The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-10-24
From the Cincinnati Gazette


On our farm in Warren county, we plant
ed an acre of sugar cane the last week in
May. 1t grew finely, tall and plump. We
did not bother ourselves at all about the
manufacturing process" but left that to
take care of itself. Men who seek "Agri-
cultural" notoriety, and who are not smart
generally, arc the only sort of s'folk'' who
ever do bother all the world about useless
experiments. tx Gov. Hammond could not
60 to work like sensible fellow, and make
the molasses; but, for the sake of "experi-
ment," must set to and make half dozen
bad articles of the stuff, all for fame. Why
didn't he wait until the stalks were fully
ripe, well Drowned in appearance at the top;
full Of glorious, we'll matured juice, and
then, without any parade, he mig hit have
made genuine molasses, pure golden in color,
and sweet as nectar in taste.
We let the stalks become ripe, seed we'll
matured and brown ripe, for the better ma
tured and ripened the stalks all the better
even frost or two thrown in will make the
juice the sweeter and the more of it. We
then cut them; cut the tops and stripped the
blades olive then ground them in a COM
mon cider mill, placing the grinding appara-
| tus as near together as possible. Running
through couple of times, took out all the
juice--a full pint to the stalk On an average.
We then strained the juice cleverly, placed
it in kettles, and commenced the boiling OPP
Grafton. We put into each thirty gallons,
on beginning to boil, tablespoonful, of Of
fcinal lime water, (lime and water mixed
will do,) adding the same occasionally, and
skimming of the green scum whenever it
arosa. About four tablespoonfuls Of lime
water to the thirty gallons is sufficient,
though it is better too much than not enough.
Going on in this way for eight or ten hours,
we had pure, beautiful, and finely tasted
moasses.
1t is no more difficult to make syrup from
| the sugar cane than to make it from the
maple tree-the one being just as simple as
| the other. Two or three strainlngs, proper
attention to skimming, ,oeH boiling, the
proper addition of lime water to neutralize
the acid, and we have Just as good molasses,
better, than what We now pay one dollar n
gallon for.
| Ignorance and Bliss in California.
1t gives one new sense of the magnitude
of our country to find one side of it ecipsed
in mercantile disaster, while the other basks
in the beams of prosperity. Here, the strin-
gency in the money market has been some
thing appalling even to ''the oldest inhabt-
ants" But in California, whittier our sad
news had not reached at the latest dates, the
word was, ''Supply ahead of the demand"
''Loans negotiated at Ia and - per
cent ''First class business paper discount
cd at l-2 per cent. without dltficuly.' In
! happy ignorance of the state of things on
the Atlantic coast. the men of California
are not only looking forward to an easy
winter, but they have come forward and no.
bly, decided to pay the State debt of 81 ,000,-
! 600, which the Supreme Court had decided
to be illegal. This is most honorable step
and we hope that the impending knowledge
of our disasters will impair neither the deter
mnation nor the means of those who have
taken it.-Bosion Journal.