The Technology Of Sugar

Author : John Geddes M'Intosh
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ISBN 13 : 9781332203369
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Technology of Sugar (Classic Reprint) written by John Geddes M'Intosh and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Technology of Sugar A Year ago (Mid July, 1914) the French sugar works and distillery chemists held their annual congress at Arras. There was a monument there to the founder of the great beet-sugar industry of France. The congressionists reverently laid a wreath on this monument to the man who, as far back as 1825, annually manufactured in Arras alone 140 tons of beet sugar, besides another forty tons at Genlis, and who in 1838, when beet sugar was first taxed, farmed 5,685 acres, consisting of seven farms in the Pas de Calais, two farms in the Aisne, two in the Somme, and two in the Oise, managing at the same time besides these thirteen farms, seven beet-sugar factories as well as his Arras sugar refinery. (Very possibly this monument, like the Cathedral of Arras itself, is now in ruins.) The moral the author would draw is this, viz. that the beet-sugar industry is not to be established in Britain by irresponsible pamphleteers and professional company promoters, some of whom have disseminated broadcast statements which they cannot substantiate. Great Britain still awaits its beet-sugar pioneer - its Monsieur Crcspel Delisse - who will establish the industry by the sweat of his brow and by his own personal sacrifices. Until that man appears on the scene the author prefers to remain silent as to the present attempts. He does not forget the fact that prior to 1870 thirteen English distilleries were working on beets and all came to grief. As to the cane-sugar industry, it is impossible for planters to supervise their estates efficiently so long as they remain ignorant of the rudiments of agricultural chemistry. It is most deplorable to find, as mentioned in a footnote in the text, that some of the managing directors of several combined plantations cannot differentiate, as regards rum, between degrees overproof and degrees of percentage strength (Gay Lussac), and yet they wonder how it is they do not get the proper yield of alcohol from their molasses. Industrial alcohol from molasses should be a fruitful source of income in the future as well as the recovery of potash salts from the spent wash. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.