Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 270, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1937 — Page 15

jew Soy Bean Plant Is First One Here

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> .si IMCKS ■dlyneed . j| RIGHT CARE tleanlness And Proper MMnii Important To I Poultry Success t U - — . ■WWI.-jinahj folks planning to Bite lay clin ks during the compoultry experts at McMills suggest the vast BixiriW' of determining upon a ■efinite biogiain ami adhering to I B They tub that the importance ■t gogthiuli quality chicks cannot Be itrAeil too much. Get the best Any slight exBra coat will soon be repaid in lowglity and healthier birds. [the brooder house and all It before the chicks arrive, t stove at least two full Kvauce and check its tern- | carefully. It should be ween 90 and 95 degrees at of the hover for the first and gradually reduced to Is at the end of the second pm then on it can be lowtegrees weekly. Srs well-filled with Master k Starter should be placed wider when the chicks ars hoppers should be kept 1 d at all times. The Master Starter is a well-balan- ■ nußni and the chicks will not. ner-eat. Upon arrival the chicks should l>< placed in the brooder lnt ‘ W’ c ' ose t° the hover by plat'Wwjjrcle of wire netting around at about two feet distant. , After •rec days this can be re- , rawed. of lukewarm water J ihoqld bo constantly available and 1 ti eight feet of hopper space i f°r each 100 chicks. plenty of fresh air to en-. e rJßhrood(’r house in front and 1 “ llo W|)ut avoid all floor drafts. I ' Keepytli,’ litter clean. Wash theli and drinking fountains c ’lly.|i keep well-filled. r Tresi green feeds can be fed : af teß the first week. A small a- ‘ 10| Ul®>f chick grains can be pla-i f ‘«re the birds after the third °‘ MKtb week. six weeks change fira jßly to Master Mix Growing grains can be hopper feeding space increased to 15 feet for each 100 chicks. '; should be fed daily tin birds are placed on the the range is clean and provided before the turned out. Cockerels separated from tin pullas possible. Master Mix kJ® 8 Mash and scratch grains kept in well-filled sepat all times , By !il the Pullets start io lay gradually to Master Mix before the birds arei ! jßr Home grains can be hopThi program has been tried, h aud proven successful."

Scale House Handles 620 Trucks One Day The scale house operated by the Central Sugar Company is a very busy place. It has handled as high as 560 beet trucks and 60 bean trucks per day. This is approximately tyo trucks received in twelve hours, or about qne truck per minuteThe scale is open from 6 A. M. to 6 P. M„ five days a week for receiving beets and weighing beans. It has a scale capacity of 60,060 pounds. BUILDERS OF PYRAMIDSHAD SUGAR BEETS History Shows Food Value Has Been Recognized Through Ages The sugar beet, known botanically as Beta vulgaris, is the most important member of the Chenopodiaceae family. The “beet" itself is, for the most part, an enlarged tap root, white in color, which extends almost straight downward, to a depth of from two to six feet, gradually diminishing in diameter until it becomes threadlike in size. The first six inches of the root are almost free of side, roots. Below this point, however, an extensive and elaborate system of lateral roots) and rootlets is developed. The upper lateral roots extend, almost horizontally, to a distance of from two to three feet. The foliage has a rich, brilliant green color and grows to a height of about fourteen inches. The oldest leaves are on the outside, the youngest toward the center. Each leaf has prominent veins aud a long petiole which broadens out at the base; the blade is large and

Extracting Oil From Soybeans i . sfISHBS 7 / . or? ? jx. k I. wffiS&O —• • - '"'ww PbIREP* WLwk, ...... ■ w&h. -V f BrE^’ v ’ W> : J I ,<<!?.l--1v ’’1 These inassfve machines form a step in the process ol’ extracting oil from soybeans and making soybean oil meal In these expellers cracked and heated beans are squeezed through a narrow ng cylmdei tinI til all but a small percentage of oil is removed. This picture was taken at the Central boya Co. Plant.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1937.

RIGHT FEED BRINGS GOOD DAIRY PROFIT Correct Balance Between Proteins And Other Factors Spells Success Profits, which in turn are the life blood of the dairy industry, are dependant upon healthy cows, properly cared for and properly fed , Experts at McMillen Feed Mills making the following suggestions: “McMillen Feed Mills in manti-' facturing Master Mix 32% Dairy Concentrate gave careful consideration to the feed problems confronting dairymen. Accordingly this concentrate was developed to provide a choice variety of digestible nutrients which when mixed with available local grains comprises a valuable dairy ration of 16% or 20% as desired by the feeder. . “The ingredients which composei Master Mix 32% Dairy Concentrate ’ have been selected with the utmost care and each serves a defi-' nite purpose. Dried beet pulp, long acknowledged to be of great importance in a dairy ration, is one of the important ingredients. Dried beet pulp increases palatability, digestibility and bulk with a corresponding increase in milk production. “Molasses is another ingredient which is important from the viewpoint of nutrition, and palatability. Soybean oilmeal is another of the ingredients which provides an excellent source of digestible protein. Corn gluten feed and corn gluten meal, both of which are present in Master Mix 32% Dairy Concentrate add nutrition and with other varieties of proteins constitute the basis of an ideal concentrate. As it is also supplemented with the necessary minerals this concentrate gives the feeder all the elements needed for making his own

