Show MANUJF ACTUEE OF STJGAS CLAIM THAT A NEW ERA HAS BEEN INAUGURATED The Work of Extracting flaw Sugar From the Beet Juice Accomplished Accom-plished in Half an Hour The test of the new apparatus for the abstraction of the raw sugar from the beet juice made at Grand Island last Friday was even more successful than announced in this paper says the Omaha World Herald The clarified beet juice < as it entered the apparatus had a density of 86 brix and in thirty minutes was reduced to massecuite halving a density of 915 brix The density of the juice was a little below the average as used In the factory this year and the density of the product was several points higher than is required re-quired for successful handling Under the present system it would have taken nearly ten hQurs to accomplish what this new process accomplished In half an hour This statement will give the I reader some idea of the importance of the process In addition to this the test was made under numerous adverse conditions The weather was damp the machine had been put up hastily and the blowing blow-Ing apparatus had to be attached to the evaporator at the wrong end owing to the construction of the local machinery ma-chinery H H Nicholson chemist at the state university and E A Claus of the sugar beet factory at Cheno Cal were the referees and in addition to these gentlemen and Messrs McDougal Sym ington and ONeill who went from this I city the experiments were witnessed by Clarence E Leonard of New York City secretary of the Western Elevator ccmpany R S Bulda chemist at the Grand Island factory and HenryS Ferar manager of that factory all of whom were surprised and pleased at the demonstrations made B B Schneider of Fremont who was in the city yesterday says he has known of the machine but had not yet learned of the result of the test He admitted that if the experiments were as reported they were simply wonderful wonder-ful and meant much to Nebraska The result will be be says that there will be massecuite factories in all the larger communities in the state Localities Lo-calities which could not think of putting put-ting in a factory costing from a quarter quar-ter to a half of a million dollars can now build under this new process at a vastly smaller cost The farmers can take stock in the new companies and not only receive a good market price for their beets but receive a share of the profits of the manufacturing busi ness Again in the selling of their beets they will be dealing with men they know and in wlhom they have confi dence and when another year overtakes over-takes them like the past they will be better enabled to understand the condition than they are now when they must ship their product to another point The managers of the masse Quite factories will then make their contracts with the central refineries and there will be more satisfaction and harmony on all sides In other words if the new process is proven to be practical prac-tical which now seems altogether pro bable the beet sugar industry in Ne braska will be just in Its infancy I Another point of great advantage is that the refineries necessary to care for the raw product will be largely built by outside capital and will furnish fur-nish another field for investment This massecuite can be stored with safety enabling a refinery to run the year round if It has sufficient product which cannot be done now as the manufac turing season is limited to about a hun dred days under the present plan ow lug i to the perishable nature of the beet crOD |