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the uprights is 3 feet 4 inches, and the spa^e bet- 

 ween the platform and the cap 3 feet. 



A factory fitted to make 200,000 pounds of beets 

 has 8 hydraulic presses. 



The pulp is taken out of the troughs hy hand 

 shovels or machine shovels and placed in woolen bags; 

 the bag is placed on a table and the open end turned 

 over and the pulp spread uniformly. On the top of 

 the first bag there is placed a piece of sheet iron 

 called a claie, then another bag and another rlaie 

 and so >n. When the pile is sufficiently high a 

 workman called the press^nan places the sacks and 

 claies on the platform of the press. The load upon 

 the platform being sufficient, movement is given it 

 by starting the pump. Under the powerful action of 

 the press the juice runs out, and reduces the pulp 

 to twenty per cent of the weight of the beets. When 

 the pressing is finished, the pump is stopped and the 

 platform descends. A. workman called the depresseur 

 takes the sacks in which is the dry pulp, while the 

 pressman takes his claies. The pressed bags are taken 

 to a place where women or children empty them of 

 their dry pulp by shaking them, then they are again 

 used in the press until it is necessary to wash them. 



The juire of the pulp runs by the trenches into a 

 juice lifter. 



4. JUICE LIFTER. 



The juice lifter is used to lift the juice by steam 

 pressure. It is a cylinder of strong sheet iron, furn- 

 ished at the upper end with a double tube for the 