complete ration. "As a source of varied, highly digestible protein Master Mix 32% Dairy Concentrate is unexcelled. By using it with available grains dairy feeders have an inexpensive, perfectly balanced ration which will increase their milk production without adding to feeding costs.' roughly triangular in shape at the base, and longer than broad. Where the sugar beet originated is a matter of some doubt among historians, but all are agreed that it was found growing wild in southern and middle Asia, and it is generally conceded that it was cultivated by the ancients in southern Europe and northern Africa. In the writings of Herodotus, the sugar beet is mentioned as being one of the plants which was used as food by the builders of the Pyramids, and according to Voltz, the Romans first brought the sugar beet into Gaul. Originally, when grown in southern latitudes, the sugar beet was an annual, but when taken north, it adapted itself to the climatic conditions of the northerly latitudes by becoming a biennial, storing sugar the first yet|r in the tap root and not producing seed till the second year. The sugar beet owes its economic value to the fact that this change was wrought since, when grown commercially as a source of sugar, it is harvested during the first year of its growth when its sugar content is the highest. Had lite sugar beet remained an an-1 nual, it is not at all probable that it would ever have taken its place as one of the most important I sources of sugar known to man. — I (From the story of Beet Sugar by Dr. J. Arthur Brock, published by the Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar Association.)

Extraction Plant Near Completion f ■ •/ - n «Mr . ... ........ . This photo was taken only a few weeks ago. ( shows the Central Soya Company's new extraction plant which houses the only HansaMuhle equipment in America.

Experts Offer Suggestions For Feeding Baby Chickens

With the'approach of the baby , chick season the following sttgges- 1 tions from the nutritional experts j of McMillen Feed Mills, where Mas-1 ter Mix feeds are made here in De | catur are regarded as of timely interest: "Master Mix poultry mashes are 1 scientifically prepared to consti-l ’ tute a well-balanced ration which ■ will produce rapid sturdy growth in ' young chicks and maintain laying ■ hens in good production. ■ I “Master Mix Chick Starter 1 Don't feed chicks for 48 hours asI ter hatching. Then keep plenty of 5 this high-nutrition ration before ’ the baby chicks at all times. Ample - hopper space should be provided I I in a well-lighted location. The ' chicks will not over eat hut, be sure ■J to keep plenty of clean drinking ' water in each brooder house. As--1

LIME IS GIVEN TO FARMERS Valuable Soil Conditioning Material Given To Growers By Sugar Co. Soil which has been under consistent cultivation over an extended period of years frequently develops an acid condition detrimental to subsequent crops. To assist in alleviating this circumstance the Central Sugpr Co. has made a practice for the past seasons of furnishing free lime to the farmers of this area. This lime which is used primarily in one operation in the purification of sugar syrup, is a highly valuable chemical in counteracting soil acidity. It has been and still is available without cost to farmers who desire it for conditioning their land. To assist farmers in getting this ! valuable lime, th« Central Sugar Co. has at stated intervals engaged a drag line loader wa’.ch has, without cost to the farmers, loaded all the lime they desired into their trucks. There is still more of this lime at the Central Sugar Co. plant and officials there are ready and willing to advise local farm residents i concerning it. Visitors have often asked about ; the huge heaps that resemble snow land when advised that the “heaps” were lime valued at $3 to $lO per i ton. were amazed that the sugar company was giving it away without cost to farmers but were informed that it was part of the Mr-

ter the first week, fresh green stuff should be fed daily and a small amount of chick grains can be provided after the fourth week. “Master Mix Growing Mash—After the chicks are six weeks old I they can be changed gradually from Master Mix Chick Starter to Master Mix Growing Mash. Chick grains can be hopper fed increasing the feeding space to at least twenty feet of hopper space for each 100 chicks. Green stuff should be fed once daily until the young birds are placed on the range. “Master Mix Egg Mash — Young birds should be kept on Master Mfr Growing Mash until they approach maturity and have started to lay. Change gradually to Master Mix Egg Mash at least two weeks before 'the pullets are housed. Home grains should be hopper fed.” 1 ■

