The American Sugar Industry; A Practical Manual on the Production of Sugar Beets and Sugar Cane, and on the Manufacture of Sugar Therefrom (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...Making our selection for mother beets will remove from sale about one-seventh, or some fourteen tons. We will have for market, then, 8C tons of beets. The second year will see the first year's operations repeated in every detail. In addition, we have to make the chemical selection of mother beets for planting, from the 14 tons reserved the previous autumn, and the planting and caring for, say, one acre of seed beets. Assuming now 28,000 beets to be analyzed and selected; two chemists, with proper appliances and assistants, can make 4000 tests per day. or this selecting can be made in seven days at a cost not to exceed $500, including everything thing except the laboratory and its permanent equipment. In this selection we will retain one-seventh of the beets, giving us 4000 roots, enough to plant one acre--the remaining six-sevenths go for cattle food. We have in operation, then, land as follows: Ten acres sown with seed and one acre planted with mothers. In the fall the beet crop is harvested, selections made as before for mother beets, and the remainder sent to the factoiy. Seed is harvested, cleaned, selected, and stored for the next year's use. The books for this season would show a small excess of expenditure over income. The third year, all operations of the second year are repeated in detail. In addition ten acres of choice land will be sown with seed selected from the previous year's crop, with the object of producing small and very rich beets. In the fall we will harvest a crop of beets for the factory and to furnish mothers for the next year; a crop of seed for further selection, and a crop of small beets of this year's growing. Land in use this year: ten acres sown with original seed; ten acres sown with our own seed of the previous year; one acre...