Scientific American Volume 77 Number 05 (July 1897) . THE LIME KILNS. These bins are so constructed that the beets receivefull ventilation on the sides and from below ; but it isalways the aim of the company to use up each daysdelivery as it comes, much better results being ob-tained when the beets are worked up fresh and crispthan when they are run into the factory in a wiltedor heated condition. The beets are ordered in fordaily delivery by the head agriculturist and his as-sistant in such a systematic manner that the amountbrought in is usually a few tons in excess of or belowthe 800 tons t
Scientific American Volume 77 Number 05 (July 1897) . THE LIME KILNS. These bins are so constructed that the beets receivefull ventilation on the sides and from below ; but it isalways the aim of the company to use up each daysdelivery as it comes, much better results being ob-tained when the beets are worked up fresh and crispthan when they are run into the factory in a wiltedor heated condition. The beets are ordered in fordaily delivery by the head agriculturist and his as-sistant in such a systematic manner that the amountbrought in is usually a few tons in excess of or belowthe 800 tons that are worked up in the factory in eachtwenty-four hours. On floating into the factory the. THE FILTEB PEES8ES, DIFFUSION BATTERIES AND CABBONATION TANKS. beets are passed into a large trough, where they arefreed from the coarser dirt, and then they are carried tothe washer, a huge perforated cylinder in which theyare spun around and further cleansed. They are now carried by an elevator to the roof ofthe building containing the diffusion batteries, etc.,and unloaded into the hopper of a large automaticweighing machine, which as soon as it has received aton of the beets drops them into a slicing machine, inwhich a number of swiftly revolving, serrated knivescut up the beets into thin and narrow slices which areknown as eosettes. In slicing the beets aneffort is made to cut as many as possible of theminute cells in which the saccharine matter isstored. The eosettes are now fed into thediffusion battery, which will be noticed rangeddown the center of the room below the level ofthe slicing machine. The battery consists of aseries of large vessels in which the juice is ex-tracted
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