172 FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC, 



A most interesting, well constructed type of underground silo 

 of 4,000 cubic meters capacity intended for distillery beet resi- 

 duum was seen by the writer at the Ferme de la Briche, France. 

 The refuse is carried from rnash tubs in cars C (Fig. 15), in 

 which it is mixed with chopped straw, hay, etc. A movable 

 partition P (19.68 X 11.48 feet), having the exact dimensions of 

 the silo's cross section, is mounted on wheels and placed a short 

 distance from the end wall. The intervening space is filled 

 with closely packed pulp, thus preventing fermentation, and a 

 layer of 10 inches of earth covers the top. The partition is 

 moved backward, and the foregoing operations are repeated. It 

 is said that beet pulp, under such conditions, will keep for 

 years; it is taken from the silo in vertical slices. 