Milling i -JHL -I In this new building soy beans are reduced to flakes for processing. Millen program of co-operation be- \ tween industry and agriculture for I the mutual benefit of both concern- | ed. o What Is Time To A Hog? Reply From Master Mix The following excerpt from a Master Mix circular has attracted wide attention and favorable comI raent: “What is time to a hog?" This - question is frequently asked by hog raisers to whom a feed dealer is recommending a special feed. Time may be nothing to a hog but it is dollars and cents to the Ilog feeder. If one feeder using i Master Mix Hog Feeds grows his pigs to marketable hogs in six months and another feeder using a different ration requires eight months to get the same result, the second feeder has lost money. He has fed a maintenance ration tor two months more than the first ; man; he has also run the risk for two additional months of losing his hogs through disease, accident and other mortality mishaps and he is selling his hogs at a lower price in a market already flooded with !>ork. HUMAN FOOD | ICONTIM EI) FROM 1’.M.1.’ ONI’D I diets contain far too great a proportion < f carbohydrates, both as starch and sugar, and any wholesome ingredient which reduces Hie total volume of starch is a definite dietetic advantage. Soybeans, when used l;t th" form of flour, fill this requirement perfectly, as the admixture of it with cereal flours not only reduces the total starch, but. it also renders the remaining starch much more readily 1 digestible, and at the same time. ; adds vitamins, mineral salts, and | other essential food elements.

MILK SAVED BY FEEDING CALF RATION Fine Results Had By Use Os Calf Meal; Leaving Milk To Be Sold Recent years have demonstrated the value of feeding scantlfically designed protein rations for the promotion of rapid, sturdy calf development at minimum costs. Feeding milk to a young calf is much too costly to be profitable. Master Mix Calf Meal made at McMillen Feed Mills contains almost seven times the amount of protein in milk and will develop a calf more quickly at less than half the cost of feeding the calf on whole milk. For a few cents a day Master Mix Calf Grower provides a scientifically balanced ration for your calves and allows the milk from cows for sale as usual. This method maintains income while at the same time feeding calves on an ideal ration for rapid, healty growth. One hundred pounds of Master Mix Calf Meal provides the same nutrition for a growing calf that it would get from 600 pounds of milk. Consider what 600 pounds of milk would sell for and your saving by the use of Master Mix Calf Meal is easy to see. It is usually understood that a calf will consume about 10% of its weight in milk. The same calf requires only 2%, of its weight in Master Mix Calf Meal. One pound can be mixed with five pounds of water and the resulting feed is equal to five pounds of milk. it is the aim of every good dairyman to develop cows which will produce better calves and at the same time have a high yearly yield of milk and butterfat. To help in making this possible Master Mix Calf Grower was developed as a scientific concentrate to be fed with corn and ground oats from the calf's twelfth week until it freshens. This nuxiure is 6% higher in protein than corn and oats alone and 300 pounds of it will produce 100 pounds gain in weight. As Master Mix Calf Grower contains only carefully selected choice ingredients as well as all essential minerals it will produce more rapid gains at less cost when fed as directed.

Great Results Shown By Cow Fed Locally On Master Mix 'Of interest to dairymen of Adams and adjoining sections is the interesting dairy feeding report offered by Peter B. Lehman of the Swiss Dairy at Decatur. Mr. Lehman says: “Princess Crystal Reg. No. 388.416. sired by Maherwood Crescent Reg. No. 138,004 and with Homestead Princess Primrose Reg No. 296.157 as her dam, came through with the following record under the supervision of Purdue University. Lafayette, Indiana which 1 thought you would like to receive. MILK BUTTER FAT Lbs. .% Lbs. May 26 . 252.5 4.80 12.12 June 1351.9 4.80 64.89 July 1285.7 4.61 59.27 August 1161.1 4.65 53.99 September 1045.0 5.31 55.49 October 1090.9 6.13 66.87 November 1039.0 5.96 61.92 December . 1056.4 5.62 59.37 January . 1062.0 5.88 62.45 February 915.2 5.85 53.54 March 1011.1 5.60 56.62 April . 995.6 5.80 57.74 May 24 . 782.0 5.80 45.36 TOTAL 13048-3 5.44 709.6 On August Ist, after the foregoing test we again entered here an official test and she gave 1434.8 lbs. of milk which made 66.59 lbs. of Butter Fat with a test of 4.6%. So it starts out as though she was going to beat her own record. Princess Crystal was fed through this period on Master Mix Dairy Concentrates, made at McMillon Feed Mills and ably demonstrates that they are Masters in their rat’o’is and really do llieii- wi'lt Molasses Mixer Really Turns ’Em Out \ if '* fc v-? *' 4 i I- * it This ribbon type mixer thoroughly mixes molasses with other ingredients in the preparation of dairy feed. This Master Mix machine can turn out 750 hundred pound bags per hour.

