Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1911 — New Use for Sugar Beets. [ARTICLE]

New Use for Sugar Beets.

An entirely new use, and one that may in time become very important, has been discovered for sugar beets. This is the making of them into flour. This flour is now being manufactured In Considerable quantities at Suresnes, France, where an immense dryer has been built for the purpose. The first part of the process consists in chopping up the beets and drying the water out of them. They contain to start with 72 per cent, of water, nearly all of which is removed by evaporation. By this means 100 pounds of dry* material is obtained from 367 pounds of beets. This dry material contains more than 70 per cent, of sugar and therefore on being ground to a fine meal is exceedingly sweet and adapted to the making of cakes and puddings. The sugar beef flour Is estimated to contain something like 82 per cent, of pure nutriment. —Baker’s Weekly.