1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
737 
A BEET-PULP DRIER. 
Making Hay Out of Waste. 
A Dry Room. —A. W. Hoppenstedt and 
R. J. Decker, of New York City, are 
now completing a beet-pulp drier to be 
used at the factory of the Binghamton 
Beet Sugar Company, at Binghamton, 
N. Y., for drying the beet pulp. This 
drier is an invention recently patented, 
and it will be the first attempt to dry 
the beet pulp in such a manner in this 
country, although it has been done suc¬ 
cessfully in Germany by a somewhat 
similar process. The drier consists of 
two buildings made of brick, with walls 
16 inches thick, lined inside with fire 
brick; the drier proper being 5x17 feet, 
12 feet high, and the furnace with at¬ 
tached dust-chamber for generating the 
gases used for drying, 8x12 feet, 13 feet 
high. 
Removing Water. —The pulp is to be 
dried by hot air furnished by burning 
coal in a grate similar to that used in 
an ordinary boiler, and drawn into the 
drier or oven. This oven is constructed 
with curved iron platforms, trough-like 
in shape, arranged one above another, 
in which screw conveyors pass the pulp 
from center to end and reverse, the pulp 
traveling each platform but once, while 
kept constantly in contact with the hot 
air coming direct from the grate, the 
vapors being continually drawn off as 
fast as generated. The pulp is what re¬ 
mains of the beet after the sugar has 
been taken out, and as water is used in 
extracting the sugar, the pulp contains 
more water when it comes out of the 
factory than the beet did -when it went 
in. 
The pulp is first passed through 
presses, which squeeze out the surplus 
water. It is then conducted to the top 
of the oven or drying chamber, and 
forced in at the center of the upper 
rotary conveyor, which is provided with 
right and left screw windings, so that 
the pulp is carried toward each end, 
where it drops 'into the next conveyor 
below, which works in the opposite di¬ 
rection, forcing the pulp to the center, 
Where it falls to the conveyor below and 
so on, becoming drier as it passes 
through each conveyor, until it reaches 
the bottom. Here it is taken out in a 
carrier and run into a baling press, 
where it is put up in bales similar to 
hay and straw. The temperature in the 
oven will be kept at about 650 degrees 
F., as the pulp contains from 80 to 90 
per cent of water, and it is necessary to 
evaporate this moisture very rapidly in 
order to take as much of the output of 
the factory as possible. When leaving 
the oven the dry pulp will contain only 
10 or 12 per cent of moisture. An ex¬ 
haust fan running at about 800 revolu¬ 
tions per minute draws the hot air into 
the drying chambers, and discharges the 
resulting vapors. For making sugar the 
beets are not ground, but sliced or cut 
in nearly round strips about the size of 
a slate pencil, and from two to four 
inches long. 
Beet Hay. —The sugar beets are white 
in color, and so is the pulp when fresh, 
but if allowed to stand exposed to the 
air it soon turns brown. After it is 
dried the pulp looks somewhat similar 
to tea, except that tne color is of a light 
brown. It is asserted that the dried 
beet pulp contains as much nourishment 
per ton as good hay, and is also more 
easily digested. When dried in this 
way it will keep for years, and can be 
shipped by rail at a moderate cost. In 
Germany, when the best hay sells for 
80 marks (or $20) per ton, the dried 
beet pulp brings 100 marks, or $25 a 
ton. 
It is not calculated that this one drier 
will take the entire output of the Bing¬ 
hamton factory, but it will handle a 
large portion of it. Last season the wet 
beet pulp was sold to the farmers for 
feeding stock at 25 cents a ton, and it 
gave excellent results, especially where 
fed to young cattle and to milch cows. 
The neighboring farmers used it all 
Winter, and although it contained a 
large amount of water, which made the 
freight charges high, many carloads 
were shipped by rail to quite a distance; 
but even then there was an immense 
pile remaining, which the company gave 
to the farmers in the Spring for fer¬ 
tilizing purposes 
As the Binghamton Beet Sugar Com¬ 
pany entered the field last year, they 
show considerable enterprise by taking 
the lead in this new industry. There is 
no question that the apparatus will dry 
the pulp, the only uncertainty being as 
to the expense required to do it, and if, 
as is anticipated, the cost of drying is 
far less per ton than the price of hay, 
the enterprise will be a success. 
FRANK HINSDILI,. 
NOTES FROM THE BEEHIVE. 
Unfinished Sections. —At the close of 
the honey flow, when the honey is all 
taken off the hives and sorted, there are 
bound to be more or less unfinished sec¬ 
tions. What to do with them is some¬ 
times a perplexing question. Some of 
them may, of course be used on the 
home table. My method is to sort out 
all sections weighing less than 12 
ounces, shave off the cappings, and put 
them into the extractor. Swing out the 
honey from them, and put them out in 
the apiary some bright warm afternoon, 
and have them all cleaned out by the 
bees. Towards evening, when the bees 
leave them, take them in and use them 
the next season as bait combs. By plac¬ 
ing six or eight of these bait combs in 
the supers with the other sections, the 
bees are induced to begin work in the 
sections much sooner than they other¬ 
wise would. They may be used in feed¬ 
ing weak colonies, by placing them on 
top of the hives, when the bees will 
quickly carry the honey below into their 
brood nest; in this case the honey 
should not be previously extracted, as 
above stated. 
Selling Honey. —Where a beekeeper 
produces honey by the ton he must of 
necessity seek a market for his product. 
Not wishing to send my honey to com¬ 
mission men, to help overstock the mar¬ 
ket and lower the price of honey, I have 
always tried to be my own salesman. I 
have tried selling honey in many ways; 
the most pleasant and also most success¬ 
ful way is selling by sample. I find 
October and November the best months 
in the year to sell honey, so I select a 
pleasant day and put in my satchel some 
nice samples of comb and extracted 
honey and beeswax. I mount my bicycle 
and start for neighboring towns and 
cities, visit the leading groceries and 
show my honey. I guarantee everything 
to be as good as the samples shown, and 
promise to deliver honey safe, sound and 
clean, free from breakage or drip. Al¬ 
most always a sale is effected, and near¬ 
ly always I hold a customer after the 
first purchase. The honey is delivered 
with horse and wagon. My best day’s 
work last year amounted to $57 and 
wagon hire. f. p. h. 
Moore’s Arctic is a highly remunerative 
plum with Archibald Bros., of WolfvIUe, 
N. S., hardy, prolific, and an early bearer. 
This firm grows a variety of plums for the 
Provincial market, this year’s crop being 
about 12,0000 baskets. 
In Union 
There is Strength. 
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True strength consists in the union, the 
harmonious -working together, of every 
part of the human organism. This strength 
can never be obtained if the blood is im¬ 
pure. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the standard 
prescription for purifying the blood. 
Never Disappoints 
‘Always in the Lead and Now Better Than Ever.” 
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BELLOWS FALLS, VERMONT. 
A Winter Egg Producer 
Warm quarters make hens lay, and noth¬ 
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This wonderful insulator is constructed 
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