The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-07-05
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Rum Di-tiIIing-The other Side

~, r,,r,p- Having long since come 10
,bs conclusion tina, anything upon a ugar-pan'a"O
:. better than = rum GiStiNery. and As very man! -
IF ,nipion that the making and selling of hqu'd poison
: the only real .Panacea'' 70 enable the Planter u
,rsr -bs :. immense less he sustains for the want
ofs stills II has occurred 10 me that there Is another
I'D bs,,sr wav. that viii be far more satisfactory 70
all those interested in the success Of sugar plantations,
and enable the proprietors 10 give up all notions u
r,n ~ once and forever; for where u there Il MAJ"
among them that would not rather sell sugar thSh
sell rum: Al all event Il my plan has ho ''H''
merit. II Will enable aIl rum advocates TO kno" ''HdI
/ the loss rcl!Iy Is. a thing that no one has at'e"p'eN
IS We, TO put in figures. Without the slgh'eSt re.u'-
tauce. then. I lay the following observations before
the nubIic. in the hope that some one will be found 10
give them a fair trial, and publish the result for the
benefit Of all.
The Sum from the CHARTERS Is good for nothing
bur 70 be thrown sway, and never was taken III any
country n make rum. In the act Of sklmming the
conpers a certain portion of good and pure c1HeJuies
snds its way into the skinner along with the scum
and becomes (for the want of stills) a dead loss
Now in order 10 reclaim II, and make II q clear gam
il is merely necessary to follow the practice OF west
India Planters, who. when the still breaks uo"n'
never think of throwing away the s~kimmings while
the still - undergoing repair, u tHtl
casks. allowed to settle. and all of the pure cane
Juice drawn of and emptied into the grand copper
upon the battery-the value Of these DRAWINGS being
equal 10 about double that o. the raw cs~ne-juice as
i. comes from the mill. The great art or grand
secret is to prsrsnt souring by getting it settled. and
thrown into the gra nd copper as fast as possible.
cannot be supposed TO know what quantity Of skim
mings this or that plantation may make in the course
Of the day,. nor can | tell what size casks would be
required. nor yet the number of them; practice alone
must determine this. But in order to make a begin
ming, I presume that from four TO six ordinary bar
reIs would be found to answers; by the time the sixth
barrel might be full. number one might be empued
by having all the pure cane-juice drawn of. and the
thick scum or settings thrown away, the barrel care
fully washed, then rinsed out with lime-water, and
put back in its place to receive more scum. This
plan might be carried out from early dawn to about
4 O'Clock in the afternoon. 1t would be no use TO set
up skimmings unless time would allow the cask to be
filed, settled and made into sugar, in order TO save
all that possibly might be saved from morning 10
night.
Perhaps an auxiliary boiler, independent and sepa-
rate from the battery, might be constructed and used,
in order that the whole Of the cane-juice thus saved
might be made into syrup, for 1 am aware that certain
objections may be raised by managers, sugar-boilers,
and even by proprietors, who might become somewhat
of opinion that had they not taken on to this new
method of saving all, their sugars might have
been a shade lighter. Now no objection whatever
could be taken by having a separate furnace, pro
vided it can FIRST be determined that this new process
IS of sufficient Importance TO merit it. Certain loss
may have been sustained upon the plantations for
want of stills but far greater loss is no doubt sus-
tanned in consequence Of the mode in which planta-
tions upon these islands are managed. Some Of these
defects l may point out. not with the view Of offend
ing any one, but merely to show the loss and point
out a way to retrieve it in the future, and add a
value Of from five to twenty FIVE per cent. TO all plan
tation stock throughout these islands. This state
ment will, no doubt, surprise some, but l will explain
myself in another issue of the Commercial .4drer-
tiSer. ALEX. PENNIE.