The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-06-29
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"A e,rantic Corn sugar Factory.

sl.5O0OO0. The sugar house Is 16O feet
square, with eleven stories and basement, or
40 feet high. IL Is to be of WOOD and brick,
containing 4,0O0,0 900 bricks 1t will be sup
ported BY ninety piers OF masonry; resting
on piles, each pier carrying about 400 tons.
There will be required AZ, 900 forty-foot piles,
or 31S miles of piling.
Adjoining the sugar house is a building
for corn. go by 16O feet, and three stories
high. 1t contains five large steam engines,
two pumping engines, one flowing engine,
and several small steam pumps. The pumps
nave a capacity of 100000 O gallons per day.
The steam engines will be equal to 2,OOO
horse power, and the blowing engine blower
furnishes a blast for 1000 horse power
boilers.
Next to the corr house is the filter house,
100 by 100 feet, and eleven stories high. This
building is a firep-oof one, built OF brick,
iron columns, wrought iron floor beams,
with brick arch floors. Its twenty-four piers
carry 500 tons each, or 12,OOo tons. There
are $500 forty-foot piles driven fifty feet be-
low the surface.
The next building is a corn house, sixty
feet square and three stories high, with ma
chinery in il to empty the cars automatic
ally.
The next Is a boiler house, rs by 100 feet
in size, three stories and basement, with a
coal bin suspended above the boilers to feed
AUTOMATICALLY Il NOois 1AS
have a capacity of 1000 horse power. There
are twenty of these known as the Babcock q
Wilcox section boilers.
The chimney for the house is 240 feet
high. with q twelve foot inside fue. The
base is forty feet square.
Between the boiler-house and the Chin
new is an ''economizer," that the waste gases
the chimney. Ry this means the heat is
utilized by pumping the feed waters of the
boiler through this economlzer.
The works will with IL, 0e0
bushels of corn per day, which will soon
increase TO 25, 900 per day. The corn can be
received by car or vessel, and the goods
likewise shippsd.
The Company will manufacture all kinds
of starch for laundry and culinary purposes,
strip and grape sugar.
Paris Green and the Potato Beetle.
Paris green has become as much a part of
the stock of necesSaries on a farm as any
other useful article. Since the advent in
the East of the potato bug, as it is ommon-
ly called, every one who grows potatoes
must handle paris green. There are two
general methods of application-the mix
ing of the poison by some with flour, and
by others with plaster. Either of the mix
lures will answer, but plaster is preferable.
1t is not the purpose here to give any de-
LdllS as 10 Tie dDpllCdllOU Vi paris Ictu, Dut
rather to call attention to a fact thai is over
looked regarding the benefit the potato-bug
has conferred on farmers. 1t is true the bugs
keep us busy and annoy us very much; but,
in order to save our crops, we must apply
paris green, and this application demands
plaster. Now. plaster itself is one of the best
assistants to the growth of potatoes that is
known, as it contains pure lime, which is
sOluable tOa certain extent. 1t is a compound
of sulphuric acid and lime, and as lime is
one of the chief ingredients in the compost
ton that makes up the growth of potatoes
the application of paris green is also a
process of manuring. 1t is generally &C
knowledged that potatoes are easier pro-
duced now than formerly, and a great
many of our farmers have not considered
the cause, which lies in the fact that while
farmers are often enterprising in some mat
tiers, a large majority of them are slow at
practicing those things which are suggested
to them by the farm journals. In vain has
plaster been recommended as a very good
fertilizer for potatoes, and dilatory have
been the efforts of farmers in experimenting
with its use until at last, as a dilutant to
paris green, it has been applied to the potato
crop with excellent results, which, however.
was involuntary, as the plaster was applied
not for beneficial purposes, but TO save us
from the enemy.
The small proportion of paris green used
| Is harmless, Us IL Is distributed over large
surfaces, but in order to 90 over a large field
a considerable amount of plaster must be
used, and il does not require a very large
amount of plaster to show beneficial results
Ordinary lime is applied in quantities rang
ing from ten to forty bushels to theacre, and
it is even then slow in its action on some
soils, but a quantity of plaster as small as
one bushel to the acre at once makes known
its presence by the beautiful color imarted
to the growing plant. 1t absorbs and retains
more or less moisture, and adds food in a
soluable, ready condition for assimilation
by the action of the roots.
The yield of potatoes will vary on any
field according to the amount of Slaster
used, and the very best of our ordinary fer
tiliZers is a mixture of n part plaster to
two of wood ashes. The beetle must be de-
stroyed or the crop will be a failure, and
flour Is too expensive for a large crop. fhe
e~heapness of plaster gives it the preference.
Even flour is a fertilizer, but plaster is a
special part of a formula for potato fertil-
izers. While we are now regarding the
beetle as a terrible pest and scourge, we
should also credit him with the good Weld
of potatoes resulting from the free use of
plaster, and while nature may seemingly err
in some of her dispensations, we are not able
to deny that even that which we consider a
curse is compelling us to adopt that which
We might otherwise reject. j.
Farm and Workshop Notes.
Moderately broad wheels are preferable To
narrow tires for use on heavy wagons.
The practice of sending live fowls to pur.
chasers or to market by express has grown
to a very great extent.
1t is estimated that the total production
OF wool in the United States for the year
1880 was 100000, 900 pounds, an increase OF
32,O0O,OOO over the clip of 1878.
Recent shipments Of honey from Califor-
MIA to Great Britain have been received with
great favor. An English order recently re-
ceived calls for $1,000 pound cans.
The three important acquisitions in max
ing a cranberry plantation are a peat bog, or
swamp, adjacent sand or gravel banks, and
capacity for fiowage at the convenience of
the owner.
To care for the comfort and health OF
horses should be the first thing to be consid-
cred when building or repairing a horse
stable. Pure air and sufficient light should
be given in all stables when possible.
One of the reasons why we earth up pota-
toes Is TO cover those tubers which grow near
the surface. Some kinds throw out the
tubers much lower han others. Tubers ex.
posed to the weather are spoiled for all pur-
poses of cooking, although as seed they are
not at all injured.
Ii is reported that the largest hog in the
country is a Poland China, four wears old
/ this Sprinp lately ON axhfhtt;o, - ,-o4.-