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L A 7 A | : “X\, % ; S\. / - : ) '/, oe v . '{ ‘J l N l\/ ! | \-/\v/ —_— \) u L l\\'\ =i \ L Lo\ SV L2y, /q/;/\/' 7p <Q \_’ :/ NS "\, \ @;:‘;V A/ o 2 N '/‘:\ Q Toin YEAR CHRISTIANSTED, V.II. U.S. A., MONDAY, 12rH JANUARY 1920. is to be the rendezvous of an internation- al mergantile maiket and exchange place or a clearing-nouse. Switzeriand manutactures very liitle sugar but is no- ted for its products that contain sugar and it is believed tha- this exhibition will give [Surope a distributing center for su- gar and its manufactured products as well a all othar food prodiczis raised on the continent.—lbid. The chemist specialists of the United States Denartmen: of Agriculture of the Buream of Chemistry are reporting the birth of a new syrup that has been chri:tened gs malt suzar syrup. The new child has come just at the psychological time when sugar is scarce and it comes into being to receive ine good will of for- mer devctees of the sugar queen. True, the syrup nas been snown ir emd-vo for some time but it awaited an economic condition to “e born into the channels of ¢ommercial usage. The colored servant re-ciiristened his cow with the significant words: ‘;United .S:ates’’ and, when asked whv h 2 had niade the change, he said that she thad gcne dry. Now this going dry has threaten~d to put a lot of beer machinery on the scrap heap, but it has been discove e¢d that malt syrup can be made from the same grains as beer and the very same machinery can be used to make the syrup, ard so we are living over again the old iruth of nature WhiC%l never wasies but always adapts everything even if it adopts nothing. Very littie change i 3 necessary in the breweri%:and up toa certain point the process I&the sam= for making malt su- gar as for making beer. DEvaporating pans have to be added, however, to the equipment. The malt sugar so the che- ‘mists say iooks verymuch like maple syrup and is a fine table syrupand a g.od food. It resembles hju:y and can be used for.everything caue sugar is used for. It isexcellent for ¢oking and bak- ing and in candy uses it is even supervior bacause it will not so readily erystallize. -—lbid. : / ; The Siberian Sugar Company is a newly organized c~rmapany with 3 capital of 10,000,00%)5 roubles. Prof. S. Y. Lebe- def of the Technical Institute of Tomsk, the center of a vast agricultural region, has for four years been working ,on the plap of a sugar industry and with the help of Prof. Nikolski, an agricultural ‘expert sugar beets have been grown, ex- perimental'y for three years. The new company has | ased 71.280-acres of land THE ST. CROIX AVIS i is printed and published doily (Sundays | and Holidays excepied) by G. Johansen | at the Avis Office.- | T'HRMS---50 cents monthly wn advance, ; 2 cents per single copy. 1 i et itAel ge ot ittt g | Lntered as second-class matter tMay | 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- dlen, St. Crotx, VoL ofthell. 5. A, un- Ader the Act of March 3. 1879. . | Contribution to this paper will be glad- | ly received when the same deals with mat- ters of genecral interest, and is accompa- nied with the author’s name, as a quar- antee of good faith. The editor cainot be responsible for the views of his correspon- _ dentsnor does he necessarily endorse them. SUGAR NOTES. Interesting news hails fron Paraguay, whnere a shrub called “‘caathe’’ is grow- ing wild and bears leaves sweet to the tnste when chewed. An interesting sug- gestion is inadz, that leaves be m'xed in suitable proporton with'‘yerbamate’” or “‘Paraguayant,”’ sc that the tea will . come 6 the teapot already sweetened. | ne shiub in question obtains a, height | of over two feet, and bears panicles of | white flowers. The leaves do not owe | their sweet iess to sugar, but to a sub- stance similar to that which sweetens ; jicorice. Years ago children boucht the | licorice root for a penny and it was from | this root that licorice sticks were made ! by the confcetioners.—Lodisiana Planter | Dec. 27th. | T ! Basle, Switzerland, has had a remark- | able rejuvenation during the world war. | l‘he.cit/ as every reader kn>ws lies in | the very center of Europe where the maia railway lines converge from London, Paris, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copentia- gen. Berlin, Rome, and other cities south east and west. It was the gateway ' through which the wounded from all che | belligerent nations were iransferred and | the miniature republic spent millioas of | its own money taking care of them. | Basl has also been a great commercial | center through which also the surround- { . ing countries have sent their produce and, the writer has scen carloads of sugar | coming from Germany as well as lltaly | ana Austria coming here for distribution. Recently the city held its anuual fair wnaich has beeome a fixed institution and plans are under way now to erect a two-miliion-doilar exhibition bal! which No. 9. near Pavlovski. The Siberiah govern- - ment is interested and has appropriated 200,000 " roubles and has established a bounty that will yield 1,000.000 roubles i a year. The factory it is believed will be completed by the fall of 1920 and Siberi- | an capitalists and the Petrograd Inter- ' national Bank of Commerce at Vladivos- | tok are financing the corporation. Ten | factories it is estimated will be needed ' to supply the sugar of the Siberians or a | total of 72,000 tons. From San Francisco | comes the report that efforts are being ' made in California to finance additional | factories and all this information is - among the most heartening that has ’l come out of the vast Siberian embpire.— I Ibd. .’ \ . Ladieg, Here's Your Denoriunity! | ESSONS in fancy work of many kinds, I_ can be had from C. 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