. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . by bounties, or tax exemption, or factory was built at Hartford, Maryland, in 1879, but it wasafterward abandoned, and the only going concerns engaged inthe manufacture of beet sugar east of the Alleghanies duringrecent years were the small plants in New York at Rome andLyons. Dismantled in 1905 and 1911, respectively, part of themachinery of the former was moved to Visalia, California, andthe latter plant in its entirety to Anaheim, California. All of these failures were traceable to the lack of practicalknowl
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . by bounties, or tax exemption, or factory was built at Hartford, Maryland, in 1879, but it wasafterward abandoned, and the only going concerns engaged inthe manufacture of beet sugar east of the Alleghanies duringrecent years were the small plants in New York at Rome andLyons. Dismantled in 1905 and 1911, respectively, part of themachinery of the former was moved to Visalia, California, andthe latter plant in its entirety to Anaheim, California. All of these failures were traceable to the lack of practicalknowledge of beet culture and the making of sugar from beet-roots. Then, too, the agricultural lands at first selected wereunsuited to the purpose and the seed used up to the year 1890gave beets of a low sugar content, from 6 per cent to 8 per development of the Western states gave the beet-sugar in-dustry a permanent place in California, and a little later inUtah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The California Beet Sugar Manufacturing company was or- 1
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