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Jaxvary 28, 1860.} THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 79 
f = ii details open to criticism shame has | into the fermentation-tubs, where it remains 24 4, hours, | fa attening. X. Baudement, in his very clever report 
- the sated me, ae aan on to build D bette g rras d. to thè quantity of pul pulp yee rod 
compe “ste , e go anywhere but I s “new There are in the Chssmponscia process several. points by a of r after sete eg, which being 
cottage y ‘It with all "desirable ‘regard {í for the comfort | which greatly recommend adoption, from their | dedu vied fe rom os. Zd. there remains, as the net cost 
cottages Dur rar cre simplicity and economy. For EEA the hot water of the alcohol extracted from one ton ofr oots, the sum 
and dece ‘yet te uch more cottage t —“ ng e necessary to the maceration of the slices is supplied | of 13s. 2d.; and, consegently, the cost of c one gallon of 
js room ie gig there are yet alas! penis cai after the first day from the none of the still, that is, sare would stand at about Is. 7d. This figure, how- 
; genres cng al the ole evils are in full force. tiv the juice itself minus its alcohol. This juice when oes not represent the actual cost of a gallon of 
a ot ich iat with a landholde l has a suffici rently high t it fit f he market. When it comes out of the 
se as ii Ba true light.” See page 850, pes aoa ree to macerate the poke, and thus effect a great | still it contains a certain quantity of essential oils, and 
ques “ae 1868. onomy of fuel. By this plan O per cent. of its bulk of water. This mixture 
Gaz may remain suspended in the ani after the | is orn under the name of Flegme, a ot must either 
nties 100 miles “ato a I have not aoe ased has been removed is not wasted, but is again be rec ctified | ors sold in | the regen as i rocess 
landowners regarding it asa absorbed by the pulp; 50 that t in reality me: root has S| of r he usual strength of alcohol 
duty to build farm “erg gs, which will enable | lost ne ig of its constituents excep s about 94. to the ost of a a gallo on of 
intelligent farmers, who a e possessed of the ge producing s ugar. Another important P of a spirit distiid from Beet-roo' t 
es ualifications, to ke eep pace with the pid es is what is called the continuous fermentation. | 2s. 4d. So it m asspme ed, that when- 
money q th i patay; o produce the necessary fermentation in ever the as of spirits wil. iw a profit upon that 
enon A 1 point of view. If mym h tub it was arias $e add each time a certain | cost, i is 7 lig ay ji in distilling ; when other- 
r read that the Duke of AEEY e np Ave before the y antiko of beer ferm ast. This not only occa- | wise, there is a 1 
eeting held to inaugurate e the opening of the Dundee | sioned a certain expenditure; int also great irregularity 
toed Exchange, that speculative science is much in| inthe fermentation. The system of continuous fermen- Of English experience on this ps we iaa it 
advance of practical skill. Now , Mr. Editor, you and tation consists in running, withou any interruption, ry e He appendix to the pap of M. T: 
ultu ral p h jui Nia eai y 
g ies of home- rown | tubs, : alread filled with juice in a fermented state ; so mtg main facts are, that during the winter of 
hod ig ria oads; 5 A a wh properti es a te nant k yu and its | 1857-8,-7000 gallons of "proof spirit nie distilled from 
farmer whose feeding sheds are constructed on the most consequent ‘transtormation into alcohol is continuous, | rather more than 700 = of Mangel Wurzel, averag- 
imitive old- fashioned Pate e? Such sheds, which | and b nenta-|ing, therefore, nearly 1 a tea ton, and that 
E nclemency of the weathe r tion is complete, and the juice is Meena. for the still.” | during some weeks the produc "I gal- 
| ia coc it big a me? 260 pe ies fermentation and 
: wali in atA n eat as but e who | parison of 18 distillations e that i it takes 2 tons 6 cwts, | Gistiliation, amounte per cen ra origina’ 
T = vay experience in it open feeding = ‘er so that 3 qrs. of roots to produce an desa pi al of absolute | roots, and were saleable 10s. per ton for feeding 
eattle in open yards remain in a stationary hol (i. e. of the strength of 100 degrees), equal to purposes; that the s spirit w was mi worth: more than 1s. 
