Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-09-24

- Athu occasioned " ina insects of the genus 4
phis) proves very fatal red ants. also, COMMIT
great depredatlsns by undermining the roots
and are the more formidable as they can onI,
be removed by winds which are equal, de
. struciiye 10 the crops. Tue rats aud inonke,
have been introduced by Europeans. Wher
The plants are sufficiently mature they mr.
trimmed. cut into pieces about ward LONE. tie,
mp 10 bundles aud passed through the mill Tn,
IniCe which Is squeezed oui, runs into a yesse
called the receiver, aud Is ultimately boiled IL,
fires made with the bruised stalks. 1.-THE canq
Inice Is kept longer than - minutes il ieI men
50 that 1t Is necessary 10 convey il NJ once IL
+, the boiling house. Here 4, is bodied with some
quick lime aud The vessel in which this one
ration is performed Is called Il elqylfsr Acids
prevent cownon sugar from eryslaiigng aud
the object Of using lime, a Temper, Is To .eu.
ira lie them.
BY smOiherms the hre and allowing Inc ia ice
10 remain az rest ier a short time, tho lime aud
impurities rise 10 tue top anl form u Wis id
scum. winch adheres sufficiently long TO allow
the clarified juice 10 be drawn of aud TO be
transferred 10 the srsl boiler. Ia large egtab.
lshments there are three four large pots for
boiling, The operation consists IN skmming
Oh the roth as II rises. in adding more lime II
necessary, and an transferring the contents Of
one boiler inlo the next in advance, until the
Juice. very much concentrated, IS lodged IN he
last and smallest OF these vessels Tins not "A
calIed thr tsqihs which appears 10 be "a cor
rnptI0n OF tn terms tactic or touch. The syrup
~ boiled III II until Tie sugar coUls ia threads
uuun beng drawn out. The old practice was
with the ifaeer aud thumb, but more accu.
| rate judgment respecting the Rrainlng. may be
! found by placing drop upon plate OF glass
and obserg ng IL as il cools. Nnen sufficiently
concentrated, Il. G syrup Is conveyed nto IA cool
er O. fat wooden /, oug6) where IT IS shrred
@lth paddles The bard sugar cry'allzes
roughly, AMI partly separates from we molhs-
ses u. lh, is done more eh cluhliy by put
ting ine sugar, when cool, into hog shehdii pier
ced with holes at the bottom aud loos.y plug.
Eed. The molasses in about three o. iour
| weeks. runs OF through the plugs, (Which az
generally spongy aud made OF the stalks of
rl1nian leal, J and IL received m cIstern pla
red beneath the hogSheads. Sugar thus drain.
d, IS called mn5carGfO, rae, Of brown saEqr,
aud for every pound, at an average, requires a
2 lilol of fresh juice. SO apt, however, Is the
uce 10 ferment, that the odour OF spirit fGir0.
h0i) has been recognised Ia the gnbi1Hsed cnne
stalks. when allowed To lie 100 long. Dufoae
obtainp liquors very analogous 10 CIdcr and
Jphiie zine, by forcing the IuIce out oil the eaae
stalks. that had been cut for IS days OF more,
and making 1t ferment.
u
.nUi sufficient to separate all the mos.Ies, the
following process is adopted. generally, upon
the French and Dutch plantations. After the
syrup has become sufficiently concentrated, IL
is cast at once into concal shaped earIhen pots.
pa ced with the apex small end lowest. The
points of these pots are plugged bat as soon as
the syrup graduates, the plugs are removed
and the molasses allowed to dram of into yes
sels beneath. After this, cake Of moist pipe
II a
esy IS others, sen rI enu aoo'e' an" us
ha been inblbed by the sugar 49,. e"o"e"
rably white. IL is then removed from the
moulds, dried by the stove or sun, broken up
aad packed IN boxes Tor expectation, under the
names OF cosSoHddc, ctaged, aud Hndra sugar.
Several improvements have been introduced
with view of rendering this kind oil sugar
sweeter and heavier than 1t IS. Among them
may be mentioned that of placing layer of
very white sugar s,lue.n The cake of moist pipe
| clay and The sugar in the pols. The water from
| the clay by passing the white sugar, becomes a
pure and strong syrup, 81 that II removes little
more Than the molasses ia lis passage down
wards. The idea ofuing clay Is said to have
been suggested at Brazil, by the accidental cir
cum stance Of hen, with muddy ieet walking
over some coarse brown sugar The wofkmen
soon observed that the substance became white
| under her footsteps.
Both MuSCUFduO uhu NiStth N0bsIg
coIoring matter, contain a considerable quantI
~ OF chalk. The latter substance IL derived
| from lime, employed during the boing. under
the name of temper, and, in order 10 understand
| how it anpears IN the sugar after all the skim.
ming and publication, we must bear IN mind,
that the lime not only ncntrazes the ACIDS "a
the cane juice bM t1tites Wth some q the sugar
| ikgcIC This Is so irue, thai when lime enough
is present, quality, equal to haJ The weight of
the sugar al least, vii be taken up. But The
| compound though soluble, very soon decompo-
ses at the expense of the sugar. aud the lime, at
the same time becomes converted into chdk,
which proves TOO soluble 10 be washed Out ny
the subsequent draining.
Loaf Sagnr is the result of a separate art car
ried on IN establishments far removed from the
West Inhies. The imported clayed sugar may
be employed for the purpose solution OF II
| Il made IN mixture OF lime water and bull
Iork's blood aud then boiled al This tempera-
ture the blood coagulates, and, as II assumes
| the solid torn, efteCtually eniangl"s the impure
ties To render the ClarIlicaIOn sill more per
feet fresh charcoal. prepared from dhtnIdl sub
stances is added by some refnrrs, to the soln-
ton. After the cosgulated blood has risen to
The top, il is SKINNED off and the clarified syrup
strained through a linen cloth. The same steps
are taken to complete this operation, as have
bee en- described Tor Claying sugar, only, that III
the present case, glazed, conlcai pots are en-
ployed aud when the toGpss have been reno
| we'd and dried IL stove for about eight days,
they are wrapped up il blue paper for sale, la
the ordinary process of refining TaW sugar,
from twenty 10 thirty five per cent. OF molssseS
GENERATES. of which two thirds perhaps are form
ed by tine high heat used in concentrating the
syrup,
sugar Candy This is the purest form OF su-
gar. and would, no doubt, be IN universal use
but for the additional expense attending ifs pre-
narration. Generally speaking, the syrops
which have drained from the tOaves inthe tore
going operations, and which are too dilute fsr
( gruialtag, are slightly concentrated by boiling
aud Set by in pots to cool slowly. Strings OF
twies are fastened within the vessels 50 AS to b'
: covered over by the syrup, and upon these th'
. candy forms. II cochineal has been added, ih'