DEPARTMENT OF FOODS AND FEEDING. 



L DRIED MOLftSSES-BEET-PULP. 



lOSEPH B. LINDSEY* 



A. Method of Manufacture. 



B. Character of the Product. 



C. Composition of The Product. 



D. DigestibiHty[of Molasses- Beet-Pulp. 



E. Feeding Experiment with Cows. 



F. Method of Feeding Molasses-Beet-Pulp. 



G. Is it Economy for Farmers to Use the Product ? 



A. METHOD OF MANUFACTURE. 



The Alma Sugar Co., (Alma. Mich.) describes the process of 

 manufacture as follows : 



" In the sugar factory the beets are thoroughly washed, then 

 shredded and placed in large cylinders. Pure water is admitted and 

 the sugar soaked out by the diffusion process. This liquor is drawn 

 off and the pulp, containing 92 per cent moisture and } per cent 

 sugar, is conveyed at once to the drier where it is first run through 

 presses reducing the moisture to 82 per cent. Residuum molasses 

 from the sugar factory containing 50 per cent sugar is next mixed 

 with the pressed pulp. This mixture is then put into the kilns where 

 it is thoroughly dried by direct heat. The drying process lasts 35 

 minutes. Immediately upon coming from the kilns the pulp is sacked 

 and ready for shipment. One hour from the time the sugar is 

 extracted from the beets the Dried Molasses-Beet-Pulp is in sacks 

 ready for use." 



*\Vith E. B. Holland. P. H. Smith and J. G. Cook. 



