True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-10-14
CHINESE SUGAR CANE TESTED.


CHINESE SUGAR CANE TESTED.
The testimony as to this new plant is
somewhat contradiclory-thoigh gener-
ally, so far in It's favor. We quote the
following:
The Charleston Courier of the 18th
inst. contains the following We are in
debted to The polteness Of Capt Roumthal,
proprietor of the well known manufactory
Of confectionery in King Street, in this
city, for the results of trial which he
has given to the Sorgho cane for the pur.
pose of testing its possibility of ehrystal-
izatlon. Capt. r. procured 800 canes
from the firm OF Thos. H. Deas, which
after being properly crushed. produced
81 gallons Of juice. This juice. after
boiling and evaporation, yielded three
GALLONS and three quarts Of syrup. He
then boiled ii to the granulating point,
but the syrup refused to granulate it
was rather inclined TO burn. The exper.
iment was made under Captain Roumil
lat's own eye, and every care was taken
that it might be successful"
A Philadelphia paper says:
We we're shown on Saturday last, some
very fine, thick, heavy molasses made
from the juice of Chinese sugar cane,
with one of Henges' mills. from twelve
stalks Of cane, grown on the ground Of
Judge Stroud, near the Grard College.
from three stalks, two gallons Of juice
were obtained, which, on boiling, pro.
duced three pints of as thick mo!asses AS
we have ever seen.'
The Cincinnati Gazette says:
We have seen molasses, nearly the
quality Of sugar house, made by Mr. Har-
ford, Of Morrow, Warren county, which
seems to prove that Ohio, can make its
own mOlasses as well as sugar. Only
thirteen stalks were chrushed, which pro.
cured oyer quart Of good syrup. Now
thirteen stalks of sugar millet can be
raised on each twelve square feet. This
would give 900 gallons to the acre.
Others have made similar experiments,
calculating the produce TO be from 400 to
500 gallons per acre. Supposing that
40 gallons are raised, at 80 cts per gallon.
This gives $l2O per acre, which will pay
more profit than any crop raised in the
State. This experiment has been made
by so many persons, that we consider the
question settled in regard to molasses.
As TO sngsr, we shall wait the result Of
experiments, but wait III confidence Of
Success"
A cores pondent of Me New York Post
sends 10 that papea sample of very good
brandy made from the syrup of the above
named plant, and says that it costs about
thirty cents per gallon to produce. and is
worth in the market from one to two dOl's
per gallon, according 10 the quality. He
suggests tha, the growth of this crop will
enable the farmers to manufacture the
spirit in the winter season, when they
have no other occupation. They can
make gallon of proof spirit for each
gallon of fermented syrup, and it will
find a ready sale at the rectiierers, who
will turn it into alcohol for camphene and
other uses. The writer adds:
The quantity Of alcohol now used for
purposes of illumination alone, to say
nothing of varnishes, chloro(orm and med.
ical extracts. is enormous, and was be-
ginning 10 have serious effect on the
price Of bread. owing to the wholesale
destruction Of cereals require d TO produce
it. Now, howver, we have found substi-
lute, which, besides supplying syrup and
alcohol, will also yield from the same
crop large amount of forage and grain
for the fatening Of stock"
The Chinese sugar cane syrup, says
another authority, has been offered in the
81 Louis market. and brought from forty.
five to fifty cents per gallon. 1t is said.
to be superior article. In New Orleans
some sold for forty.fve cents gallon.
A Louisiana correspondent Of the
Washington ln,elligencer says, the I'm
phee does not prove near as profitable
as the old sugar cane. There is much
more labor in cutting and preparing it for
the mill, as compared with the sugar
cane, it being very difficult 10 divest of
its leaves. 1t also takes more wood to
boil it. IN one experimen, in sugar cane
and the Imphee, the yield was, in the
former, three thousand pounds of sugar,
and one hundred and eighty gallons mo-
lasses per acre, while the lmphee gave at
the rate of sixty gallons Of syrup TO the
acre, and no sugar,