300 THE POTATO 



MANUFACTURING AT KYRITZ, GERMANY 



During the season of 1910 the senior author 

 made a study of manufacturing potato products 

 in Germany, and his notes follow: 



"The manufacture of starch, potato, flour and 

 glucose at this place was started in 1872. It is 

 now one of the largest and most successful manu- 

 facturing centres. The factory there claims to 

 produce the best product in Germany. There 

 are from twenty to thirty factories in the country. 



"The factory is an immense affair, as large as 

 a million dollar beet-sugar factory in the United 

 States and equipped with the finest machinery. 

 Everything in the factory is kept polished and 

 clean. Germans are noted for this in all their 

 manufacturing plants. 



"Potatoes come to the factory in cars in bulk. 

 The factory starts about September 1st, or as soon 

 as starch is developed in the potatoes. 



"The company which owns and operates the 

 factory is owned jointly by the growers and busi- 

 ness men of Kyritz. It must be operated at a 

 profit. As manager, Mr. Bergmann was anxious 

 to know if there were opportunities for factories 

 in America. 



"In the factory every economy that German 

 science and mechanics can invent is employed for 

 the cheap handling of the product, for saving 

 greatest per cent, of high-class products and con- 

 serving the by-products. 



"One of the most interesting features was a 

 pipe line for carrying the water that had been 

 used in extracting the starch from the sliced or 

 pulped potato to a waste piece of sand land grown 



