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ON BEET-ROOT PULP. 
animals, comfortable standing room, and excellent facility for 
preserving the bed clean and dry. Being rather expensive 
they are almost out of the reach of ordinary tenant-farmers, 
but with cheaper materials the style could be kept sufficiently 
well in view to serve the purpose. 
(To he continued '.) 
ON BEET-ROOT PULP. 
By Dr. Augustus Voelcker. 
In manufactories of beet-root sugar the roots, after having 
been topped and tailed, are thoroughly washed with cold 
water, and then passed through a grating machine, driven by 
steam power, which reduces them to a fine pulp. This pulp, 
with the addition of a little water, is next placed into woollen 
bags ; a number of these, separated from each other by thin 
plates of sheet iron, are placed under presses in piles, and 
submitted to a gradually increasing strong pressure. There 
are other plans of extracting the sugary juice from beet-root, 
but in most manufactories of beet-root sugar the juice is ex- 
tracted by pressure of the grated roots. The residue left in 
the bags after pressure, or the fibrous portion of the roots, is 
the refuse which, under the name of beet-root pulp, is used 
extensively on the continent for feeding purposes. Beet-root 
pulp is much valued in Belgium, France, and Germany, for 
its fattening properties. In several places in Belgium, 
recently visited by myself and Mr. Jenkins, we saw fattening 
beasts kept almost exclusively upon beet-root pulp ; although 
the beasts at the time of our visit were not in a fat condition, 
they were evidently doing well upon that food. 
The manufacture of beet-root sugar, most readers are 
aware, has recently been taken in hand in England with a 
fair chance of ultimate success. There is every likelihood 
that in another year Silesian sugar-beet will be grown much 
more largely than in the past, and probably at no very 
distant period beet-root sugar manufactories will spring up 
in various parts of England, and the refuse pulp be placed at 
the command of the stock-feeder in abundance. For this 
reason it seemed to me desirable to make an inquiry into the 
composition of beet-root pulp, and to place before the readers 
of the journal the results, which I trust will enable them to 
form a correct view of the nutritive properties of beet-root 
pulp, and the uses to which it may be applied. 
The material from which the subjoined analysis was made 
