The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-02-21
BEET SUGAR REFINING
How the Sugar Bees Share with Sugar Cane in Producing
Sweets for the United States
Master Carbone, in The Leader

Master Caon, in 7he Leader
There very sugar. sugar
OF
and beets the Importance Many people have the
idea that the supply this entirely manufactured
from This bees supply
supplies The worlds crop
amounted 900 and 900 of
From this be taken value
the world
The ideal weighs two pounds and the yield
about The Secretary Agriculture trying
enlist the farmers closer
this yield 20 After the powed
ground they topped ship
ped to the sugar refinery.
Beets arriving the factory dumped M once)
into ume filled with water pumped
end and flowing the
factory This only lessons the labor of handling but the
beets
After being enormous washer they
careful washing and then weighed They then
passed scers where they long, thin slices which look
something like These through long
slender shue and packed cylindrical
three six EACH There usually twelve these vessels
straight line and they all by They called
battery. Warm these Slices and the
from vessel the other After passing through
the battery the has become rich which
from twelve fifteen then drawn off and called
juice The slices the battery then dumped and
feed livestock.
This juice then enormous called
bonizaton tanks with lime
This lime throws impurities sers the juice
Carbonc acid then forced through
verts the lime into carbonate of lime chalk
From the carbonizaion tanks the pumped
through filter consisting of iron with
that the through the cloth liquid leaving
lime and impurities pecpiaed by it, the form of cake of
phosphate potash. This
fertilizer.
juice pumped evaporators These are large
aight vessels furnished with heating tubes which
inside There square
feet each vessel partial maintained in the
which the juice boil low thus pre-
venting discooon and the destruction the which would
about by high The juice pumped
fifteen
fifty per sugar This called thick juice.
After careful liberation pumped
Here the juice again boiled with live and the
crysazes More juice constantly added and the mix
is least 80
This of crystals and is let of the
machine called MIXER beneath which suspended
machines suspended peror-
ated with holes and lined with fine They made
volv the of 1000 This forces the syrup
through the and leaves the white crystals of thick
the surface. The then washed with spray
of pure water and is then ready to be dried
The that thrown off from the crystals the centrfu
gal machines taken back the evapoaed in the
previously described from the pan
cysazers carry
These from thousand thousand
of the cytaed which kept motion by
slowly revolving paddles From these cysazers
machines where the crystals separated
before described The then remaining makes
lasses
damp white crystals centrifugal
conveyed sugar ernuator dryer large
revolving drums with paddles inside These paddles keep
picking and dropping showers the
constantly drawn through takes the
moisture of the sugar.
the sugar has been thoroughly dried drops through
end of which the double
sugar directly sack the flow being automatically
pounds endless
Sewing machine which automatically stitches
sugar ready distribution all the
sugar aho
refinery human hand touches
they dumped into the ume until they
pear under form of
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handled airpane should than the
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