THE ANALYST. HO’M% GROWN SUGt.BR. TIIE question of tho oultivation of sugar beets has recently been prominently brought before the public in consoquenco of ZG company having acquired a factory at Lavenham, whero n few years ago an osporiment OP producing English grown sugm was tried on a large scalo. Buch an outcry hae recently been raised by English sugar rehers that a portion of the publio hair with delight the mggestion of growing in England some portion of tho sugar which is annually consumod in the British Isles. The sugar bade has recentIy undergone such enormous strides, anil. fie annual oonsumption hns inctreasod 80 rapidly, while the produotion in our own colonies has in ~ome WB~B, notably Ausirdia, been almosti sufficient to mpply th0 wants of the .entire colony, thus closing a market Tphioh would probably have in time rivalled the home market itself, Tho enormous consumption of sugar in England and the large guastiw which we export abroad, has naturally caused our continental neighbonre to consign raw and refined beet sugar to our market, and, aided by the free trade polioy of our Governments and the bounty system, they are enabled to undersell our own refiners and ha;rass them considerably with rosped to the prices obtainable for the refined article-hence the paisort d’dtrt? for the present outcry of home-grown sugar.The experiment of growing sugar beets in this country is by no means new-at Ieast one large venture besides that of Mr. James Dunoan’s, whidh had for its object the produotion of dmhol from the saccharine matter in the beet, resulted in a loss to the originator of the ~sdheme, n e s e two fdures ocomed not from any want of enterprise or lack of capitall on the part of tho promoters of tho sohemes, nor yet from the difbulty of preparing sugar or distilling alcohol ; both theso processes were well known and ably worked, and although it may bo true that superior methods of manufacturing and refh6ng beet sugar h v e recenay been discovered, yot in tho yeam 1869 to 1873, when the Lavetdam factory was in operrction, no complaint was made as to the inability of the process then worked to ezrtract neazly tho whole of the available sugar present in the beet juice: ht Borne rospeots beet sugar makhg is a more certh and easier operation than m&nufdmhg s u p from the sugar cane, because the beet juice contdns little or no unorgstallizable sugar or glumse, and the presence of an exoeas of this substance frequently prevents the mn0 grower from oonwrting his crop into EL sdisfadiory marketable article.Add to this the fact that in our own angar growing difddchs, within two or three moeks’ steam from London, the estates mo, to a, considerable extent, in the hands of small fEtrmers, who have neither tho aeoeaary amount of knowlege or capital to successfully114 TFIX ANALYST. and economically produoe a class of sugar whioh would be likely to compete with beet ; in fhis direction a good d d r e m h to be done by the establiihment of Usinerr or Uentrd Faat;ories working with fh~bdlaes nmhhery, and by the mwbapproved methods, in order to obtain the very considerable loss of cane sugar whidh now Wces place by imperfect espression of the juioe and the ttnnecesearyformation of Iarge gum- tifies of molasses. It is true rioh molasses produoe a high &ss rum, but a method for the production of rum of e q d quaIity would be certain to be devised were the qumtiQ andqudity of the molasses decreased by more careful attention to the prooeee of estraoting and manufactnring the sugar.the the not ton and The closing of the LESvenham F&ory in 1875 was generally supposed to be due to fact that the farmem did not care to grow the roots, and we presume reason for thie wae that the prim which they were paid was sufficiently remunerative; the present company propose to pay 2Oa. per delivered, or 22s.if the beets have been six weeks or more in pit or damp, they also state that they have made satisfactory arrangements with the r d - way company, and further that by working by recently invented methods the s u w w i l l be extracted more easily and emnomicdly, in other words, this company ignore the reawn given for the previous failure, which, 190 far as we am see, exists to the same extent now, and rely for their aumm on the fact; that they have made more satidactmy amangements for cwrriage, and that tlhey am going to work by a remay invented process. The fad is that the Layenham works would be in operation bday had it not been for the impossibility of obtaining the raw material; the process was all right, and had it not been so, we feel m e that 34Xr.Duncsnwouldspeedily have arranged a method for reoovering the sugar.Beside4 newly invonted proowses are not dwap the most reliable, and frequentiy the benefib to be obtained from them are not derived until after modifications have been introducd e~taihg muoh delay and expensive work. So far as we oan see there is no more ohance of the present ventme being succe~sfd than the preceding one, and we are afraid thatthe newly invented process a d oheap miage will not compensate for the shortness of supply of tihe mw materia;l, To give plome idea of the actreage necessttry for a fwbry producing 120 tons of sugar per week ; 12,000 awes would have to be under cultivation, of which 4,000 would be cropped each year, this is taking the average mystallimbb agar in the beeta at 8 per cent. In order to mtmufa&e the 950,000 tons of beet sugar, vhioh the Ew8 states to have been mnsumed in the United Kingdom during last year, about 15,000,000 tons of beet roots would be required. l?or the faotory turning out 120 tons per week, 325 tons of beets would have to be delivered each h y ; there would be no diiiiodty in arranging machinery to work up an indefinite amount of mtq but the question remaina :- (( Can this quantity be delivered uninterruptedly throughout t;he smon 3 ”