Manufacture Or Starch

The manufacture of wheatnnd potnloe starch has been prósecuted in New England witli great success for many years. The extensión of its consnmption, however, has rapidly increased witliin the last five or six years, both in home consumption nnd more purticularly for f'ureigu export. The potatoe branch of il, to ony extent, dates but a few years back. When it was first offered in market, the cotton manufacturers were fearful in commeiicing using it, tliat the market would not be well supphed, and henee it would prove too costly. It, however, was preferred to the article from wheat, it being void of the gummy substance, wliich is better for cottons. In Vermont, New-Hampshire and Maine, there are 180 estabüshments for its manufacture and 30 new ones go into operution this fall, as soon as the potatoes are dug. This gives a total of 160 starch faetones. The average quantity made is about 70 lons at each factory - giving a total of 22,400,000 Ibs. There is aduty on starch mported into England. The article from potntoe goes in free, under the Iiend of potrttoe meal. Il is shipped in barrels similar to flournnd is novv being generally inlrodueed into the cotton and all other manufactories in Great Brita'ti where the starch is used. Ofcourse ils consumption for this purpose will be followed by other manuTacluring nations. It is not only used in finishing goods, but is daily increasing ns nn ariicle of food in this country. It is nicely done up in boxesand can be found at the Drug stores under the label of Arrow Root, which is so universa'.ly used for excellent puddings. Confectioners know well ïow to use it and get rid of five hundred ons a year in this country. It has driven the white lead from their candies, and s much cheaper than sugar in making oys. Several other trades now find it useful in their compositions, which it is lerhaps useless to mention, as people, when they suppose they are enjoying a sjreat luxury, might find out they are only enting potaloe starch. Moodv Chamberlin Esq., carae to reside here alout two years since, from Vermont. He carried on the business extensively there, and is still interested in two establishments, manageJ by bis brothers, somewhere near Winsor, Vl. He has erected a mammoth building here, to carry on the business on a more extensive scale than at any similar factory at tlie enst. This is the only one west of ihe Hudson riven The factory is 214 feet long nnd 40 wide, including nn L. The main building is 134 feet long - 14 of whicf are used for an engine room, and is2!stories high. The lower part has 64 tubs, holding about 600 gallons cach, giving a total of 38,400 gallons. The L part is 80 fee; long by 40, of brick, one and a half storie-) high, for a potatoe bin. Loaded eams drive up a platform into the secotid story and followinga circle, 13 teams can unload at a time, through trap doors over the bin, which is calculaied to hold 40,000 bushels. One hundred and lliirty londs have been received in a day, niakinga total of 4000 bushels. Ir the second story of the principal building is an oven 100 feet long by 13 wide, for drying the sfarch; or rather I should sny, an oven of 200 feet by 9, ns there is a división in the centre, with doors some ten feet apart. In the oven there are seitsofpans, one above the other, which can be turned at pleasurë. It is heated from the steam Works, and conductors of heat are carried in tin pipes all over 'ihe building. The whole machinery is a specimen of sd much ingenuity that I cnnnot describe it ; you must visit it - t is worth the journey. The proprietor, who is a gentleman much bt-loved here, kindly allows slrangers to go throügh the establishment, and does hot confine it to the sign oí "no lulmission" as at similar works in New England. The potatoes are shoveled from ihe bin into a hopper, where ihere is water constarilly running into it, and there they are as Ihoroughly washed by machinery as n cook Would do it for yoUr dinner.- Then, by ihe action of the machinery, they are separated from thn dlrt, stones and sticksand pass on to two cylinder gratéis at the rale of 100 bushels an hour. From the graters, by the action of machinery, they go to the seive, that sepárales the starch from the potatoe. 'I'he pulp then passes into four large cysterns, and then again machinery pumps it into the 64 large tubs or cysterns, before alluded to. for settling. Then ihe water is drawn off nnd the .starch by a forcing pump is carried inta the second story, and when settled put into the oven 1 have before spoken of, vfhich iscalculated to take a day's work, being, the starch from 1000 bushels or60,O00 Ibs of potatoes. The sinrch is packed in casks and shipped east. Thp cost of ihe fnctory is $12,000. Considerable starch was made lnst season, but the rotting of so-me 30,000 bushels lust fall cunailed the qunritily anticipated. This large quantity of the raw material was thrown away. Jt served to feed mnny cattle iind hogs of the neighbo.rh.ood fur some months. The pulp remaining as worthless, is tmed in fattening hogs, wliich the proprietor has in a yard adjoining. The f'acfory prire for potutocs is 10 ets. a bushel. Mr. C. has ooritiactfd irhh various farmers to the airmunt of 400 acres. The average number of bushels rai-=ed lost year ou an acre was 275. Allowing the same thisjear, it will aoisunt to over 100,000 bushels- but this is not half the quantity wanted. Farmers were unwilling to contract, learing the rot. Present indications are good ior the erop. - All varietiesare used - e?en the Rohan. It takes the fall and winter to use np the potatoes, then wheat and corn are to be used for the snme purpote. The quantity made frorn the pot&toa per year will not be far from 1,000,000 Ibs or 500 tons. [tsells for $5 a hundred in New York.