SEMI- TROTH: CALIFORNIA. 
Smgar |ndnstty. 
to pay as good profits til the procurer n 
most other crops, and prohahly bnttrr than 
a good many now in faror. Hut it will tak* 
* good many more fact* than hare thus f, r 
I «»"»• ^ r < >r « »® to convince me that with 
the enormous adrantagre a (Tor 
. , feasibility of cheap drying b 
J *'»»■»'O (tet .I ,h, b« m.,., .. - 
tom of the fait* m regard to the business and trnhnicaibaM* fl i - 
augar beet industry of tbia comity, and we j fully gompeta here on the w ,tl. , 
t»U»t say that to us, it ttoma that the bottom sugar cane or Sorghum. 
THE 8UGAB BEET. 
“IB TIIKHK A RIGOUR IX TilR WOOD P|i.*V ' 
IK TilKRK IS, WHO WILL OKT HIM OLT? 
W K 
rded by the 
STOAHf 
Drar g 
a hardly coim-atablo, 
The fact* are about a« follow* Messrs. 
Nadeau A Gunnrrt bad about Keren hun¬ 
dred acrea of sugar boe»s grown. The ►am¬ 
ple* of green beet* grown here upon Com 
parlson with the standard sugar licet > f ww 
(.rermany, aliow that thoao grown in thin | 
county are fully up to thn alandar.I. Tim 
Very respectfully 
iHm W.IImutn. 
Alvarado, Nov. 1, l*hU. 
E. IT, //t/jtfn/, Unintmly of t'al 
Dear Sin—Tim Atth day of Septerob*i 
we received about fifty ton# of dried b**cti 
' Mr. R. Nadeau. o( Iroa Angr|.t< 
u factored intc 
l* ireth beet* were polaria 
f after receipt. The rem.lt* 
ally with Utoa« obtained t 
??■“.?*£? - - - 
at the Horticultural rmr m October was i .. .1 i . 
..cdi.,,1, Urn, «nd from </.. ju,l„„ “j'.ll' 
- -—•first f* 
for sugar making purpose*. 
Mr. (Jennert failed to nia 
ght 1 
lent to t 
of < 
1 j Ijf teat th« f-asibility uf making sugar fr.m 
with the crude machinery ho hS. ri ot'd,' Xild'U.o* 'miaomd try l -V ' -' 
»t Alv.r«Jo,»l“, .cried u,. . ...... 
too, of dried beets inlo » N,. I qu.l.ty „f i„.,, „ 
sugar; the only trouble being that the per Mr v. i, ‘ , ,, 
oontage of sugar was le*. than 20 per ^ n v II" l . 
” i—" | v 1 1 l! ; 
Standard .'•ugar Company, a* poor results \y. m 
obtained from the eight tons. 
The .ample. iIMIm. Wh. Iw l.ir....6,i I.” 
to Prof. Eugene \V. Ildgard, Umscriuly of „ 
California, and so the samples sent t.' the j t'>>i«n*riij.r o -. 
Standard Sugar Ootnnanv ai AKarada. *r.. .... ~: r 
InsctA. We mad.' two poltlMalkni with 
I the following results, both taken fro 
o the samples sunt to the j KUkri*™i«r 
Standard Sugar Company at Alvarado, are 
best explained in the following correspond 
encc, which we find in the «S /•'. .If- 
Vmjvbrsity or CAurtmxia, f 
Bl UK.aT.KV, Oft. 4, iNMl. \ 
E. Th, (totm rl, E»q , Loa Atujt-h. 
Die\« Sir—T he machine sliced and dried 
sun-dried beets Bent bv you arrived in et 
cellent condition; their fair and fresh t.uti- 
comparing very favorably willi the sample 
received last year, some of which haring 
been out too thick wore a little mouldy. 
So for as the keeping quality is roni-crncd 
your operation* have certainly been very 
successful, and the ease with win. I. the 
slice can bo extracted by maceration ought 
to render the manufacture of sugar from 
thoiu easy enough. Their composition wi 
found to be as follows: 
Cano Sugar.. . . 51 
Moisture. 11 J ! 
