Report on the Culture of the Sugar Beet and the Manufacture of Sugar Therefrom in France and the United States (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. 1880 Excerpt: ...industrielles), for all the injury caused on account of beets, with no distinction between the manufacturer and the grower, so that the grower, whose beets are not received by the factory by default of quality, has left him the right to carry them home at the cost of the manufacturer. One factory has paid 32,000 francs (about $6,400) in a single year. Manufacturing grants are suppressed by the rasping-works and pipe-lines. All that remains is the insignificant cost of the care of the ground in which the conduit is buried, and in place of a sort of antagonism between the manufacturer and the administration, there is complete harmony by reason of the convergence of otherwise opposing interests. Another serious advantage is the non-concentration of the entire personnel in the factory. Division of labor is always of highest interest. Rasping and pressing, especially with hydraulic presses, employ the most numerous portion of the workmen. The requirements of the rasping-works alone are therefore often beyond the possibilities of the local population. Added to this is another and stronger reason, that several rasping-works of the same power is an absolute impossibility in the factory. It is an easy thing to leave the laborers at home, where they may remain, by putting the rasping-works in the distant villages. The farmers of certain localities may not be able to grow beets on account of their special situation. Removed, not by real distance, but by too pronounced accidents of the land, it is impossible for them to devote themselves to a culture the products of which are not transportable. Local rasping-works resolve the difficulty. Its pipes may be conformed to the most variable lands, and carry to the factory all the juice of the roots, leaving the pulps on the ...