Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-10-28
In TIE MAN.
NER OF MANUFACTURING SUGAR

A process of the highest importance for su
gar planters has just been put into execution
on a large scale, on Mr.. Fergus Duplantier'
Plantation (ParisL of East Baton Rouge) ant
the same process will in a short time be re
sorted to on the plantation of Mrs. Labrancht
and sons Parish of st. Charles) who frs
patronlsed, by their perseverance and encour
agements, the Improvement in question.
Here are the detailed advantages Of sale
process, which, after the general opinion o.
those planters who witnessed its operations,
cannot fail of being adopted through the whole
State of Louisiana.
During four settings, from 8 to 10 hours
each. DC hogsheads of sugar were manufac-
tured, and said sugar was superior to the
first qualities of rough sugar that are usually
presented in the market, though it was pro-
duced by canes raised in a newly cultivated
ground that had till now produced nothing but
very inferior sugar.
The bright hardness of the grain, its nice
colour, its siccity and sweeter taste must
give it in the market, a value of 81 over the
ordinary sugar.
Though said sugar made out of canes rails
ed in newly titled ground, the sugar got from
fields cultivated for many years, cannot be
compared with it, when the last mentioned
sugar is fabricated by means of the ordinary
system, which affords an evident proof of the
imperfect operations made until this day, by
the actual mode of kettles.
This apparatus being put in motion by the
betnium marice .lbain-marie) receives the
juice from the kettles, at &c aerometriek de-
grees, which prevents the strip from burning,
and enables the planter to grind a bigger guam
tity of canes.
The planter, by supplying the kettles with
strip at % degrees only, spares a vast guam
tity of wood, since, to reach 40 degrees (ncw
the height of congeIation) he frequently ex-
periences, especially as to newly titled ground,
difficulties with respect to boiling, that re-
qulre a great augmentation of combustihle,
while, by this new process, two cords of wood
have been sufficient 10 boil, in the space of
twelve hours, a quantity of slrup amounting.
after its duction, to eight or nine no. s'ieads
of sugar,
ms apparatus presents another precious |
advantage: it can operate during more than |
twelve hours without wanting any aliment
and whenever i is in need Of, it supplies it.
self with the. necessary waller by means Of
The condensation owing to the evaporation Of
he sirup, from which it follows that the boi-
Ter once provided with water, at the time
whom the first operation takes place, does not
any more from the planter during the
when grinding season besides. being thus
lllmented by distilled water, it is impossible
nat any Incrusiatton can occur, which by in.
creeping the water with cristillizatiop, mioht
ccasion breakings.
we abstain, for the moment, from giving
1rther details, and engage sugar pla rters to
ct; for themselves, a thorough KNOWLEDGE of
ne immense advantages they may derive
the aforesaid apparatus,
Mr., Ripoll, who set it up most successfullv.
i'll give about it all Information that NAV be
and let know his conditions for fhe
up of such an engine. +,
Undoubtedly the different parts Of The an.
lratus are more or less individually known.
It the principal merit consisted in making a !,
hole OF theno, by combining The same in such
as to apply them to the most impor-
nt branch of commerce in this country.
LIE principal of all its advantages land i
this only Dir. Ripoil should be eBtitled to
Datent) is 10 make, with canes raised II :
oalds altogether new, more beautiful SUGAR :
IN that obtained from old. land, when D1aa. "
by the ordinary system. Ry this =
t, new grounds, that planters did not here +
ore like on account of the bad qualities of
u products. will henceforth become. by :.
ir i~eeundiiy, a new source of wealth for =.
Sc planters who will adopt the above men Z
led process. ~
patent has therefore been solicited in :"
ali of Mr. Ripoll, and we doubt not it -
be granted 10 him, either to encourage =
again. or to indemnify him of the en5r- =
Is sacrifices which he vas obliged TO i'm h..
upon himself TO sacceed completely IN -,
valuable Improvement. -