The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-20

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FACTORY CHEESE "a PREMIUMS.
FRUIT, WOOL GROWERS AND POLITICAL MEETINGS
IspeeiAl Correspondence of the Cleveland LEADEH.l
COLUMBUS, September 16, 1865.
There were four, competing Sorghum
manufacturers at the Fair, with their cane
crushers aDdevapOrators. Friday afternoon
was devoted to trial test in the mGnuiac-
ture of the best half barrel ofsyrup in the
shortest time The cane used was green,
and yet such perfection has been attained
in the manufacture of Sorgo syrup that
the warm from each evsporAtor was clear,
pure and golden eolored, of the consistency
of thick honey, and almost entirely free
from unpleasant cane taste and scidity.
The test samples seemed to please the
tastes of ali, and were sonearly alike that
even the committee were puzzled to decide
on the best. The award was finally given
to the syrup made by Jacobs Evapor ator,
manufactured by Messrs. j. L. Gill & Son,
Columbus. Tho Msesrs- Gill fitted mn
neat Sorgo works under cover on the Fair
ground, and placing their mill short dis
tance from the eVaporator, the juice was
conveyed from the one to the othsr in a
steady stream, whore, in a very brieftime,
it was transformed into fine syrup. Their
Mill and Eyaporstor are now extensively
used, and the coming year they will be
manufactured on still larger scale.
The Sorghum Mil and EvsporAtor e1-
hibited by Messrs. Clarke & Utter, of
Rockford, Illinois, made good syrup rapid
ly. The Evsporstor consists of three pans,
two of them movable on railway. They
are cast iron, and bear the test of use we'll.
Premiums have been awarded the Mill
and Evsporators of Clarke 81 Utter at
the Iowa and Illinois State Fairs A small
steam EvsporAter, also from Illinois, at
tsched to the engine in Power Hail. made
goou syrup and rapidly. t37's'
Those enterprising and successful pion-
eers in Sorgo manufacture, Messrs. Blymef
Bates & Day, of Mansfield, had the cele
brated Clark Sorgo Mill and Cooks KvAp-
orator in operation at the Fair, constantly
turning out syrup of superior quality. This
firm have done much to make Sorgo culti-
vation and manufacture a pleasant and
profitable part of good husbsndry through
out the West. They esrly engaged in the
manufacture of cane mills and eYsporators,
and have extended their business with the
increased growth of Sorgo from year to
yeSr, uL til their sales Of Sorgo machinery
this season will reach half million of dol
lars They have foundry in Cincinnati,
where the Clark Sorgo Machine Company
employ $50 men, and turn out forty five
Victor SOrgo Mills 8 day. During the
season some 2, 800 mills will be manufac-'
tured-double the number of last year
and the firm cannot fill sll their orders.
Their Cook Evsporstor has been more ex.
tensively used than any other, and their
sales this season have reached 1000 from
their Mansfield manufactory. Last year
1900 The principal demand is in Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and other
Western States. Quite call'for Sorgo
machinery has already sprung up in the
South since the rebellion, especially in
Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Vir
ginis; and Messrs. Blvmer, Bates & Day
have also filed orders from Connection
New Jesrey and Maryland. twill be re-
membered that during 5hermsn's grand
march to the sea the bravo boys in bIne of
ten conhscsted Sorghum nolasses,
and one of the returned veterans remarked
in our hearing that it was poor stuff COM
pared with the golden syrup he had been
tasting st the Fair The mode of manu-
fscture in Tennessee, Georgia, &c, before
the war was the most crude. Mr.. Day had
tested the utility of Cooks Evsporators in
plantation sugar making in Cuba before
the rebellion, and was about introducing
them into use down the Mississippi. They
will now come into vogue In the sugar
growing sections of the South, for Yankee
will follow the way opened by
Yankee bsyonets. r-
War prices of sugar and molasses have
stimulated the cultivation of Sorgo in all
the corn regions of the West, and most
farmers who iltivate Indian corn also
grow Sorghum or Imphee, patches sufi
cient, at least, to furnish family supplies of
syrup. Every neighborhood has lis mill
and evsporator, and the growth of the
season is cheaply and prohtably worked up.
The crop this year is splendid one, and
the tall cane stands higher than corn on
numerous farms the country through.
Sugar from Sorgo has frequently. been
made, but in small quantities and Of infe-
rior quality. Invention has been racked,
and humbug processes have been palmed
upon community so often as to place the
claims of any new one under suspicion.
But growers of sugar cane in Louisiana
were several years in experimenting before |
biting upon profitable sugsf making in |
hat State, and Sorghum cultivAtors need |
not be discouraged in their efforts to obtain |
\ merchsntsble article of sugar. Some in |
formation was diffused at the Ohio State
Fair touching this matter OF the first i'm
r-.a1
An intelligent and apparently candid and
truthful gentleman had two specimens of |
5orgo sugar on exhibition, made by Moores
lew and improved process for making su-
,sr, patented July 4th, 1866 He stated
hat extensive sugar woI ks had been erect
d 1T Bloomington, Illinois, this season, to
'perate on the Moore process, at a cost
# eight thousand dollars, with capacity to
onvert one thousand gallons of Sorge or
mphee juice into sugar per dsy-that the
1ice and syrup can, IN all Cases, be made
o grsnulAte, and good; dry sugar be made
herefrom; the gum and acid entirely re-
moved, and the sugar as free and dry as
ny other in market. The specimens ex.
ibitaA Sva-s 81 fai- quality t-l-an he aaid !
,om half ton manufactured by the Moore
rocess from Sorgo syrup sent in by farm
rs in the vicinity of Bloomington as tests.
q every instance they were pleased with
le sugar from their syrup. --sV !.
Of the cost of making sugar, over that
making molasses, the statement YVES
ade that it will not exceed one cent per
ound in factory where any considerable
mount of sugar is msde-thst every man
N make his, own chemicals, snd prepare
EN- for use, they costing nothing except I
q little lelsberIequired. The time required {
r making sugar ready for market will {
'ry from two to eight weeks according I
the quality Of the cane the mode Of j
aiming adopted, and other artificial means. g
Trup will yield from four to six pounds of g
gar to the gallon, and often more. +
AS we have said, all this is very impor- q
Dt-if tIue-for q process that will con- c
rt Scrgo and Imphes cane Juice into I
gar, cheap to the purchaser and remun- il
atiYe to the manufacturer, will prove Of q
,alculsble benefit TO the whole country. n
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