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Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. [15 Dec, 1919. 



Maffra Sugar Factory Manufacturing Results. 



Maffra Factory Rainfall Records. 



OUTLINE OF MANUFACTURING PROCESS. 



The weighed beets are sampled, and a percentage determined and 

 deducted for dirt and improper topping. They are dumped from tip- 

 drays, or unloaded from trucks into V-shaped bins. Water flumes 

 underneath these bins convey the beets to a large beet-wheel, which lifts 

 them into a mechanical washer, where, by agitation and a large supply 

 of water, the adhering dirt is removed. The beets are then carried 

 over to a bucket elevator, which drops them into a beet-slicing machine, 

 where they are cut into fine grooved shreds or cossettes. These cossettes 

 are conveyed to a diffusion battery of fourteen cells, where, by the cir- 

 culation of hot water, the sugar is diffused from the slices in the form 

 of a sweet juice, and the exhausted cossettes remain as an ideal stock 

 food, termed beet pulp. 



Good average beets should test 15^ per cent, of sugar, at a purity of 

 85 per cent., and yield 12i per cent, of refined white sugar, the balance 

 remaining partly in the final molasses, while a percentage is lost in 

 process. 



