Beet Sugar Beetroot Farming Rotation and Profits in Sweden
A Swedish note on beet sugar production details a Landskrona factory’s operations. It outlines land use, crop rotation, yields of fifteen to seventeen tons per hectare, and profits of $45 to $55 per acre in gold. It discusses frost protection, storage, and refining beet root into sugar, with doubtful long term prospects depending on climate and policy.
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Beet Sugar Industry Advances Amid New Factories
The article notes intensive beet cultivation methods, seed and row spacing practices, and shift from hand sowing to machines. It describes juice analysis, crop quality, and rising factory activity in Sweden, with new plants planned near Malmo and Ystad and a Diet tax schedule starting 1872 influencing growth. The Stockholm plant, started 1869 with $111,000 capital, faced initial management losses but aims to expand after a modest beet supply.
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Halmstad
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Ystad
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United States
Beet Sugar Industry Gains Worldwide Profit and Influence
The article notes 1870 beet sugar production reaching 1.5 million pounds valued at $180,000 plus $5,000 in molasses. It cites James Soward and Howard tours of Europe showing high farm yields, premiums, and the spread of beet sugar factories. Farms in Lens Tours and Chasgart Belgium are highlighted with yields over 18 tons per acre and 20 tons per acre. The Rhenish company near Cologne runs 7,200 acres, paying farmers $8.08 per ton with pulp gratis. a factory produces 13,000–14,000 tons yearly with $66,000 profit. The piece argues beet sugar diffuses farming skill and boosts agriculture, citing Valenciaes meeting inscription on wheat growth. It ends with a note from Co. C. Andrews to Secretary Hassiton Fist in Washington.
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Tobacco Poison A Chemical Look at Nicotine from Cigars
A chemical view explains how ten Cuban cigars could contain about twelve grains of nicotine. The piece notes nicotine is absorbed through mucous surfaces and can be lethal in small doses, while acknowledging experts disagree on tobacco’s hygienic impact and human tolerance.
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Character of a Watch as Time Hurries
The passage likens a watch to modesty by keeping its hands before its face and running down its own works. It frames time as a hurried season, with John remarking on a ram chasing him as the year hastens onward.
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