The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-03

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~ ARMER JOHN beet field over with
4 eye, noted with what intelligence the
~ beets their shiny tops if assuring him
r. they growing big and fat and sweet Then
G$2S he glanced the where the beet
factory streakng the sky with curly black smoke
and wondered crop would pay threshing
himself, mother, number
little things for Sam sary But this little
patch only a tiny factory,
well knew All through the great northwest
other Johns looking their fields and garden
patches estimating their in the till
the busy winter campaign the factory open
grand flourish and raising of the flag. ~
&~re:':> A Proper Introduction.
Anyone introduced sweet
vegetables might be tempted
to turnips they yelowsh-
color Sugar the cultivation. From
beets those containing selected
permitted seed from this seed another
raised the continued till beets
grown containing large amount OF sugar In the process
the red color Of the lost. But frequently
bright hobs up, looking like overgrown radsh
. showing ancestry OF beets.
Carload after carload of beets taken to the
hungry factory standing
the tracks bushe basketfu is taken from each to
the tare waste in carload Before Farmer John
his factory supposed the
clearly ring left by the first leaves
Sometimes he careless off the top at angle
but impurities this top,
much waste and must be deducted from the price PAID 10
Farmer john From each bushe of sample beets fifty pounds
properly topped and put into washing machine to be
washed the clean weight may be z..
Meanwhile the carloads beets dumped into the long,
low beet Sheds whose floors slope down canal
ume running lengthwse through the middle Boards
first placed the ume the beets dumped
them then when they to be the boards pulled
ouand the tumble into the canal They
light enough float the them into the
factory at the time washing them they roll and
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y - Ride in a Ferris Wheel =
They within the house they
by huge Ferris wheel with
ride the highest point the revolution they
unceremoniousy sent sprawng through chute into the
beetwasher to be 1aundred The washer rectangular
tub always half filled with water. Through the
revolving with attached at angle in such
that while the bee being churned clean
progressive movement toward the opposite end >
Here four paddles give them into
other The churning paddles bobbng
gest whimsical likeness the spanking machines used
keeping water in motion: ~z1: r
startled beets must surely swim. slide chute
to the elevator flight aloft and the bees land
permits 700 pounds to through it at tme it is we'll
nigh impossible to admit the exact number of pounds
the overweight is registered automatically
little panel in wall Of the machine
Mad swoop the sicer.
Suddenly side of the weigher with
crash and machinery almost jump
his boots, the whole 700 swoop wide
avalanche land in the "scer.'
round tank with knives at the bottom which revove at
rife speed strips
onefourth of inch thick The sliced beets
called .cossettes meaning shreds The knives are really
sharp ridges three-sixteenhs height
plates. kept in order the
be and the cells which hold the Juices of the
beet may be crushed the beets ground
crushed impurities of the beet-hose
the production of be mixed with
the juice purifying Juice
than the value of the left in the cossettes
Three Well Defined Processes.
three welldefned processes in the manufac
though each includes lesser
must must
be purified, finally the sugar itself produced.
mass
sliding down the chute does not look unlike
a
in the floor called diffusion cells each holds
gallons and 5000 pounds Of cossettes When
right quantity cossettes been
dinused" through the shreds and they left
fora chute being placed at mouth
is filled in like During the hour tn
water changed six minutes passing
cell to another
extracting by purely natural
the up than cent Of remains d