The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-28

coming from political experts in Wash
| ington.
The Garden City Sugar and Land
company uses oil for fuel. Occasionally
black smoke energies from the CHM
ney as a result of the consumption OF
this oil-no use for this smoke has been
found-as yet-by the Garden City peO-
pie. But they waste nothing else.
The steam from the boilers is first
used for motive power That's what
steam is generated for, you assume.
You are right-in a way. In this fac
tory. still further operation is found
for this steam. After it goes through
the engines 1t is sent to huge evapor-
ators for the evaporation of the juice
and the ultimate production Of the
sugar.
The original steam that turned over
the engines is sent first to one evap-
orator-air tight heating tubes or
'hues"-then to another, still to an
other and on to the fourth. By this
quadruple effect the efficiency of the
steam Is exhausted and it is condensed.
Condensed! Farewell to the use Of
the steam, you think.
Not yet!
The water used in the condensing
process flows down through pipes to
the bins outside the plant where the
ed down to the washers just inside the
building!
Can you conceive of another further
use OF the necessities of manufacture
ing institution?
AS 1t was stated before-only the
smoke from the factory chimney is
wasted. General Manager Baird may
find some use for that before this ar
ticle is printed.
Take the beet.
1t is planted. is highly cultivated and
I'll t.
on the fields for the workers.
In the first place the beet top is a
food.
-. It is placed ; in silos. it j: mixed with
After the fields have been cleaned
OF OF the tops and beets the hogs
a sier-.d turned inae loose es IL, in them-it is
per acre is gained through this process.
The hogs dig up the "leavings' after the
crop Is gathered: These tops bring a
fields where cattle will fatten upon their
richness. Just enough Of the crown of
the beet is left with the top to make
1t rich and luscious.
Another thing-the root of the beet-long
and spreading-is Of great benefit to the
SOIL When the beet Is dug only the main
root is extracted. The myriad Of fibrous
roots rot In the ground and form fer
tillzatfon In the lower strata of the soil.
Farmers near Garden City have found
that field. after two or three crops of
sugar beets, is greatly more productive
for other crops. Frequent tests have been
msde-the gain of the wheat or corn or
oats or alfalfa over the production in a
neighboring field tells the story. Farmers
In this part Of the state have doubled or
trebled their soil value without increasing
the acreage.
The liberal fertilization, the deeper plow-
Ing and the more consistent cultivation
also improve the land values to crops.
So we have the beta good percentage
OF sugar. an invaluable stock food in pulp
and top and a precious aid to the SOIL
all for the raiser. This added to the fact
that It is cash product
AS one expert has said: Farmers will
engage in sugar beet culture In preference
to the culture Of other root crops because
it Is cash-money crop, while other root
crops only can be fed to stock, and be-
cause after having been sold for the sugar
contained in the beets, farmers haul back