Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1869-03-06
Con.Huat.ated
BAGASSE AND SUGAR okIMMiNGS
THEIR VALUE.

cha! men 10 the feasibility of inaugural
ing manufacturing down here ; sgai'
and again our planters have been con
graduated upon the fact that the free
labor system will yield more net profile
than they conld have derived under til"
old regime. Very good but how man,
OF our sugar planters, for Instance, coui'i
you induce to adopt any new improved
process for manufacturing their staple :?
Very lew Tell them land even mel,
otherwise open to conviction that the,
throw more sugar in their bayous THAI.
European factories have material to max.
their sugars out of or certainly more
than the expenses Of running their sugar
houses, including their personal expenses
during q season will amount to, aud they
will simply laugh at you, or deny this To-
be possible.
Do you happen 10 be increduious If !
pfcoiSb v TUG SousucNU Ctotes tHc rFScuh
abolishmeut Of Old, rusty usagss- iruped
lments iI the way of pfogfess-and tht
adoption of new systems in conformity
with the march Of time We live in n
great era. Il matters little whether W,
arouse the indignation of cid togies >
with the enthusiasm OF national you'll,
nr il We tear open the old. w~elt-bea,e,
track of daily routine, who cares We
may as well go in biindfolIed for on,
share of popuiaris. or abuse. Science,
with her train of satellites, is imperiousi,
and p~assionstely dashiDg on, lsburing
with a will in the great laboratory OF
nature. Blu: a few years, and all over
this Southern land you will hear the dull
but angry sound, OF the iron beaten to =
jelly by enormous Cyclop hammers-in b-.
ing formed into plaw the Kissing
sound of the steam pipe-th the Recess, b,
degree. from the gigantic to the diminu
i've What y chaos Of production il
will be
The human race has converted the
universe into a workshop. but | am afraid
without asking leave vi the landlurd.--
WHAT 10 heavens nsme are they manu-,
Featuring there? Well, now, don't worry
they are all f'ght--tii-y are not coun
terfeitlng, or making amendments To our
national nlcer--tte Constitution. No sir Il
fi,sy are good, loyal, hard-workiog men +;
they are turning out the material Tor IA
woudroas dwelling, peculiarly construct
but after all, the most comfortable.
hao'tat'on tor all mankind they a,
nu''dlhg the structure of progress!
In visiting the European sugar fact..
ries. l was surprised to find connected
With them distilleries to distilI skimminp.
ut the sugar juice /; also the Sugar ren,ain
ing in the beet, which could not other
wise be extracted and crys.Alized to An,
advantage. ts
Having studied the process of extract
ing the remaining sacctarine from thu
raw material. in northern France and
Belgium, and on returning to this conn
try, | eIperimen,ed last SEASON with III.
'kiminings aud bay.sse and obtsined III.
most satisfactory results-sbowinp ey;
as have said above, that ON,
sugar planters are throwing more saccha
ri"r matter entirely away than Europesn
factors have to make sugar out Of.
W''h very little machinery. u distitlinp
apparatus with f.rinen,ing tubs and
'srge size straw cutter. any planter can .
.xtract the last per centun of saccha,;, Z
in eoagasse and skimminrs
'o'h Ut which, can afterwards he used 70,
erd'ng stock Of any kind. Handsome +,
Profits msy thus be realised from sub. ,
'tances heretofore wasted and throws, j
way. So much for progress 10 this par +:
'cular instance, in which one of our prr~, +.
Southern staples il interested.
g Will Not our planters TAX. .h;o ..u.a /.