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Show jjk How Sugar la Made, The following, which is taken from the Louieana Planter, is a short, w oil written dlscriptlon ot how cugar Is made at tho Lehi factory : Tho process of manufacturing sugar from beets, at Lehi, Utah, isns follows: Tho beets are carried Into the building by a stream of tepid water running in a sluice box. This water delivers the beets to a washer where an agitator and conveyor con-veyor combined washes them and movco them along to an elevator. The elevator delivers them to a sheer. Thesliccrl cuts tho beets into long Hhrcds that arc ' run down an cnclineto the diffusion ' battery. This battsry is composed of twelve upright iron tanks. A general impression is that the Juice of the beets Ii squeezed out of tho sliced pieces. This is incorrect. Tho swCet juice Is taken from the pieces by circulation of water through tho twelve tanks under pressure. The same water passes through the twelve tanks. Tho tanks are filled with Heed beets In lotatlou. When the juice is extracted in the manner explalnedi the remaining pulp, devoid of any taste.' Is emptiod from tho bottom of the tank and carried out of the mill by a chain belt, acd emptied Into care, to be taken I to some point to feed to hogs er cattle. The water tilled with the sugar matter of the beet is then taken to a tank and measured and from there it is transit trans-it rred to the corbonatlon tanks. The juice In th water Is mixed with cream of lime In certain proportions. To tills mixture is added carbonic gas, taken from the top of a tall lime kiln. The gas unites with the cream of lime and restores it to lime rock that carries with it tho impurities. The cntiro solution Is then by force of n pump passed through the first filtering press, composed com-posed of screens and cotton duck, which catches tho lime rock In form of n powder and tho clear juice is parsed back to second tiuie to the- second series of rarbonatlon tanks, passing through the same process ns before, to ngnln be passed through a second tillering tiller-ing press. The juice is then returned to a third Buries of cnrbonations tanks nnd submitted to thu fumeii of sulphur; then through a third filtering press. the clnrttlcd juice then passes through the four effects, which Is slnipl a boiling process In which the julcols four different times boiled down; the i heat is furnished by escaping Btenm. I Passing from ouu pan to another it is submitted to tho steam four times creating creat-ing four effects. Tho reduced julco is then taken to tho vacuum pan, where it 'a further reduced, nnd an expert takes it from tills vacuum pan, when it is reduced re-duced to tho proper point of granulation. granu-lation. From the vacuum pan it passes to the centrifugals ; that by centrifugal forco "xtracta tho motsturo of water, linking white suga'. Hero the eugnr is washed thoroughly, then passed through n drying process by being pnssed through irti apparatus that tins the general nppenrnnce of n batting cloth in n flouting mill, inside of which Is circulated hot air. After this It 1st sucked nnd ready for market It requires eight hundred bailor hnrso lower, niiincroiiH pumps nnd nlGO horsepower horse-power Corliss mgino in tint steam plant, etc. Tho mill uses nbont 000,000 g.llhme of water daily. Tho limo kiln receives! 18 tons of rock daily, put n at the top, j nnd tho limo comes out nt the bottom j nnd slacked through throe different lime lioxos, tho last containing nn agitator-From agitator-From this it is pumped Into n tank over t lip cnrbonallmi tanks to be mixed ullli tho jutoe ihon in tho cm l.onlo gu . , Tho eujnr plant runs every hour nf!4r It tlnrts ami requiris lllicmployeoit ij twcntv.four honrrt. Fort.vfho tons o coal and tn j tons of coko nil. used daily fjTlie c icmtiin Hunt II f vent ot the 8u0"ir In t . u b l t ,1.1,. iu suspended In the syrups, thrown off by the centrifugals. This Is run into large tanks andthu sugar Is allowed time to settle at the botton . Tbo refiiso syrups are then pumped out nnd maybe used for making vinegar or alcohol. The crude syrup is run through the mill and r'tlncd. During the process of making sugar tho the chemist nnd his associates are continually at different times making tests, to keen the chanci; from beets to sugar up to'the standanl requirements. Any mistakes causing a smalt loes, witll the hugh mass in hand, is a desideratum, henen tlit. chemist is the eye and tars of tho factory In operation. A ger.ernl superintendent looks aftv all details of tho transfnrmatlon from beginning to end. The chcmW and the sniierlntcnd-ent sniierlntcnd-ent are the conditions upon which the plant succeeds or falls, If the beets are up to the minimum standards. |