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The following data are given of the operations of this 
factory from the time it started in i 8 go: — 
GRAND ISLAND FACTORY. 
Year. 
Tons of Beets used. 
Tons refined 
Sugar Produced. 
Per Cent Sugar made 
from Beets. 
Pounds of Sugar per 
ton of Beets. 
1890 
5,000 
368 
7.36 
147 
1891 
11,500 
708 
6.16 * 
123 
1892 
13,000 
1,055 
8.12 
162 
1893 
12,000 
918 
7.65 
153 
1894 
14,000 
Factory not run. Beets 
shipped to Norfolk, 
Nebraska, Factory. 
1895 
24,300 
1,490 
6.13 * 
122 
1896 
30,100 
2,516 
8.36 
167 
1897 
39,000 
3,399 
8.72 
175 
Averages. 
18,612 
1,493 
7.50 
1.50 
This makes the extraction for 1897, 1418 pounds of 
refined sugar per acre of land. The beets used in the 1897 
run averaged, it is said, 12.87 cent sugar in the beet and 
79.5 per cent co-efficient of purity. 
Special thanks are hereby tendered to Resident Manager 
Henry S. Ferrar for courtesies extended during the visit to 
Grand Island and since then; also for numerous beet analyses 
made without charge, for the Colorado growers. 
GENERAL NEBRASKA NOTES. 
Assuming the foregoing data, as to the operations at 
the two Nebraska Beet Sugar Factories, to be correct, we 
get from reported figures of the average sugar in the beets 
used by these factories, the following tables: — 
1890 
1891 
1892 
1893 
Per cent sugar in the beets, 
15.20 
7.36 
13.30 
7.00 
14.40 
8.00 
13.30 
8.53 
Per cent sugar extracted from beets, 
Per cent of sugar lost in manufacture 
7.84 
6.30 
6.40 
4.77 
(This table would be of more value, had we also the 
average purity of the beets for the years stated, and- the 
full details up to date.) 
* The beets were low in sugar and in purity in 1891 and 1895, owing to cold, 
wet weather. 
