of sugar on an average existed in the beet-root grown on an 
acre of the best land in Germany, whilst the amount of 
sugar existing in the sugar-cane grown on an acre of land 
in the West Indies amounted to from 40 to 50 cwts., whilst 
the rent of the land in the West Indies was only one-tenth 
of what it was on the Continent : these proportions may 
have somewhat altered since that time, but a very wide 
margin still remains in favour of the sugar-cane. Then 
again the analyses show us that for every 100 of sugar in 
the juice of the cane there is present along with it only i*oo 
of vegetable and 1*05 of inorganic impurities, whereas along 
with every 100 of sugar in the juice of the beet there exists 
13*04 of vegetable and 5*96 of inorganic impurities. And if 
it were not for the presence of the vegetable impurities 
white sugar would be obtained direct from the juice without 
the juice having to undergo any purification, as it would be 
absolutely free from all organic impurities, and, furthermore, 
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