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moisture, it drops into a screw-conveyor, the low-product mo- 

 lasses with it, and contains about 25 per cent, of water just 

 before entering the dryer. The dryer is a large drum, made 

 similar to a sugar granulator, being 6 feet in diameter and 40 

 feet long. There will be two of them making 6 revolutions 

 per minute. Inside the drum enters a hot-air conduit (cone- 

 shaped) perforated with 600 4-inch holes. There is an inner 

 shell, one-half inch from the outer, running the full length of 

 the drum, having shelves similar to a sugar granulator. This 

 inner one is to protect the outer from coming in contact with 

 the vapors, and also to retain the heat. The heat is generated 

 by a coal or coke furnace, and is drawn through the drum by a 

 suction fan at the discharge end, the heat being very intense on 

 entering, but leaving the drum at only 130. After traveling 

 40 feet in 35 minutes the pulp leaves the dryer, containing from 

 7 to 1 1 per cent, moisture. After passing through a set of roll- 

 ers, being ground as fine as bran, it is then sacked for foreign 

 shipment and baled so that a ton will go in 72 cubic feet. A 

 40 H. P. engine will supply all the power needed, and the build- 

 ing has two floors 50 feet wide by 75 feet long. . . . The cost 

 is ... $16,000, and the expense is about one dollar per ton 

 of dry pulp." 



The official reports appertaining to the success of this plant 

 were not favorable, while at Alma, where the second plant has 

 been introduced, they are much more encouraging. 



New York may be considered one of the important dairying New York. 

 States of ,the East, as it there has an influence directly and in- 

 directly upon the entire rural question. During a long period 

 of years farmers have been feeding brewers' wastes, and realize 

 that the milk and butter from cows thus fed have been bene- 

 fited. No other product within the past few years met the 

 requirements of cheap dairying production better than this. 

 Hence there has been comparatively little trouble in inducing 

 the farmer to handle the product from the existing beet-sugar 

 factories. This has been a considerable financial assistance to 

 the Binghamton factory, who were able to dispose of their resi- 

 duum at an average price of about 75 cents per ton. 



At one time New York farmers were somewhat alarmed at 



