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BULLETIN 74. 
beet to soak in a constantly moving bath of hot water until 
the sugar is dissolved out. Thus the pulp comes in contact 
with no chemicals whatever to impair its healthfulness as a 
food product. Any unhealthful property that the pulp 
might have must therefore be laid to outside contamination 
or other causes, and not to any process in the manufacture 
of sugar from the beets. After coming out of the hot water 
bath, the pulp is run into an immense vat or storage silo for 
future disposition. 
The purchase price of pulp in this state is 35 to 50 cents 
per ton at the factory and a lower price than this is often 
made to farmers who furnish beets. 
Beets produce approximately fifty percent of their 
weight of pulp, and in some places an amount of pulp is 
given back corresponding to the amount of beets furnished. 
Extravagant prices have been paid for pulp in some in¬ 
stances. A note published in one of the eastern farm 
papers quoted a price per ton obtained for pulp one dollar 
in excess of the price paid originally for the beets. Where 
the pulp has to be shipped from the factory for a short dis¬ 
tance an additional sum, say fifty cents per ton, would have 
to be added to the price to pay freight. Then there is the 
hauling of it from the car, which makes another item of ex¬ 
pense of say 25 cents per ton if the distance is two miles or 
less. This makes the total expense 75 cents per ton plus 
the price of the pulp at the factory. This would make the 
total cost, within a reasonable distance of the factory, $1.25 
per ton for wet pulp. The loss of water will cause continual 
shrinkage. The amount of shrinkage cannot be estimated, 
but will depend largely upon whether the pulp has been 
pressed at the factory, or whether it is obtained from the 
discharge pipe or taken from the silo where it has drained 
for a greater or less length of time. 
The palatability of pulp, when properly handled, is un¬ 
questioned. Our experience at this Station is that horses, 
cattle and sheep, and especially such of these as are used to 
roots, relish puip and will eat it greedily. Our pure bred 
sheep that are kept on the College farm broke through 
the fence repeatedly to get at a pile of pulp. The horses 
also were especially fond of it, and while the cattle did not 
appear so greedy they ate it heartily. A little difficulty was 
encountered in getting some Mexican lambs, with which we 
were experimenting, to eat the pulp, but in a few weeks 
time they were consuming a considerable quantity of it. 
The hogs used in this experiment acted much the same way, 
not caring for the pulp and almost absolutely refusing to 
