ECONOMICAL TRANSPORTATION. 235 



juice. Another item of economy is that the pulp is 

 not carried from the factory to the farm, and thereby di- 

 minished in value, by being as it fi"equently is, exposed 

 to the air for several days, during which time it may 

 have lost much of its nourishing properties, by being 

 submitted to excessive rains, etc. When, at the rape- 

 rie, on the contrary, the farmer has fresh pulp directly 

 from the beets he has furnished without loss of time 

 or of quality. How frequently it occurs that given 

 crops are poor from want of water, owing to the ex- 

 cessive dryness of the season. These dangers are not 

 to be dreaded on the farms in the direct neighborhood 

 of the raperies, as water can be furnished when re- 

 quired through the pipes which are in direct commu- 

 nication with the factory. It has also been proposed 

 to irrigate wnth the distiller's wash resulting from the 

 distillation of molasses, this containing the foreign ele- 

 ments of the primitive beets ; in this manner we would 

 return to the soil to a great extent what had been 

 previously extracted. 



Conclusions. — From all that has been said we may 

 conclude that the various plans of economical trans- 

 portation vary with circumstances, that is to say: — 



1. If we have at our disposal within four miles the 

 land required to supply an ordinary sugar factory with 

 beets, by all means adopt Mr. Decauville's porteur. 



2. If there exist several yards diflPerence in the ele- 

 vation of the farm and factory, which is in the direct 

 vicinity (that is one mile) adopt Provin's idea. 



