Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1891 — PRODUCTION OF SUGAR. [ARTICLE]

PRODUCTION OF SUGAR.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has prepared a statement of the probable production of sugar during the current fiscal year, of which the following are a summary: Number of producers of sugar from cane, 730; from beets, 7; from sorghum, 3; from maple sap, 3,932; total, 4,672. Estimated the amount of sugar which will be produced from cane, 500,000,000 pounds; beet sugar, 29,210,000 pounds; sorghum surgar, 2,500,000 pounds; maple sugar, 8,000,000; total, 539,710,000 pounds. Estimate of the amount of bounty to be paid: Oucane sugar, $10,350,003; on beet sugar, $594,000; on sorghum sugar, $50,0 0 on maple sugar, «IQJKQ;JutaI T 4U T I34,3OO,---The production of sugar from beets so far as the issue of licenses is concerned, is confined to California, Nebraska, Utah and Virginia. There are three producers in California with an estimated production from six thonsand acres of sixteen million pounds, one-half of which is attributed to the Western Beet Sugar Company, of SSn Francisco, whose factory is located at Watsonville, Santa Cruz county. -The Virginia production Is estimated at ten thousand pounds. The estimated production of sugar from sorghum cane is dived between Kansas, with a production from 4,034 acres of 2,51)0,000 pounds, and Missouri with twenty-sx acres, producing 10,000 pounds.