[Rarebooks] FA: 1837 American Sugar Beet Treatise

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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  "Notice on the Beet Sugar: Containing 1st. A Description of the Culture 
and preservation of the plant. 2d. An explanation of the process of 
extracting its sugar. Preceded by a few remarks on the origin and present 
state of the Indigenous Sugar Manufactories of France. Translated from the 
works of Dubrunfaut, De Domballe, and others".

by Edward Church. Published in Northampton by J.H. Butler: 1837.

An interesting document of the attempt to begin the first beet-sugar 
factory in America. Both Frederick William III and Napoleon had attempted 
to introduce the manufacture of beet sugar to France, which is where Church 
had first attempted to grow sugar beets before being thwarted by the 
Revolution of 1830. He moved to Northampton, Massachusetts and enlisted the 
aid of friends, investors and the French vice-consul in Boston in another 
sugar beet venture. They distributed beet seed to farmers and apparently 
completed a factory for refining the sugar, the first in America, but the 
project had failed by 1841.

In this treatise Church describes some of his own labors and then gives a 
complete description of how the beets are to be grown, cared for, harvested 
and refined into sugar. He also makes a plea for a government subsidy, 
archly noting that an American beet sugar industry would be at least as 
valuable as an American silkworm industry, a project the government had 
been supporting financially. He was a man ahead of his time -the American 
beet sugar industry would not "crystallize" as a profitable venture until 
the 1870s.

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