. History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . 000 to $50,000 invested in such stations. As the beets arrive at the factory, they are first weighed and then dumpedinto bins for storage or floated directly to the beet washers. While being dumped,a fair sample both of the beets and of the loose dirt which the car or wagon con-tains is caught in a basket. These samples, properly tagged, are conveyed to thebeet laboratory where they
. History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . 000 to $50,000 invested in such stations. As the beets arrive at the factory, they are first weighed and then dumpedinto bins for storage or floated directly to the beet washers. While being dumped,a fair sample both of the beets and of the loose dirt which the car or wagon con-tains is caught in a basket. These samples, properly tagged, are conveyed to thebeet laboratory where they are trimmed, if not properly topped, and the difter-ence in the weight of the samples as received and their weight when trimmed is called the tare. Whatever percentage this amounts to, is applied to anddeducted from the wisight of the car or wagon load. A sample of these beetsthen is tested by the polariscope for its sugar content and its purity; farmers oftenare paid a stipulated price per ton for beets of a given sugar content and twenty-five to thirty-three and one-third cents per ton additional for each extra degreeof sugar which they contain. The tare rooms and the beet testing laboratories. LOS ALAMITOS SUGAR FACTORY
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