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Beet Sugar Making 
I lived in ilie State of Wisconsin for 
several yeans previous to the World War, 
and noticed the raising of sugar beets 
was quite an industry among the farmers. 
I am wondering if we Eastern farmers 
could not get some style of home machin¬ 
ery for refining or marketing beet sugar? 
Every year wo raise quite a few sugar 
beets, and use them for feed. Why could 
we not raise an acre of them and have our 
own sugar? At present prices of sugar, I 
am sure it would pay. Of course, I do not 
know anything regarding the process or 
the machinery necessary. I am simply 
asking you if you can give me any infor¬ 
mation. II. J.K. 
New Freedom, Fa. 
Every day brings questions about mak¬ 
ing beet sugar. Most people seem to think 
it a simple process which can be handled 
on a small scale. It is true that a so- 
called syrup may be made by washing the 
beets, slicing them, soaking the slices in 
hot water and then boiling down this 
liquid. A dark-colored, sticky mass re¬ 
sults which has a sweet taste, but a dis¬ 
agreeable odor and taste as well. We 
have not found it satisfactory as a syrup, 
and it would be practically impossible to 
make good beet sugar by any ordinary 
process. This is a business requiring ex¬ 
pensive machinery and outfit, and a large 
quantity of beets. It is a business for big 
enterprises, and not suited to farm manu¬ 
facturing. Several attempts to work beet 
sugar factories in the Eastern States have 
been made, but they all failed. It is a 
business for the Western plains, a free 
location where land is cheap and where a 
large acreage of beets can be grown close 
to the factory. In theory, beet sugar¬ 
making sounds well, but it is not a busi¬ 
ness for small operations. Sorghum or 
Early Amber cane for making syrup is a 
more sensible crop for farmers. 
Not Beans, but Bran 
Not long ago we gave the dry mash 
mixture feed at the Storrs egg-laying con¬ 
test as 100 lbs. beans. 100 lbs. middlings, 
100 lbs. cornmeal. 100 lbs. ground oats, 
100 lbs. gluten feed and 100 lbs. beef 
scrap. This was printed in the Connecti¬ 
cut College "X etc e Letter, and we thought 
we saw in it a new argument for 
beans. It seemed as if beans had been 
ground and mixed with the grains to make 
a good mash. Now these high hopes are 
blasted. It. seems that there was a prin¬ 
ter’s error, and when they announced 
beans they meant bran—our old friend 
wheat bran. Well, we all know the value 
of bran, especially for young stock and for 
the production of growth and bone. The 
bran represents the outer husk of the 
grain and most of the bone-making food 
and salts are found there. That is why 
entire wheat flour is a more nourishing 
food than pure white flour, and why it 
is proper to eat the skin of potatoes and 
apples. Personally, we think bean meal 
will finally be found to be quite equal to 
bran in food value, and we think the beans 
contain more vitamines. New England 
owes much to the long centuries of baked 
bean eating on the part of her people. 
The beans give protein and vitamine to 
the ration of cornbread, fried fish and rye. 
No one can estimate how much the bean- 
pot did toward developing the Yankee 
brain pate. In life the power of the 
bean got inside the human skull and de¬ 
veloped the bursting brain. If it is de¬ 
sired to split open the dead skull it may 
be filled with dry beans and soaked in 
water. The swelling power of the beaus 
will open the skull! 
Knowing the great power of the bean to 
drive human beings to extra effort, we ex¬ 
pected to see the dried beans produce some 
325-egg birds! And now we are told that 
that it isn’t beaus after all, but bran. 
Happily, almost at the same time that 
this blow fell the following came from 
Herkimer Co., N. Y.: 
My wife says, tell them she has been 
reading about the beans for poultry in 
last week’s paper. Our hens were not 
laying very well last Winter, and we have 
a half bushel of poor beans that we cooked 
for them, and fed two quarts a day to 40 
hens. For some reason they started lay¬ 
ing and kept it up into the next October. 
Of course, they did. Who cared to stop 
working on a bean diet? 
Patron : “Can you tell me what ails 
my wife?” Doctor: “She does not take 
enough outdoor exercise.” “She does not 
feel like it.” “True; she needs toning 
up.” “What do you prescribe?” "A new 
liat.” —Melbourne Leader. 
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