Ash.. . 5,4 j 
Other organic matters by diffusion. 31j 
Total...100 
11 is easy to sec that a material eoOaiat 
ing of more than half of sugar, and caps 
bio of indefinite preservation, stand* on s 
very different binds both a* regard* Iran* rV ' u , i 
uiirtatioD and manufacture from the Imaey, 1 , , 
bulky and comparatively low y«lu<< beet .. *' 
from which it is so cheaply produced. ! Hoping you < 
If there he any doubt that host sugar reply, we reman 
factories can be made profitable in t alitor j Ke*| 
nia, it can hardly be doubtful that the pio- i Staiko 
duction of dried sugar bccla can be made, By K. H, Dvan. 
[ Th«M beets were worked, and the polar 
i rations were made by Mr. Win. Kullburg. 
who has charge of the technical department 
uf our sugar work*, and has had experience 
in working dried beets in Europe. • • * 
Believing you must hare been deceirad 
in some way in regard tu the sample* sent 
you, and knowing that from the pnmtii.ai 
you occupy In the State t’nireraity that 
your stalr-menta in regard to maltera of this 
kind would lw recognised a* authority, and 
case of deception being practiced upon 
w, would lead enterprising and hooent 
en into error, we hare taken pains to pre 
cure from Mr. Nadeau sample* of hi* fivh 
beets t» well as those dried by him, ami 
take the liberty to forwird the •.mr to you 
to enable you to make a lurthrr test from 
liable samples. Th* samplra of green | 
Iwcts are some what wilted and dried m 
requeneo of having been a n long o» 
hing this plaaa, ounaequctitly wdl ; 
arise more than if taken frreh fn>m the j 
ground. I givm the 
burg's polarisation, m 
October "JO, 
r I KxiWpt in « higher purity cneflli 
. lypriM- I,..! ih.i _ l 
. ep, „ tn the man point, your f. 
ularuation 
• • « beeta taken from (wo diiferer.i fi-l.l. ... 
• tf-vwn .hi page two of your U 
,, .jri*e»; that i«, ail show a sugar p 
■tier, also 
; Now aims th*> juice cunatitiitw abo.it ri 
, per cent, of the fresh best, th,. would oor- 
! f* F sMil to « little lira* than It p. 
- .gar in the green best; and ti 
r ram of four to ons, accepted by y 
I j"ato» up about 4-i per cent, in 
f rent, of 
>'*, St the 
"H. would 
the ah.to' 
mg M per cynt. of moiaisrs. A d*t»rt»in- 
. _ l it. -_ ■ . . 
7 : r , m aKampie l , 
i f l TTtshed me by Mr. Nadeau, giva 
inml twsta 
it il.l per 
1 r«nt. of sugar, corn .bursting. u 
, (x -ihla, th- ptdartrstiant ma.is 
i; v»*'iotptren« of the iireportion , 
fresh bouts to one uf dry, | , 
."dvrstoMd Uw statement appafw 
f!"" page one ot your letter that 
nearly a. 
ii s hllil 
tlm^lar! 
<»» “1 »ip« 
i bests at the rat* of A to 1. Ori ,ta face it 
•jgWR* it fnfty doulde, or over tu t >sr «ent. 
1 , I’lrase revise and einiam v-m, ... 
:; this point. 1 remark that the In. 
- at by you is much more mout a; 
, ta>te much less »w*M than the *ar 
| m.h-4 by M«o Na- lean and G« 
id .ample 
-nnert. 1 
us which 
! rv'-Ur 0 '* Pr ”* T,U vJjf ren-vtlVil 
K. W Riu.aro. 
1 AI.VUU-, Xur. ;j, I 
! /•"✓. A*. W Niff. *rJ, l Mrsmt] 
laid ! 
Drab 8im— Vour* of <th Inal. 
; i-*i»ed, with rredt -d the pwlar 
With lima* Haiire.1 hr Mr Kuill 
>unr, and 
1 ran pnwerd U» say , “ 1 sin at a loss to un¬ 
ite! stand the statement apparently made on 
ipaga 1st of your letter that the p.dar.«- 
of Mr. Ku 
