| Show SUGAR MAKING AT LEHI the announcement comes that many J f the farmers of utah county contemplate doubling their acreage of beets next season and that a considerable number who have not eng engaged aired in acet neet culture heretofore have bave joined in the procession lor for the coming year f abe he factory jw is proving a great thing or utah generally in keeping at home a large num mum of money and reducing tit no price of sugar to a min minimum icum and is especially beneficial to utah county in starting out in that section the commercial lifeblood life blood in view of the eed increase of beet production in 1894 it may be well to note a lew few items additional to enone already pu blihA regarding the lacto rya s work the present season the picture at the mill is a most moat interesting iuie resting no railway trains and anci an almost coustaut constant stream ot of wagons tire are still ori bringing nging sugar boots beets to the factory over one hundres railway oars oara stand unloaded loaded on the grounds sheds shade are crowned crow jed and workmen aro ard piling beets ut of doors and preparing to cover them ibea the beet yard at the factory consists ot of five steeds feet long by 30 afeei wine in IB which are beets 10 feet feel deep beets to cover one ot of our city ten leu acre blocks all over to co a depth of rive live feet the arrangement ot 01 the is ia very convenient conven tent the opening on top the beets pass over it a ecret n which will not admit any but cue smallest particles lu the bottom it t the sheds the floor on either side blue lants to the center where a stream of water flows rapidly to the factory lao tory there are lour four men employed shovel lug aug beets beeta into the stream which conveys vt ye them to tile the washing machines of tue lie factory As they hey pass under the wall they are taken up by a large water which drops crops them lu in a shute ud nd conveys them to tile the rough eliere the stirring elir machine beeps eps the beets in constant motion until they are washed cleao clean toey ato aie next conveyed in a traveling raveli ug shute to 10 the cutter cutler where they are out oui into small mall strips limps near the size and shape ot of a load lead pencil from were there they pass page down into the press where all the juice its is at separated from the pulp which in IM conveyed to horse cars care and dumped in the pulp sheds the rhe pulp sheds are feet long 24 icet wide and its 10 feet deep these ah ds are dugout Is fashion anion the shed root delag ou on the burbace of the ground highl thousand tons already have kieen and it is expected that will ide be dumped this rei us use is valuable fur for cattle lead feed A already 1 there are being fed at la tho factory 50 head and there are expectations ot oi fattening a great many maire more anere is enough pulp laid away in suit salt to atten head ot of cattle it la is sold at rom to 1 per ton and a great many farmers arts are using it 11 ery near by to Is feeding several tons a my the beet juice passes through several cleansing processes a and u cl is finally to syrup ly by boiling when sufficiently reduced it is drawn into the centric agals or st rainerd these theae machines appear in similar lorm form to the wringers wr ingers of a laundry orthe separator of a creamery and revolve at air a araie rate of 1699 1509 revolutions a minute they hold from two to tour four hundred pounds the out side aide is ia porous and by the rapid move most the syrup la in thrown through leaving the grama grain clinging to the inside of the vessel while in maion m tion the material Is ia blued and steamed until when itis it la beauy to be removed it la white as snow being loosened it talis alls to the center and its is con conveyed keyed to the drying drum after it leaves this the granulated sugar augar falls down two and is ia socked backed ready for market each bach back use on it in audition addition to the companas comp anys la mark the number of each sack in the order in which it is ig filled yesterday friday noon saw the sack marked casting of the flueso 1 sugar dugar in the wonlu au an aver avenge ge of sag sacks jacks a since the be factory started its run this year there are hands handa employed tor for the days 9 run and twelve experts the j ear round the factory is now receiving about fifty oars cars of beets beeta each day as aa well aa 88 a co supply by wagon there had been 2500 tor tons unloaded up to last evening and tons worked up it takes 55 cars of coal a day tu to keep the twenty furnaces not the freight expense alone al me on coal and beets is not less jess than 1200 a day the farmer receives 5 a too ton for the beets delivered deliver eu at the factory tac tory anil and by me time they are stowed away cletie cost the com company tit at least atoo alon Bee beets tsiu in order to be worked up should go it 11 per cent augar with 80 per cent purley but some come run so far below this ibis that toey have to ue le rejected reject eJ the average taken in have from nine to eleven per cent of aucar anu anil seventy eight dutily out of tons lona received there nave been 2500 tons or f aiom i om one to four cars a ilay day condemned at a heavy loss lose to the company the contracts n quire require the company to 10 pay 5 a ton and when wets beets are tested and rejected because there is no sugar the firmer fauja them chem back home he has received ilia his 5 a ton but only returns 62 2 of it the company losing me rest beets raised on the comps farm arm run 8 per cout cent better than those abuse grown in other places this is the result of more skilful culture the utah sugar company is 18 paying fur me loci education ducati or or the farmers in beet raising around lehi L ehi the people raise an average of 15 tons to the acre these are of a good quality farmers raising sugar beets are required to open a cor with the management of the factory to obtain the beneal of their experience and avoid raising unprofitable stock it is estimated that there is pounds of refined sugar to one ton ot of beets lebs than seven per cent |
