Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1862-09-03

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ing article, made public years ago i'll the
Tennessee Sia!e -lyricnitWolist, and since
t,rgottc.l Ii is at all events an interest
Ing statement, and may he Of some ser
wee in the present dcarth oi 'lao!asscs:
AruEAs: Nov. %, lSIt.
GenAemcu-Bclicving That the lrann-
f.cluru Of corr-staik Su.a; ana lno';isscs
is forthwith, susceptible Of oc:lg made i
matter Of the greatest Importance. j: is
deemed cypcdicnt To enter iato details
That perhaps will be considered unneceS-
sarliy minute b. some who are rot yet
appriscd Of It's great value. During the
last season, | made rather over 100 gal
lons-eIuivalcnt to Il logSllead Of sngar.
This quantity could have been extended
to eight or ten barrels: if Il sufficient sup.
ply " stalks Lad been provided; for. by
planting the cora at various times. the
uo!asscs sc;,~,l can lie prolonged from
July 10 October. Eoar or five other
mills were i'll operation in this region drI-
riug the past summer, tit Which Il con>id
erabie quantity was made. Now what
has been accomplished hy Ii few iidivid,r-
ais can be done by every farmer in The
State: and il this should prove the case,
it is evident that no trivial revolutions in
its commercial transactions would be the
result. A>surcGiy it is aS absurd for a
farmer to purchase sugar and molasses.
as it would bc to import hiS soft soap.
candles, or any other article of ordinary
domestic production. The mill should
be made with three rollers, at least 20
inches in diameter, and rs inches long, i
inches above the cogs, Qhe c''gs inches
wide) aud is inches below The cogs: the
uecks ought to be about 3 inches long
and inches in diameter, with It smooth
iron band littci on TO prevent theirwcar-
ing. The stem of the middle roller
should be II or Is inches il, diameter,
and or & feet long; the neck to be re.
ccivrd i'll corresponding hole in trans.
verse beam, resting on two posts about
25 feet aSunder This arrangements will
cause the mill to rim more equally than
if there Was no support above. There
should also be some contrivance of keys
and wedges, with which TO adjust the out
side to the middle roller This, however,
must be lcft to the ingenuity Of the
builder Of the mill, us it cannot be made
ineligible on paper. For the sake of
convenience. it may be proper to assign
10 the corn stalk two stages in its growth,
lis the most suitable for making nl"Iasscs
and sugar, to wit: lst. When just in
roasting ears I'd. When it has passed
uat Of. roasting car stage: and become too
hard for cooking, and thence to the com
mclccn,cnt OF fodder pulling. ';'he sy-
rap made from tie stalks during the first
or roa,tlrge.r stag, if boiled moderate.
ly thick, will very much resemble honey.
both in appearance and taste. In the
second stage, which | consider, OF the
whole, the proper one Or when the corn
has become too hard for cooking, the sy.
rup will more nearl j resemble that made
from the sugar-canc, and is the age of
stalk at which the syrup is most disposed
to granaIate. As you approach fodder
pulling time, the lnnIasSes will become
darker, and not SO agreeable to the taste.
In the first, or roasting-car stage, it re.
quircs ten gallons OF Juice to make ope
OF syrup. In the sccond, Or two weeks
later, s gallons will Go the same. Cnc
hundred moderately large stalks, will
make one gallon o!' syrup, Boiled TO the
point OF granu';tii"n; that is. when, on
taking Il small porti"i. (as warm rs il
can be horne) hetwccn the thumb md
fore finger, it can be drawn into thread
an inch or an inch AMI Il half long.
One gallon of such syrup is cquivalen,
to ten pounds of brown sugar, for any of
the purposes for which that article is com.
monty used. Stalks from which th. cars
lave been pulled III the embryo state,
will afford one tourt more syrup than all
those on which the cars have been per.
mitted to arrive at their full growth.
Small stalks will yield about the same
quantity OF juice us large ones; that is,
the product Of given weight of either
will be about the same. Large stalks,
however, are preferable to small ones, as
it requires nearly as much time to strip
and prepare for the mill, the latter, as The
former. 1t is satisfactorily asccr,ainco
that, if properly made, and placed in
shallow vessels, and inamoderalcIy warm
situation, the syrup will granulatc, if Il
sufficient time be allowed ii for that pulr
pose. My apparatus for boiling, consists
of u large iron kettle, also enc of copper,
made from the lower part of :, second
hand-siiil, the nozzle being removed, aud
the aperture closed by 4 piece Of copper
rivited on it; an iron band, nearly one