The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-09-26
CORN STALK AUG Az.
New Patent Process Fer MaklaE Su.
gar EFU0 Corn Rsolks.

New Patent Process Fer Making Su
gar FFU0 Corn Nsalks.
: Washington Special TO Chicago Tribun".l
/ WARRINGTON, d. C., September l7.-rh,
| Republican Newspaper Company OF Wash
| ington will issue Tomorrow q volume con
tanning an sccount of the recent remaI ka
BILE discovery BY which sugar can be made
from Indian corn aud sorghum at slig hi
expense. This work Is n volume Of lOt
pages, continuing a careful history of corn
and rghum a. sugar plants, with q de.
! scripiion "i machinery aud process Of man.
ufacturing. The discovery Tn ables thef ,rmer
u undertake the manufacture of sugar from
his own cornstalks without the vast expen.
diture Necessary in The production of sugar
from sugar-cane. The inventor, + L. Sew
art, a chemist Of Pennsylvania, will OF
course derive his profit from the use Of the
chemical combinations necessary to the
capitalization process. What these chem
icals are aud the methods in which they
operate are Of course the secret, but the
profess is made so simple that any farmer
can apply 1t. Mr.. Stewart, the inventor Of
the process, says the subject itself has a
claim upon the attention Of the American
people Of no ordinary kind. The effect of
practical adoption of these truths will be
to
REvoLUTIoNIZE SUGAR PRODUCTION
in this country, 10 enhance almost beyond
estimate the va'ue of indi-n corn and
sorghum, TO carr The line OF available
sugar producing territcry from the Gulf
Coast 10 the foItieth parallel, To save the
country 500 O,G00,O eco. now annually ex
ranHat f,.r t.r ard IN hv
the rise a new and perman. mt industry
in the solution OF a much vex.d question
by giving renumerative labor on corn-lands
OF the West To a great nun, -r of the un-
employed. The alleged i.,n iIy IN all i'm
portant particulars of The crude -accharine
Juices, 10 which the au h as we'll a.
Others, once gave oreisne-, has proved TO
be an error. Whateyer L. valuable in the
new process Of making sugar IRON sorghum
and maize il the direct result Of The re-
movaI of this old stumbling block. The
following is
BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF THE PROCESS.
1t is this proc,s :. which Prof. Collier,
chemist Of tine Agricultural Depstment,
has recently put in successful operation ON
. small scale.
First, heat the freshly-expressed juice OF
the cane, sorg ham, or maize in a copper or
vessel 10 temperature, as
shown by a thermometer suspended, 80 that
the mfrcury bulb is immersed in the juice
TO $50 degrees Fahrenheit, equal to So de-
grees Cenrigrsde.
Second, after the juice has been heated to
1S5 degrees Fahrenheit, add and stir into il
one fluid ounce of cream of lime to each
gallon of juice, or five 20 seven pounds
pinls) to each hundred gallons of Juice.
Third, after adding and stirring in the
cream of lime, heat the juice rapidly to the
boiling point.
Fourth, when it begins to boil. shut off
the heat or remove the vessel cOnta ning the
juice from the fire, and, 70 soon as the sedi
ment begins TO settle, draw off With a 81
phon the liquid from the top until at last
Of the whole quantity of juice
has been thus removed, leaving a thick,
muddy sediment at the bottom.
Fifth, sweep out with broom this mud
dy sediment into a bag, filter, and add the
liirat- as it passes through the filter to the
clear liquid siphoned of.
Sixth, to tie clear liquid thus obtained
in sections fourth and fifth, which should
be allowed TO cool TO a temperature OF $50
degrees Fahrenhtit equal to &c degrees
and not lower; there is now ad-
ied of Solution Il one fuid ounce TO each
gallon Of juice or from five to seven
pints each 100 gallons OF juice. At
least enough ii Solution Il is
to be added TO completely neutralize the
lime in the juice, and to determine this
point slip OF blue litmus paper is dipped
into the solution, when, if enough of Solu-
tion Il has been added, the blue color will
be changed TO red. (Solu,ion b is one of
The inventors chemical preparations.)
Seventh, evaporate rapidly, skimmIng
from time TO time any scum which appears
upon the surface, and adding Solution b in
small quantities il the boiling juice will
not turn the blue litmus paper red.
Eighth, when the thermometer in the
boiling juice indicates temperature Of 30
equal 10 ll2 ceatigrade) tie syrup should
be Withdrawn from the fire, and it should
De kept TO crystalline in room of about so
legrees Fahrenheit, equal to - cenlgrade.
To facilitate crystailization, a few grains Of
,ranulat.d sugar may be added to the cool
ng syrup when it has reached Ie tempera-
ure of 100 degrees Fahrenheit equal to 50
,entigrade)