during boisterous oar | shout 22 imperial gallons. The expenses attending the | per gallon, ility of separating from 
gain, it is well known that a labouring man’s wife | management of the Champonnois process of distilling it an acrid essential oil which made it unfit for drinking 
ean ee geht panan Mints which 3 is eaten in her own | amounts to 6s. 53d. per ton of roots, divided as Ora and that, owing to this difficulty, x the 
in k | follows :— ope p reaching e market price of good 
tia Sii nëstrál spiri ee worth 1s. 10d, to-2s. per gill, th 
the following day, both of which the eae of eae? various expenses. KH) wks cig TE experiment en entailed a Toss. "The method a “gp carom 
; — ploughmen have to eat in the open field. Interest and repai m viar 38 that of Leplay, in which the fermentation on 
ta ibles Total oe in the sliced root, and the a is separated by super- 
sti “So that the p n pron Bo hectolitre or 22 | The “ cossets” 
i i i i som! of spirits ed ed to og ees amounts to vessels after | the process of distillation is com ee are 
ority of aint hmen having to reside in | © e 15s. Bh, uF shout Sid pe N Se But t P ie at cae compl DA 
cst eat be "aad the difference between the Aa | út for food after e lapse of months. In this res 
casion co! rn T Beet root before and after maceration, z is Leplay’: s me dere $n phe eve ~ to be superior to that of 
e ou may ob: eke n the raw Mangel and | the pulp. Th is eae being ent nois; ayti = e A s matter, i i his process, 
$ i hs 1 turning pn oj SETEK jabie to fur er ermen 
emerging from the cottages, w nd are o ckly studded | .. ffer, and i r ng eat aipa A eo iem fely 
i tible of being reclaimed for cultiv: salto extreme caution sn i prison reserve in its Aa ng. | Mr. i bberd states that, E ATARE the winter 
; e Kea s residence and the Honi steading, the To come to a right estimate we must begin by ascer- of "18578 8 he fed 29 milch cows on hay and pu Ip 
walls of which consist of wooden boards nailed to NA | at t ae sto rae Rg bint do Sa th now y well. 
; i what v: pien alcohol it will yield by disti peel we | On one or 
teh, posts whi ch a re fixed i ina brick wall about 2 fe know the cost of m Epa eira wen Pye can be fed on vo oe ay ‘oe at once T a g: 
EE ince be easil tard accurately determine it off from their ordinary yield of m 
; paa ere on hy pena ferme two the RA of a ton of Man gels, because the circum- so much so that the cowmen, who path ye first muc 
nites morni en gree to and from the farms | Stances by which of pulp, ultimately declared 
: upon which they are yed, which is not ay and so much aad ap with other accounts, th at it is |shetr t preference of it to roots of any kind. The cows 
fatiguing to the labourer, } Dut it unfits him for mental | next to impossible to ascertain its cost wit anything | no milked well, but kept their condition better 
ecrea like certainty. ‘There are two ways of making the) i wagon en and the pulp, was fe at the 10s. per ton 
_ You state, ar = ting « it Gescrintesat f the calculation ; one by ascertaining the cost of production, | charged for it. It is the ordinary experience of oa 
type ofcountry cottas: ges,” ant yet eg which, as I have just stated, is next to impossible—the | feeders, and of Mr. Hibberd among others, tha 
says the same author, “ entitled to, . comfortable other by taking as a basis the selling price of the roots. | Mangel Warz els are unsuitable as food till late in 
_ resting-place to recruit hi is “strength 2 e agri- Of the two the former asep of course be the most | winter, owing to the laxative effect which they produce 
t aboure £ s satisfactory, fi or the selling p: of any sis by no ae pisn) fed on them early in the season. This 
the most productive of all labourers. And on the means a criteri ven their Tatrinsic value; but I will j eff T wie by the sa r after 
É question of thews and sinews only, if there be any truth take the latter as the only one available. It may be distillation, at —— season it was given; the cows, 
in the principles and findings of animal chemistry on | sum e average market value of Beet-root in e feeding on it, continuing all the time in cee 
which you now house and , curry, and feed your France, taking the rage of the last six aon is about hi e Tt wi A E one bey gea 
n D a k me an a anipulati s Fie To bi hing i its sugar, bad, eens 1 Aan it. 
ofany. Damp, nasty, ave seen, it follows the he quantity o: r. Hi ce was ved from 
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majority of áa the pulp as compared with the root? A great many qualit he original root, per His failure in 
nae of. Balt ion wae tse experiments have been made by the partisans of dis- + due to. th the. unsaleable ‘ia E3 the spirit, not 
done—the building of the requisite number of cottages tilleries; and if we were to accept the ner oo 8 
adjacent to each farm steading, or at least say one have drawn it would appear that the pulp is equal in confidently anticipates, so e shall sets been 
for every 50 acres of the fev of each DU qualities to r hemselyes, weight for ened pë saimi hen ential oil, 
: m. ink tha weight. I shall presently refer to some of the experi- to which ees re erior quality of E the ap “pint is owing, 
‘ could give an approximate esti ar of the cost of) ments that have been made, in order to gi f iea in his opinion, to the pro- 
; erecting such a number of houses. The statements of| the manner in which fa were conducted. _ Nearly bs ‘fitable ERRUA of Beet-root distillation 1 in England. 
: Mr. adap A tenant gos at Dumpton, near Ram till ited by u order, however, to the success of any new enterprise 
fre, show hint: Heed? ere isir his. roin for| paseetel Society stated that from their experience the| [of this kind, meant a oes at var? step of the 
: gitar, ame is vagis to too many ppi equa al to the » roots. Thus, out of 18 dis iA i t bea At present th e Beet-root 
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then sliced in the usual way into longitudinal pieces. cannot be established b; mere assertion 
$ These are placed in the soaking-tubs with hot + water, to | distillers. 
macerate. The object of that t process is to dissolve the | certain that pulp 
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to 25 per le. The pulp 1oses by maceration from 20 | to cattle, 1 nie aeng 
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- Amount of saccharine juice obtained. This juice is rua | any farinaceons food, it 
