The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-12-20
sonrnERN FARM AND HOME.


Cornsta.k Sugar--HOW TO Make It.
The Republican Newspaper Company OF
Washington issue volume containing
an account of the recent remark a6le dis
covery By which sugar can be made from
Indian corn and sorghum at slight ex-
nense. The work is a volume OF one
hundred pages, containing a careful MS
tory of corn and sorghum as sugar
plants, with description OF machinery
and process of manufacturing. Inc as
coyery enables the farmer to undertake
the manufacture of sugar from his own
cornstalks without the vast expenditure
Necessary in the production or sugar
fir m sugarcane. The inventor, u.
Stuart, q chemist Of Pennsylvania, WIZ
of course derive his profit from the use
of the chemical combinations necessary
to the Capitalization process. w mat
these chemicals are and the methods Dy
which they operate are OF course the
secret, but the process IS made SO simple
that any farmer can apply It. Mr.. Stew
art. the inventor of the process. says the
subject itself mas claim upon the at
teption OF the American people OF no
ordinary kind. Tire effect of the prac>
tical adoption Of these truths will be to
country, to enhsnce almost beyond estl-
mate the value of Indian corn and sOr
ghum, to carry the line of available
sugar producing territory from the Gull
Coast TO the iortieth parallel to save the
country 500 600 0O0, now annually eN
pended for foreign sugar, and 70 assist by
the rise of q new and permanent industry
in the solution OF a much vexed CUES
ton by giving remunsrative labor on
corn lands OF the west TO g great number
% the unemployed. The alleged idea
tity in al importsnt particulars OF the
crude saccharine juices, to which the
author, as well as Others, once gave evil
dence, has proved 70 be an error. What
ever is valuable IN the new process of
making sugar fE.sIE.. sorghum ard nsss'z@
is the direct resdlt of the removal of this
old stumbling block. The following Is a
brief synopsis Of the process:
1t is this process which Prof. Collier,
chemist OF the Agricultural department,
has recently put in successful operation
on small scale.
First, heat the freshly-expressed juice
of the cane, sorghum OK maze, in q
copper or tinned>iron vessel 10 temper
allure, as shown by a thermometer sus-
pended so that tine mercury bulb Is
immersed in the juice OF $50 degrees
Fahrenheit, equal to 50 degrees Cent?
grade.
second, after the juice has been heated
to 1S5 degrees Fahrenheit, add and still
into it one fluid ounce OF cream OF lime
to each gallon of juice, or from FIVE to
seven pounds (pints) 10 each hundred
gallons of juice.
Third, alter adding and stirring in the
cream OF lime, heat the iaice 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, aud q.
soon as the sediment begins to settle,
draw off with q siphon the clear liquid
from the top until st least nine-tenths oil
the whole quantity OF juice has been
thus removed, leaving q thick, muddy
sediment at the bottom.
Fifth, sweep out with 8 broom this
muddy sediment into 81 bag, 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 8 temperature oil
$50 degrees Fahrenheit (equal to sc
degrees centigrsde) and not lower; there
Is now added of Solution B one fluid
ounce to esch gallon OF juice, or from
five TO seven pints each 100 gallons OF
juice. At least enough o. Solution b Is
TO be added to completely ueutTalizs the
lime in the juice, anu to determine this
point slipot blue itmus paper Is dipped
into the solution, when, If enough oil
Solution B has been added, the blue color
viii be changed to red. Solution B is
one of the inventors chem csl prepare
tions.)
Seventh, evaporate rapidly, skimming
from time to time any scum which
appears upon the surface, and adding
Solution 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 10 centigIade) the strip
should be withdrawn from the fire, and
it should be kept TO crystshzs in a room
of about 20 degrees Fahrenheit, equal to
q ceDtigrsde To facilitate crystaliza-
ton, few grains Of graduated sugar
may be added to the cooling strip when
it mas reached the temperature of 100
degrees Faarenheit equal to IS cent?
grade.)