Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1920 — Making Starch From Potatoes. [ARTICLE]

Making Starch From Potatoes.

The manufacture of starch from potatoes is not a complicated process, the drying, however, being somewhat painstaking. The tubers are first cleaned, then ground. This sets the granules of starch free. The ground mass Is then washed with cold water and the starch settles at the bottom. This is collected Into vats, spread out on shelves and artificially heated. It dries Into lumps and Is then the commercial starch. The residue from thia manufacture Is like alcohol mash, a valuable cattle food. It may.ajso be used as fertilizer. With characteristic wastefulness we in this country have thrown It away.