Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-03-12
Inn prureiAltnt IN Sugar WalAtnE.

! ne ~ " HT says. every lhdh'ei engage"
in the manufacture Of sugar is aware thai
the quality Of the yield will depend in a great
measure on the perfection of the process ioI
defeating and clarifying the JUICE. The
more completely this is effected, the pnreT
brighter, and larger will be the grain o. the
sugar, and consequently the higher wall be
its market value.
The pf,nrip,e has long been understood.
and hence the various efforts made from TN e
to tine to introduce INTO get eraI AS GER
tain potent chemical agents for purposes OF
detecation and cIarlhcat1on. Repeatr tx~
periments have been made with lime. bone
bla ck, carbonic acid and other nentralIzing
agents, and though most. if not all Of them.
present certain advantages, they have in their
turn been abandoned in favor Of NIELSEN S
great discovery of the bi-sn|phite Of linz
| The employment of this article has become
almost universal on the sugar plantations Of
Louisiana and its success in enabIin. the
! planter to produce a superlo! article Of sugar
has been established too frequently to admit
Of the slightest doubt of its valuable proper
ties. But bi-suIphite Of lime is a costly pro-
duet. and entails a heavy tariff on the sugar
planter. In endeavouring to devise some
! nlan BY which the advantages Of this agent
might be secured at a smaller expense, Col.
RgcHAEp A. STEWART, Of p~laquemine, was
led to a discovery which he thinks, and We
agree with him will revolutionize in a nea-
sure the art of sugar making, and will drive
bl-sulphite of lime out Of the market, by sub
shutting in It's stead at one-tenta the cost.
the active principle which it contains.
Col. STEWART describes the process in q
pamphlet which We have now before us. It,
consists simply in applying to cane nice
" sulphnross gas instead Of the combination
Of that substance vitn lime. By simple and
inexpensive machinery the Colonel injeets
snlphurous gas direct from the furnace into
the cane-ln'ce. He claims by this discovery
to be able to 4 ~.fecate and clarity the sarh-
charine Juice at a cost of less than three cents
a hogshead Of 7ugar; while the cost OF the
hi-sulphite is from IS cents to 81 IS per
hogshead, or a tax on the sugar planters OF
$4,000 a year. Says Col. STEWART:
This | do with an apparatus that costs me
eight dollars and a quarter OFT of the planta-
ton. 1t has capacity 10 clarity Is hog>headS
ofzst.garI n tWenty-tour hours. The apparatus
iSzas simple asHltisehsap A light jet OF
steam is the Only motive power used, and=it
is almost I'M possib1eto putt out of order. It
can be worked BY any Old woman Of ordinary
mind on the plantation. I shall be prepared
in ii few days 70 offer to the planters to use
my invention in its broadcast form. at a cost
that is less than is paid for bi-snlphite of lime
for one year. Or. TO be more explicit, If a
planters average crop is 200 hcgshea,'s 4
year, he pa ys me 5000, which is in full Tor
the use of my right for fourteen years. A
drawing and Instructions for the apparatus.
and the use of it, will be furnished the plant
er at the time OF the transfer of the right to
Use it.. and cannot tail to afford the necessary
aid to insure success. Any plantation smith
can putsupthes apparatus
If this were mere assertion on the part Of
Col. S., increduIity might pause and calf for
proof but appended toe the pamphlet are
numerous testimonials 81 a very satisfactory
character. 5HrsRT c. SroRY declares.thathe
has used the suIphurous gas, and finds tlatzss
a c|arifier it surpasses any. agent EN-
ployed-that 1t gives sugar OF a clear, Dure,
sparkling grain, free from gqm,a, and hiGtIr
crysta:'.e lsssa ,sG; uyrHEn. the manager Of
ndgeDuIH At's INFLAMMATION. L. A. Gossls, and
S. 0. N~n1soNssoffer& evidence equally as en-
phatIc as to Tie valuable qualities of the new
agent. Finally, that veteran in sugar-making.
whose knowledge and Judgment are equalIed
by few and exceeded by none-S. A. CHAM
roN1ER-volrnteers his tnII and unqualified
ahestation ef the process, and remarks that
he has never beheld a finer grained sugar on
the New Orleans Ievee than that produced
by the sulphurous gas. and that If ne were d
planter he would undoubtedly employ the
process: as the most simple and most econo-
rnical.
We presume that With such proofs of the
excellence of his invention, Col. SrEwARr's
patent will supersede all other methods for
the publication of the great staple Of Louisi-
ana, We take pleasure in assisting in max
ing it generally known, as all improvements
in the manufacture Of sugar tend to cheaper
this indispensable article, and consequently
to increase the consumption.
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PALCDAL MlAsM.-The chemists have long
been laboring to detect this subtle poison to
determine what it is. Doct. AVER. of Low
ell. has at length succeeded. He finds it to
be an ETHEREAL emulation Of vegetable decay,
which is evolved only in the presence and BY
the assistance OF water. Its ABSORPTION thr0>