Proceedings of the stated meeting, held Wednesday, June 19,1895

✍ Scribed by Wm.H. Wahl

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1895
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 140
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(85)90118-8

✦ Synopsis

an average of 230" 7 pounds per ton of beets worked on an average extraction of It" 5 per cent. The average yield of beets per acre was 9"9 tons. Accepting these figures as a basis of calculation for the requirements of the Union, the consumption of sugar during 1894 was 2,o24,648 tons, or 4,535,2II,52o pounds. To obtain this sugar there would be needed at least 2,0o0,oo0 acres of land, if the yield be ten tons to the acre. and, if beets sell for $4 per ton, the money for these roots would represent the enormous sum of $8o,ooo.ooo that would be put into circulation among our farming population.

If we admit that farmers receive gratuitously fifty per cent. in weight of beets, furnished by the residual pulp as it leaves the process, this would be sufficient to feed not less than 2,oo0,oo0 head of cattle during the three winter months when fodders are most expensive.

If we admit two pounds increase per head and diem, there would result 4o0,oo0,0oo pounds of meat from a product that is now receiving only a limited amount of attention.