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looked, and in his ignorance and prejudice he advocates that a 

 still more valuable pulp from the beet should meet the same 

 fate as that from potatoes. If this pulp utilization was a new 

 idea, the question might be open to discussion; but the practice 

 has existed in France for the past seventy years, and far from 

 the diffusion pulp being refused by the farmers as perhaps the 

 above quoted correspondence would convey they are unwilling 

 to grow beets unless a certain proportion of the weight is re- 

 turned in pulp, for which they pay a reasonable price. If the 

 Maine Beet Sugar Company was unfortunate enough to have this 

 contention with farmers who are unable to see what is to their 

 own interest, that is no reason why all American factories should 

 have the same difficulty. In conclusion it should be said, 

 that the refuse from a starch factory has no more relation to the 

 secondary products of a beet-sugar factory than the primitive 

 roots have to each other. If, at the first, the nourishing equiva- 

 lents of the beet and the potato had been compared, all would 

 have been in favor of the latter; but the various processes of 

 starch manufacture have attained a greater degree of perfection 

 than those of the product of the beet. The problem of starch 

 manufacture is far easier, because the numerous saline difficulties 

 are not presented. This becomes more apparent when the re- 

 sults obtained at numerous starch factories are considered; the 

 refuse from those at Watertown, for example containing only 

 0.01 to 0.1 per cent, of the original starch found in the potato. 

 At the Delaware factory the demand for the beet pulp was so 

 great that the company was unable to supply even one-half of 

 what might have been sold. The same may be said of the 

 Franklin Company. The Alvarado factory at first was not so 

 fortunate, but California farmers now commence to appreciate 

 the value of this refuse, as is demonstrated by the dairying ex- 

 periment of the current campaign. 



Of the annoying prejudices against pulps and beets we may 

 mention one coming under our notice in the Northern States, 

 where it was asserted that the amount of milk a cow would give 

 per day would be diminished, and the milk would have a taste 

 that might or might not be objectionable. Another example: 

 One of our friends at Bryn Mawr. near Philadelphia, was feed- 



