The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-12-19
SOUTHERN FARM AND HOME.
Cornsialk Sugar--IIOw to Make II.

Washington issue volume containing
an account of the recent remarkable dis
coyery by which sugar can be made from
Indian corn and sorghum at slight ex'
pcnse. The work IL volume of one
hundred pages, containing a careful his
tory OF corn and sorghum ~ sugar
] mts, with descrip tiOn OF machinery
and process OF manufacturing. The dis
cOvery enables the farmer to undertake
the manufacture Of sugar from his own
cornstalks without the vast expenditure
necessary in the production OF sugar
lr m sugarcane. The inventor, l., f,
Stuart, a chemist OF Pennsylvania, will
Of course derive his profit from the Use
OF the chemical combinations necessary
TO the equalization process. what
these chemicals are and the methods by
which they operate are OF course the
secret, but the process is made 20 simple
that any farmer can apply it. Mr., Stew
art the inventor of the process, says the
subject Itself has a claim upon the at
tenti0n OF the American people Of no
ordinary kind. The effect OF the pracN
| ticaI adoption OF thee truths will be to
revoIutioniZ, sugar production in this
country, TO enhance almost beyond estl-
mate the val.e OF Indian corn and sor
ghum, to carry the line OF available
sugar producing territory from the Gulf
Coast 70 the IOrtieth parallel to save the
country 500 GOO. OOO now annually ok
pended for foreign sugar, and TO assist by
the rise Of new and permanent industry
in the solution of a much veXed ques
tioa by giving remunerative labor ON
corn lands OF the west TO Il great number
Of the unemployed, The alleged idea
tlLy in all important particulars OF the
crude saccharne juices to which the
author, as well ~ Others, once gave evil
dence, has proved to be an error. What
ever is valuable in the new process Of
making sugar from sorghum and maize
il he direct result Of the removal OF this
old stumbling block. The following is a
brict synopsis of the process:
1t is this process which Prof. Caller,
chemist OF the Agricultural department,
has recently put in successful operation
On small scale.
rrs,, heat the lreshly-expreYsed juice
Of the cane, sorghum or maiz3, in II
copper or tinnedNirOn vessel to Il temper
allure as shown by a thermometer sus
pended 80 that the mercury bulb is
immersed in the juice Of $50 degrees
Fahrenheit, equal to 50 degrees Cent?
grade.
Second, after the Juice has been heated
10 lS5 degrees Fahrenheit, add and stir
into it one fluid ounce Of cream OF lime
to each gallon Of juice, or from five to
seven pounds (plnt9 to each hundred
gallons OF juice.
Third II ter 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 con.
tanning the juice from the fire, and as
soon as the sediment begins to settle,
draw off with a siphon the clear liquid
from the top until at least nine.tenths of
the whole quantity OF juice has been
thus removed, leaving II thick, muddy
sediment at the bottom
Fifth, sweep out with broom this
muddy sediment into a bay, filter, and
add the filtrate as it passes through the
filter to the clear liquid siphoned off.
Sixth, to the clear liquid thus obtained
in sections fourth and fifth, which should
be allowed to cool to a temperature OF
$50 degrees Fahrenheit equal to &c
degrees centlgrade) and not lower there
IL now added OF Solution Is one fluid
ounce to each gallon of juice, or from
five to seven pints each 100 gallons of
Juice. At least enough of Solution Il is
to be added to completely neutralze the
lime in the juice, ana to determine this
point slipot blue litmus paper sdipped
into the solution, when, if enough OF
Solution b has been added, the blue color
will be changed to red. (SOlution b is
one of the inventors chem.c3l prcpara-
tiOns.)
Seventh, evaporate rapidly, Swimming
from time to time any scum which
appears upon the surface, and adding
SJlulion b in small quantities if the
boiling Juice will not turn the blue litmus
paper red.
Eigth, when the thermometer in the
boiling Juice indicates a temperature OF
235 equal to l22 ccntgrade) the strip
should be withdrawn from the fire, and
it should be kept to crystalizs in room
of about 70 degrees Fahrenheit, equal to
u centigrade. To facilitate crystaliza
ton, II few grains Of granulated sugar
may be added to the cooling strip when
it has reached the temperature of 100
degrees Fahrenheit equal TO 80 cent?
grade.)