Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-06-04
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W.niog interesting and instructive article to the
aontben Cultivator By the by, every farmer should
Ike that journal and study well Its contents IL VIII
End TO contain thousands of dollars worth OF val
Dsbe information for one dollar year. Address d.
redmond Augusta, Georgia
But read the following:
Tur MANUFACTURE SoRGHo OR CONFEDERATE
oaTp-My directions for farmers and planters
Pho have not cannot and would not get the elaborate
nsratus of sugarhouse but there are essential hx-
- &C. which must be had, to wit mill, boilers,
haing dipper of wood of five gallon capacity, with
org handle, common diprer, and perforated ladies or
The M1IL-Get one mill for fifty acres, and two for
hundred acres or more the size Is inches in dame-
TER and "a long, for the cylinders. Jhey should be cast
iron the foundries make them to order
TIaE BoILERs.-They should be proportoned IN size
and number to the size of the crop say one Tor twenty
res two CT three for fifty acTes and I'VE or Six Tor one
En1dred acres more or less. AS many as five or six
can be put in one battery and operated by one furnace
mining under ALL ne capacity Of the boilers be
,rpatlg increased by fastening a wooden rim eight
ten inches high around their tops. The brick work of
the furnace should not reach higher the inside than
Midway of the boilers otherwise the syrup will be burnt
BY the fire.
The should not be cut until ripe, which may be
zrown by the seed becoming of purplish black, and
The stalks sreaked with red yellowish ground. 1t
is we'll to know and recoect that the canes !et stand
a. tie land where they grow, with all their leaves
or fodder them will keep good until the crop is nan
uactured, if you will barely cut of all the ripe seed
you pull the fodder the will dry up, it being the
mouth and lungs of the plants.
The GATHERING THE CANEs.-Pul the fodder
IS you 90 fodder each day you grind your
O. the alks close to the ground with sharp hoes and
hail them to the mill with the seed Oh, with a small
cop, but cut seed eff in the field if large one dry the
rlgices in the sun one day ard house The seed will
cqIal exceed the land, and containing
BY chemical analysis &c per cent of starch is about
two thirds the value of corn or rye for feeding stock
h0rTescO 7erens, for making whiskey, and will COM
mani one dollar per bushel in the ma ,ket.
mice messed by the mill should throuph
cloths fastened the receiving tubs to clear it OF all
trash.
To CLARITY THE JUICE,-Put the juice in the
lrgest boiler nearly filing it, and start gentle fire
Under it, aud put the juice simmerng-not boiling
Gr keep it for about thirty minutes, until clarified.
bis is to be elected By administering some alkali in
solution.
The best akai for this purpose the super carbonate
# soda. Put one heaping teaspoOnful in pint Of
dissolve it, ard pour it into the boiler OF smmering
1,ca stir it up, and violent eervescence takes place.
rising four inches high and finally settling in thick
crgenish all the surface Of the juice Skim
this cf and repeat the process every few minutes for
about thirty minutes, less bat stop it
az but not before, all efervescence ceases.
The process will neu'ralze the sulphuric and phospho
rc acids which abound in the Chinese sugar cane juice
a the super carb of soda is the pures and best aka
Tor this purpose sodium, the base OF the peroxyd is
lighter than water. The pressure of the mill forces out
with the juice great deal of green fec1ous matter,
which the alkaI takes hold of by the attraction Of is
d, and brings to the surface as scum. These con
skimmings will give you clear juice, capa
be Of making clear thick aCidless syrup. This use
Of soda | discovered in 85T by experimenting and
pereuce has fully confirmed its superiority over all
other akaes.
The Louisiana and West Indian sugar planters use
lime TO purify the Juice. 1t will peutrazs the acids
but | doubt its purifying agency. The lime will read
IL unite with aud neuraze the phosphoric and suphu
rc acids but not compounds, the sui phate OF lime
or plaster OF Paris being one too heavy to alleviate the
green woody matter to the surface? l think so, and
for this reason unless you wish to eat plaster of Paris
mechanical solution IN your syrup do not use lime IN
your cane juice.
I fortified in these views, against the use OF lime
clarity and purify syrup, by Dr. Robert Battery,
of the abest practical agricultural chemists In Georgia
He says deliberatey-"Lime answers useful purpose
Tar syrup concerned save to neutraIze the free
asd which exists naturally the cane Lime darkens
the color and my taste, detTacs from the grateful
flavor of the syrup regret that DR.. Battey did not
20 farther aud give the reason why lime does not car
iy have aIteady suggested the specific gravity, as
base; as being too heavy, as the reason.
Ii da cannot be had, have ready strong I've from
green hickory ashes This alkaline solution the next
best to that of soda, and apply it in the same way.
After the Juice is both neutralize1 of its free acids
ard purified OF its fecala which may be seen and known
by tie cessation OF eerVescelce and the transparency
OF the juice, then boil down to the syrup point.
Ia the absence of intruments, which cannot now be
had be sure you boil enough. 1t is safer to by
boiling too much than not enough. AS q general
guide You have to 60 by eye sight, and as but few IN
The South paid any attention to 1t heretofore,
will give certain general rules which should be OBJ
served
l. Boil down until the syrup is about one-f!th OF
the original quantity Of juice for it Is true that five
gallons of juice will average one gallon OF syrup.
2. Boil down until the syrup, being reduced to about
Oneith Of lis original quantity will hang in flakes on
the rim OF the dpper you pour it out ard suspend
il the air.
3 Boil down until ali water is expelled. This may
be seen and known when the syrup, being reduced tc
about one filth its original juice throws up jets some
six inches high this latter is the water escaping a.
steam continue to boil until these jets cease tbeI
strike of your syrup into tubs and when cool barre
it.
The BARRELs.-PGt up your syrup in cypress bar
res white OAK. barrels will not hold syrup. Severa
large planters put up their syrup III poplar roughs-
These will hold the syrup but the oxygen of the atmos
phere will certainly it has done, acldIy It, as II tAu
has so much surface to act on.
In conclusion, the Chinese sugar miet is an indus
trial plant of great utility to the South in these on
TINES OF trial Blockade ana war. It's fodder is equa
to that of corn its seed equal to twohrds OF corr
and lis syrup nearly equal to that of sugar house nc
asses yielding many gallons of syrup per acre as tn
land can pecks of corn.
Reward GaIlantry.
We learn that the badge of the brave has been a
. Iottcd 10 Sergeant LeOnidas NOrfeet Keith of tn
Raleigh Rifles, and to Sergeant Uras Pool OF the Ga
City Guards for conspicuous gaaDtry in the late ba
tie of Charlottesville Sergeant Pool WIS killed
the cbaEge on the enemy's works, and his bedge vii
therein. be delivered to his family