Technology Of Beet Sugar Manufacture PDF Download

Excerpt from Technology of Beet Sugar Manufacture: A Textbook Describing the Theory and Practice of the Process of Manufacture Facture of Beet Sugar After the fall Of Napoleon the European ports were again opened to the cheap sugar from the tropics, produced by slave labor, and the newly established beet sugar industry, because of the poor quality of the beets and the imperfect processes of manufacture, was unable to hold its own and only one factory survived the recon struction period of the Napoleonic wars. Up to this time no attempt had been made toward improving the quality Of the beet, and the beets then used contained only 5 to 6 per cent sugar and were Of low purity. In 1821 Felouze. Through researches in plant breeding, was able to increase the sugar content of the beets, and this, together with high sugar prices, caused the industry to make such rapid progress that by 1836 there were 436 sugar factories in Operation. From 1836 to 1870 the growth Of the industry in Europe and particularly in France, because Of the attitude Of legislation, was more or less spasmodic, but from 1870 to 1914, or the beginning Of the World War, con tinnel progress was made, and in 1914 the world's production Of beet sugar was tons as compared with a cane sugar pro duction Of tons. Below is given a table showing the production Of beet sugar by countries for the year 1914-15. 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.