ON BEET-ROOT PULP. 465 
was obtained from Mr. James Duncan’s beet-root sugar 
manufactory at Lavenham. 
The pulp here made is sold to the farmers, who supply the 
roots at the rate of 12s. per ton. The pulp is tolerably dry, 
and is greyish-white in appearance. It has, when fresh, a 
rather insipid, or but slightly sweet taste, and rapidly turns 
faintly acid on keeping. The pulp is obtained at the manu- 
factory in the form of thin press-cakes, which can be readily 
broken in pieces and mixed without difficulty with straw-chaff, 
meal, and such like materials. 
In its natural state the pulp contains from 70 to 72 per 
cent, of moisture, and thus it embodies a much larger per 
centage of solid feeding matter than the roots from which it 
is obtained, and still more than ordinary mangolds, in which 
the proportion of water amounts on an average to about 88 
per cent. 
On submitting the Lavenham refuse pulp to a detailed 
analysis I obtained the following results : 
Composition of Beet-root Bulp from Lavenham. 
Moisture ....... 70-11 
* Albuminous compounds (flesh-forming matters) . . 2 25 
Sugar ....... 3 - 39 
Mucilage and pectinous compounds . . . 193 
Digestible cellular fibre ..... 15 '13 
Woody fibre (cellulose) . . . . 5 ’32 
Mineral matter (ash) ..... T87 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen ! . . *361 
We learn from the preceding analytical results — 
1. That this pulp contains, in round numbers, 30 per 
cent, of dry feeding matter. 
2. That an appreciable amount of sugar is retained in the 
P u ip. 
More sugar probably was left in this residue than is usual, 
owing to the circumstance that the roots were rather flabby 
when they were worked up for sugar, and in that condition 
could not be grated so thoroughly as fresher beets, and the 
juice in consequence could not be squeezed out so completely 
as from more perfectly rasped beets. 
3. That a large proportion of the fibre is readily digestible ; 
and 
4. That beet-root pulp contains a considerable propor- 
tion of albuminous or flesh-forming matters. 
The next analysis was made from a specimen of French 
pulp, which yielded the following results : 
