The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-08-21
How -suaAn Is ruREFEp.

Row SUGAR IS PURIFIED.
If there. still. are people who prefer
! dark broom sugar TO. white as being
'ssweeter, 2, and richer" !" we commend
to tileir attention to the following ex-
tract from letter to the New York
/ Daily Graphic, describing the condi-
tion III which sugar arrives from the
1 South, and the processes winch are
+ found necessary to rid it of extrane-
Gus dirt.
First the sugar in filthy black bags.
/ hogsheads covered with mud, and
1 boxes smeared over with bilge water
and filth, was landed at the Williams
1 buFgh ldockss W here you see those i'm
! mense sugar-houses. Then steYedores
garry IT back to a big copper vat filled
! with hot water, broke open the boxes,
cut open the bags and knocked in the
i Iheads. OF the hogehead, and let it all,
dirt, mud, sticks, niggersY shoes, old
! hats, pipes, bones, undissolved news
4 papers, and sleeveless shirts-yes, let it
all slide INTO the vat together. i5s
r WhatI all this dirt :? 4a.lo na
/ Yes, and more too They place the
filthy old hogshead, soiled bags and
dirty boxes into a steam vat. steam
and wash off the dirt and sugar, and
i then pat that in too. Then the greasy
old Dutchman stirred it up, expecto-
rating the tobacco juice here andithere,
and scraping his Williamsburgh mad
into. they future frosdug of our wed
ding cake. aagI5 eh4si 71l4 x9HaII
What.next 1ua8 saceas9
Wells the hogshead slaves, after the
sugar and dirt are worked, of, are sent
! L., l. aud ffl0 hnnchnadp Oe
/ sugariand dirt per day are pumped, in
! LIQUID form, into the fifth story to be
1cleansed and purified. *34*6 : First,
,the dirty liquor is pumped into one
| thousand gallon ealdrons,W with steam
pipe in the bottom Then blue litmus
paper 6papeT isoake rin eblue cabbage
juiec) is dipped into it to see if tits
souF.li5If it. is souf;fhe blue paper is
! chm geda atogreds Then they throw in
! "a pail of hme.fI This kills the acid, or
tho ncid leaYes the sngar to- attack the
iline;i when like Kilkenny cats, they
are both eaten 1rp9 If you pour acid
into soft soap, the ialkali Can other form
of lnne) will leave the grease to feed
upon the acid.AI 4C1 p zsl 9u 5Eai r
5What next 2 ed iiaidU .5Ius.gI5ix
Then the half-naked men, who work
OhCA ll1S A4Ob
ions of bullock's blood, fresh from the
/ slaug in each51 o gallons
Iof melted sugar. The WhIte}of eggs
would he BETTER Abut eggs cost too
much, while buIlocks' blood, which
is almostas full of albumen, only costs
eleven cents per gallon. This blood
ss'settless the sugar, as an egg "settles"
your coffee :thatis, the albumen seiZes
hold of every particle of dirt and re-
tains it.. Then they raise the temper
atupe to- lS0idegrees, the blood, lime,
dirt, sticks, ETC., feat to the surface,
while the syrup, yellow and quite
transparent, is drawn off through
strainers from the bottom, leaving the
scum on top.a, This scum and dirt are
rinsed in clean water, the sweet part
saved to wet up q fresh LOT, of sugar,
and the dirt carried off as a fertilizer.
They take a ton of rich manure out
-iof the sugar house every day.
How is the syrup strained? lal
Through bags-long cloth bags,
having four or five thicknesses of
cloth in them. They catch all the
heavy dirt, little stones, sand, &C.,
and the syrup leaves them franspa-
rent, only slightly tinged with yellow.
These bags take out about four per
cent. Of dirt-real black, mucky dirt,
the same as you see in. the Streets
TheE syrup is now SO per cent. pure
sugar, whereas it was 80 per cent. five
hours ago. There remains seven per
cent. coloring. foreign salts and gases
yet to be removed.
How are these gases and salts re-
moved?
This is done by fltering the yellow
syrup through bone black and animal
charcoal (bones burned black and
ground up). Large iron tanks, looking
like upright steam boilers, are filed
with 10000 pounds of bone black EACH
Through this the syrup is. made to
trickle. I As ii comes out at the bot /
tom tits pure and transparent as rock
crystal 2As goblet. OF it looks like
spring water. 80 11b'' 10 -i2ss ESQ
''Is it perfectly pure now ?" asked
the chemist.
Q Yes. sir, as near as possible. It is
9915 per cent pure sugar. You might
podr five gallons of Kerosene and
Small pox patient cut into sausage
meat, into that first tank, and I tell
you, Perkins, that / wouldn't have the
slightest objectieth to- drinking the
syrup five hours afterwards. 1t is
perfectly clean and pure. @'aos