Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-01-23
The Victor Sugar Mill and Cooks
EVapOfator for Sirup or Sugar.

| Sulto d oouSdIlou was uouIcoto1
in our city on Monday, occasioned
by the introduction and practical de
monstration Of the process for making
sugar and sirup with the above ap
paratus.
Mr.. Norton, of the firm of Blymyer
Norton & Co., manufacturers Of farm
machinery at Cincinnati, and Mr.
Clough, editor of the "Sorgo Journal
and Farm Machinist," Of the same
city, were in charge of the mill and
evaporator alluded to, and attended
to the working of the same.
There was an ample quantity Of
sugar-cane provided to test the power
and capacity of the mill and the re-
suit proved highly satisfactory. The
cane as fast as applied to the rollers,
was caught up and crushed so eAectu-
ally, chat perpetual stream of juice
was kept running, and the residuum
elected in the form Of bagasse, was
quite as dry as that thrown out by
the steam mill process. The mill
exhibited is No. Sis vertical and
is one of the smallest sizes manufac-
tured. 1t was worked successfully,
first by hand, then by one and after
wards two-horse power,-the said
power being applied to beam or
sweep attached to the top Of the
mill.
After grinding fifty pounds of the
cane, the bagasse from this was
taken and weighed, aud The weight
thereof found to be only sixteen
pounds, showing yield in cane
juice of si1ty-eight per cent.
When nearly a barrel of fbe
juice was Obtained, preparations were
made to convert it by means Of the
evaporation, into sirup and sugar.
A fire was soon raised in the fur
mace and the juice, properly lined,
was conveyed into large tub placed
at one end and above the boiling pan
or evaporation. The tub was sup
piled with wooden fawcet, through
which was permitted to flow into the
evapora' or continuous stream o. the
juice, graduated SO as to meet the
supply required.
The boiling and evaporation went
briskly on,-the juice passing from
one 10 the other of the various divis-
ions in the pan, until, thoroughly
boiled and defeated, it reached the
other end of the machine, when it
was let off by an opening into
bucket below, to be afterwards
transferred to another receptacle for
greater exposure of surface with a
view to granulation.
These interesting series of opera
tons were witnessed by hundreds OF
our fellow citizens from the town
and country,-many of them old
and experienced sugar planters and
sugar makers, who expressed them
selves as highly pleased aud satisfied
with what they saw, and gave it as
their judgment that both the mill
and the evapo ator were exactly the
things suited to the economical re-
qu.rements of the many who are
turning their attention to the culture
and manufacture of sugar.
A mill and evapora;or Of the sizes
may be had for three
hundred dolla,s. They are calcu
lated to take off a crop of from
twenty to twenty-five acres in about
six weeks time They can be re-
moved with ease from one place to
another and they require the labor
Of only two or three pei and
horse or mule.
with such and so many advan-
tages to recommend them we should
not be surprised to see these desira-
Bile labor-saving machines become
indispensable appendages to many