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working 200,000 pounds of beets in 24 hours, U 

 10,000 pounds or 5 per cent, and that of coke for 

 charging and for the two furnaces is 200 pounds. 

 Of course the coke may be wholly or partly replaced 

 by wood, if for economical reasons it maybe deemed 

 necessary. 



I will add, so as not to have to return to this sub- 

 ject, a few words on the preparation of the lime for 

 purifying. 



4. PREPARATION OF THK MILK OF MMK FOR PURIFYING. 



This lime is first carefully slacked in a basin. 



and the thick milk is passed through a sieve of wire 

 cloth which retains the pieces of uncooked stone or 

 coals that might be in it, then the milk is put into 

 another basin to such a thickness as that it may mark 

 20 degrees on the Beaume areometer. In this state it 

 is ready for use. Before using it, it must be well sha- 

 ken so as to put all the lime which has a tendency to 

 precipitate rapidly, in suspension. 



The milk of lime contains one ounce of quick 

 lime per gallon and decree Beaume, so that our pre- 

 pared milk contains 20 ounces. 



5. PURIFICATION OF .JUICES AND SYRUPS. 



When the beet juice has been treated with lime, 

 it is freed from the greater part of the foreign matters 

 contained and specially those which are more di- 

 rectly hurtful to sugar. These are the azote mailers 

 which, if their action is not destroyed as soon as Ihe 



