Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1845-06-07
No. 9

to be purchased, as in Jamaica and costs more
thar guano, this increase Of product is n mate
rial advantage. But where deep %ploughing
and peas do rs well 40 animal manure, The adj
diiiOnal product obtained by the use Of guano
would not pay for it. An experiment 10 now
going on with It 10 my nelghbourhood lift
should make the cane ht for the mill earlier
than it usually IL, Il would on that account be
very valuable. In The mean time, would re-
commend the use Of it to a portion of my audi.
enCe whom have Till now sadly neglected; to
you, Ladies', within your realm Of fruits, flow
ers and shrubs. There as we'll an in the gar
don, when applied with Intelligence and care
it does wonders, and | beseech you not TO ne.
glect the means It affords you Of increasing
tho beauty and The cJmfOrt 6i your hone+.
When God for wise purposes doomed man to
waste bic energies in conn1afinR physical OBJ
%stacies, he placedsyon near him to chear him
in his weary task, to remind him that his ioile
had q worthy object on earth and to recall him
in his hours of Tep0se to the Consciousness Of
his moral existence. All about lis dwelling that
has the spirituality Of beauty and grace, is by
some mysterious lie connected with YOU, and
you have an interest IN it's preservation. Nurse
your flowers then, as il they were a part OF
yourselves and LIT your favor 10 plants have A
cheerful and happy look. Above all, do not
torment them into fantastic and unnatural
shapes remember that The God who made
them, gave each ofthem, as be gave each Of
you, peculiar forms of beauty which knives
and scissors cannot improve, and that nimm--
ing should be fesofted 10 exclusively with the
view to restore and preserve The natural shape
OF each speciee, az you resort TO the mystic
res OF the toilet 10 make the projections yOn
possess conceal the slight biemi9hes which
may accompany them,
Although for want Of time and Of competent
knowledge, | have confined myself to the su-
gar crop, my observations upon draining, til
ldge, animal manure and peas, may be coDsid
cred as applicable to the cultivation of cotton
also. | would not recommend any course
which would further extend that cultivation
bst II the same crops could as | believe be OBJ
tanned from half ofthe land that nov. produces
II, the other half might bee mplOyed in raising
provisions and other products such az indigo
hemp and tobacco,
On The subject Of interchange Of crops, /
have nothing to offer, aud | will now direct
your attention 10 The improvements proposed
in the manufacture Of sugar.
Not less than six new methods have been
partially tested and are now offered for our
adoption. We ought TO be thankful for every
effort Of that kind, and encourage to a season.
able extent those persons, who, In trying 10
benefit themselves, desire also 10 benefit US.
But planters cannot be expected to incur the
great expense which The adoption If most Of
those methods requires, ill they have satis-
fac DRY evidence Of their entire success. That
evidence 10 yet wanting there Is in all much
room for improvement. THE process Of nv
friend, Thomas Morgan Of Plaquemines, il
thus far considered the best, and he Is far from
} claiming uaFfnafIDp for - uH,. twaa-s
the quantity Of sugar obtained BY some Of the
innovators, is principally owing to The fact that
they reboll the molagses. This is done equal
ly we'll by others in open pans.
a new apparatus said t. embrace all that
has been found valuable in the others. IS NOW
being CONSTRUCTED at the novelty Iron works,
in New York, for Mr. Valcour Anne, of ST.
James, a gentleman distinguished for his en-.
t%erpFise, as we'll as for his practical knowledge
Of the subject. 1t may do better than the 9th
ers, but, Sir, all these new methods have the
original fault Of the usual process, their au-
thors begin wrong. They commence by ere.
ating large quantities ofcoloGriEg mater in
the juice, and then By a great variety Of
means, they endeavor 10 extract that coIOuring
matter first from the syrup and afterwards
from the sugar, and in this, by the bye, nobo-
dy has yet efeetualIy succeeded. Let me ex-
p ain my meaning.
Hyou cut in twoa sugar cane and examine
the interior part of it with a magnIfyiua glass.
you perceive the crystals Of sugar as distinct
and as white as those Of double refined sugar.
The object otthe operator should be then Ell
her to extract those crystals without altering
their colour, or, ifthat be found fmpracticable.
10 separate Them from the impurities mixed
with them, while The juice is 10 its natural
state and yet contains but Little colouring
matter. Instead Of this, the Juice is lined
while all the impurities are in it. In sonar
attng the Tendencies from the Juice and uni
ting them in large fakes, lime d~i~soIyes 2
portion Of item and ferns with them colour
ing matter which, we all know, at once disco
lours the juice, when lime is used in excess.
Afterwards heat is applied either in CHARTERS
or IN the gyqnde; but most Of the impurities
found IN the juice will decompose and burn
at a degree Of heat farbelow the boiling point,
say, at a hundred and twenty degrees Of Fab
TenheiL This is shown by the thick scales con-
tinually forming in he graHde. From thar
degree Of heat the decomposition goes on in
the ~clarideT, till the juice is drawn, and
continues in the grQHde so long as there are
Tendencies left. This decomposition great
ly increases the quantity of colouring matter,
so that, as the juice is being clarified, i Iooses
IN colour what 1t gains in purity and here, @,
let me show the relative value of The ev1gde
ana OIL ciarlherS as agents Of claTIlCatIon. In
the grande, if lis well attended TO, the sEum-
mIngs are taken up as fast as they rise. A
portion Of them is removed before they begin
to decomp0se, and the process goes on, 50 that,
before the JUICE reaches the boiling point
nearly all the feculeneies are removed and the
source Of coIouring matter is removed with
them.
CHARTERS reach the boiling point much
quicker and cannot easily he SKINNED. The
general practice is to bring them to that point
without stunning to let the Tendencies sep
arate from the juice by cooling and by rest,
and TO wash out the CHARTERS every second or
third time they are SLED. Heat and aIkalies
acting in them upon the accumulated fecu-
lencIes of one, two or three charges, dissolve
a much larger portion Of those Tendencies
than they can possibly do in the grauds the
formation Of colouriug matter continues du-
ring the time Of rest, and, accordingly. plan
ters, after repeated trials, generally agree that
juice well clarified in the graade has 4 bright
er and a lighter colour and makes better sugar
than tha blamed from CHARTERS.
But to return TO my subject, the FIRST object
Of research should be, to End means cf clari-
Tying the Juice, without creating colouring
matter. Il is said that presses, something like
those used 10 reprpss cotton here. have lately
been successfully employed in the West In
dies, instead Of r Tiers that the Juice obtain
ed IS much puTer, and that a much larger
quantity OF II Is extracted from the cane. Ifs0,
this will be a great improvement and the first
step Of the processI would recommend. From
juice thus obtained, or even from cur own,
/ have no doubt that all impurities less solu-
bic than Itself may be separated by mechaui.