| Show MOLASSES FROM BEETS provo feb 11 11 A large number of farmers responded to tile the invitation of 0 georgo Ba havercamp to attend a anicet acet ing yesterday for the purpose of considering si ng the question of beets for the manufacture of molasses atte r the matter had been yan norland rand ne samples of the 1110 mol arjes ex histed hib ted quite a number of the fart farmers partners ners signified ed their willin willingness kness to raise oise beets ford for the manufacture of molasses and when some further details alper fectea acted another meeting will bo be band and contracts entered into and t cie seems e ms to be no doubt tho the abw new ina industry P stry will be started this fall mr jr havercamp has secured the support of the utah sugar coia company pany to the extent that the company will furnish sped for tho the molasses project which is an important ques question lion in the beginning pf af the industry A rather remarkable thing about the success achieved is that it has been mainly through the labors of a man who has no knowledge of and many men with a good theoretical and working knowledge of tho the science have failed the man who hits has made a success is freeman tanner formerly of payson he has been worl working drig on the project it Is stated for years and has made con sid erable headway enough to laduce induce mr havercamp to take hold of the undertaking der taking and obtain some scientific assistance for mr tanner and the result has been the production of a fine quality of molasses as has previously beeri been announced in the herald application has been made for a patent on the process pr ocels I 1 which will without doubt be granted works work s will be erected thi s season for manufacturing turi jig and there seems to be no chance for failure it Is also most probable that the cost of manufacture will be greatly reduced from tile the calculations cu lations made so far for the reason that the machinery mr tanner has been working with has been very crude and he has not been able to extract anything near the full quantity of sugar from the beets handled and the cost has been much greater than it would be with improti improved ed machinery chinery and in handling largo quantities jua of beets |
