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Show SUGAR PLANT CLOSES DOWN END OF THE PROCESS OF TREATING TREAT-ING MOLASSES. Syrup Now Remaining Will Be Sold , to Alfalfa Meal Factories In j Kansas and Nebraska. The Ogden sugar beet factory has completed its osmose run for the year and the plant will now be put in readiness read-iness for the next beet campaign. More than 5,000.000 pounds of molasses has been worked over into brown sugar by this process known as osmosing. the product of which is about 600,000 pounds of brown sugar and about 2,-200,000 2,-200,000 pounds of molasses. The brown sugar will bo refined into in-to white sugar during the next beet campaign. The molasses will be disposed dis-posed of to eastern manufactures of alfalfa meal and In fact ha already been contracted for, so great is the demand for this product of the beet plants. The utilization of this refuse molasses for feed purposes has developed de-veloped Into an industry which is astonishingly advanced, considering the-comparatively short time since the idea of mixing it with ground alfalfa was conceived. Beet pulp has been a recognized feed since the introduction of beet sugar manufacturing, although it contains con-tains one-half of one per cent sugar. On the other hand, the refuse molasses mo-lasses contains about 50 per cent sugar. su-gar. The pulp sells for 50 cents a ton. which price, if compared with molasses on tho basis of sugar contents con-tents would make the latter worth about $25 a ton. As the lime is too short before the next campaign, the double-osmosing of molasses, as Is sometimes done, will not be attempted at the local plant this season, and this fact, together to-gether with the constant demand for the molasses by eastern alfalfa meal manufacturers, has induced the company com-pany to dispose of its entire supply of niulasses. |