Cossettes Sliced beets, called cossettes are carried on a continuous belt and emptied into large tanks where the sugar is dissolved. Photo shows stream of cossettes being delivered into one of the tanks. BIGGER CROPS PROVE VALUE OF NEW PLAN Sugar Co. Encourages Fertilizer Use For Increase In Crop Returns In order to stimulate the use of fertilizer on plantings of sugar* beets, the Central Sugar Company erected in the winter of 1935 a: small fertilizer mixing plant. This' ' plant was small, and hardly more than an experimental plant, and was built with the thought of de- > termining the advisability of pro- > during a special sugar bee-t fertil--1 izer at a lower cost to the growers. The experiment was successful and the average application per acre 1 was increased from 194 pounds per . acre in 1934 to 258 pounds per J acre in the spring of 1935. in the spring of 1936 an additional building was added to increase’ the storage capacity of both raw materials and mixed goods 150%.’ The former mixing equipment was

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DISSOLVE OIL FROM BEANS TO GET MEAL Continuous Process Produces Clear Golden Oil For Refining Prominent among additions .and improvements made by the Central Soya Co. this year has been the construction of the only Han-sa-Muhle extraction plant ill.lthe entire country. This will augment previous equipment and will increase the facilities of the company to a point where it will be able to process mor soy beans than have ever been harvested in the state of Indiana in any single year. The beans are first weighed for production record in a continuous automatic scale and then delivered to a bin located above the steam drier. From this bin they are drawn through the drier where warm air is blown through the beans to dry them to 10-12% moisture content and to heat then! so that they may be softer for succeeding operations. While warm,'the beans are passed to corrugated cracking rolls where they are cut to moderately fine shreds or particles. An appropriate conveying system then transfers these cracked beans to the smooth roller mills which roll the particles of beans into flakes about ten to twelve thousandths of an inch thick. This completes the milling or disintegration operations and the beans are then in condition for oil extraction. Just as water is used to leach the sugar from the sugar beets, an extracting fluid is used to dissolve the oil from the soy bean flakes. To accomplish this a series of buckets are mounted on an end■'less revolving chain, the entire arrangement of which is enclosed in a tight housing or silo. The extraci' tion fluid and flakes are introduced ■ at the top of the extractor and by I gravity the extraction fluid falls ■ from one bucket of flakes to the - other to the bottom of the housing, - washing out the oil from the flakes . j in its travel1 At this point there is a mixture > ’ of oil and fluid and nearly oil-free ■ flakes. The flakes still contain ■ some extraction fluid so they are passed through a series of steam Jacketed conveyors or meal driers. By treating this meal with both live and jacketed steam the very last traces of the extraction fluid are driven off. The treated meal is dropped through a special meal gate and conveying system, humidified to the desired moisture content and cooled for grinding or packing. <>■’• ■ The problem of separating the oil from the extraction fluid is not quite as simple in that it involves more equipment. The distillation system for recovering the extraction fluid for re-use is made np of three separate still systems. The first stage removes the water,, which is unavoidably removed with the oil from the flakes, the second removes the bulk of the fluid and the third evaporator is a packed column in which the oil may be distributed in a thin film to aid in the removal of the last traces of i extraction fluid to produce the pure I crude oil. From the soybean the oil has been removed, leaving the meal. The oil. a clear golden color, is loaded into, tank cars and shipped to refiners; The high protein meal, containing much more nutritive value than the original soybean, Fs ready to be mixed into feeds. replaced with new and modern machinery which increased the production from 50 to 100 tons daily. Fertilizer mixed in this plant is sold only to those growers who have signed contracts to groW’ sugar beets and deliver them to the Central Sugar Company at Decatur. At first, only the mixing of fertilizer for sugar beets was contemplated. hut after the quality of the mixed goods had been established there came a demand for different grades for other crops At the present time, all fertilizers furnished the members of the Central Beet Growers Association are sold $3 to $8 per ton below the established retail price for fertilizer in this area With the exception of fertilizer applied on the beet crop, all mixed goods are sold on a cash basis. Fertilizer applied to the beet crop may be charged against proceeds to be received by the farmer Jrom his crop From the spring of 1935 when the plant was built, the apptiea«* tion of fertilizer per acre has increased from 194 pounds per acre to 345 pounds per acre In the spring of 1937. This increase has been reflected in greater yields . per acre and a higher average sugar couteut.