Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1902-01-24
|D Successful Cpe[0IOl.
Beet Sugar Pulp Being Dried and
Shipped to Germany.
The Alma Sugar Factory the First in
the United States 10 Successfully
Care for this By-PrOduct.
LOOKS LIKE FIFTY CENT TEA.


factory is now in successful operation,
although not being run up to its full
capacity, and the Alma Sugar Co. holds
the distinction of being the first
beet sugar factory in the United
States to adopt this method of disposing
of the waste pulp and at the same time
utilizing this by product 20 add to the
profits of the factory. The Bay City
Sugar Co. last year built pulp drying
plant at a great expense In order to make
pulp merchantable, but the experiment
was complete failure. The method
used was similar to that in operation to
care for the waste products of distIlleries
and it was found that it would not work
in drying sugar beet bulp.
In Germany there are over one hund-
red and twenty Of these driers in sue
cessful operation and it is impossible for
them 10 furnish enough of the dried
pulp to the Wholesale dealers at price
of S24 per ton, so great a demand is
there for the article.
The pulp drier at the Alma sugar fac
tory was built for the firm of Buttner *
Meyer, the patentees, of Uerdingen,
Germany, by the American Construc
tion & supply Co. of New York, under
the supervision f. L. Brysselbout. DR..
Carl Meyer, the inventor and a member
Of the firm which holds the patent has
been here during the past two weeks
watching the progress of the starting
and he states that the plant is put up
just as well as those built in Germany
where they have been i'll use for several
years.
representative of the RECORD visited
the plant one day this week and was
shown through the drier by Mr.. Bryssel
bout, who very courteously explained
the workings of the machinery
throughout. The method of drying the
pulp II similar TO that used IL evapora-
ting fruit, only on a great deal more ex-
teusive plan The pulp is taken direct
from the conveyor at the factory and
after entering the building is passed
through powerful spiral presses which
extract a large portion OF the water
Large spiral conveyors carry IT from this
point TO the drying kilns where il is
tossed through an intensely heated
space. forced draft carrying off the
evaporation. The dried product then is
turned out into PIT where iron bucket
carry it up and dump into bin. Be
low this b'n for sacking purposes a com.
mon bran packer is used which packs the
stuff into sacks of 10 pounds each ready
for the market. The dried pulp re-
sembles in color and appearance some
brands of Japan tea, has no perceptible
odor and is not unpleasant to the taste
That being manufactured at the Alma
drier at present Is being shipped to
Germany This plant has daily capacity
of about 80 900 pounds and is guaranteed
TO take care of all the pulp coming from
the sugar factory. Only one third of
the presses and drying kilns have thus
far been used but it is expected to run
TO the iull capacity 10 few days. A 20
horse power Bates Coriiss engine is re-.
quired TO furnish the power to run the
plant
In Germany the dried pulp is first
moistened a trife before feeding to live
stock The drying process does not
destroy any of the nutrmeut OF the
pulp, simply evaporating the water as is
done ia eyayomung fruit
The problem Of disposing of the waste
pulp from the sugar factories has been a
serious one, aud the Alma sugar Co. is
highly gratifed that 1t has been solved
for them.
Notice 10 Taxtayers.
| will be 20 L. " bater's grocery
store or Tuesdays and FUdays ot each
week until further notice for the Tur
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