The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-10-03
CORN STALK SUGAR.
New Patent Process for Making Sugar from
Corn Stalks.

New Patent Process for Making Sugar from
Corn Stalks.
Washington, ID. c., September H.
The Republican Newspaper Company
Of Washington will issue tomorrow
volume containing an account Of The
recent remarkable discovery by which
sugar can be made from Indian corn
and sorghum at slight expense. This
work is q volume of one hundred pag-
es, containing a careful history of corn
and sorghum as sugar plants, with a
description of machinery and process
Of manufacturing.
This discovery enables the farmer
TO undertake he manufacture of sug-
ar from his own corn stalks without
the vast expenditure necessary III the
production of sugar from sugar-cane.
The inventor, L. l.. Sewart, chemist
of Philadelphia, will of course derive
his benefit from the use of the chcmi-
cal preparations necessary to the crys-
tilization process.
What these chemicals are and the
methods in which they operate is OF
course the secret, but the process is
made so simple that any farmer can
apply it.
Mr.. Sewart the inventor OF the pro-
cess, says the subject itself has claim
upon the attention of the American
people Of no ordinary kind. The eff
feet of a practical adoption Of these
truths will be TO reyolutionize sugar
production in this country, 10 enhance
almost beyond estimate the value of
Indian corn and sugar cane, to carry
the line Of available sugar-producing
territory from the Gulf Coast to the
fortieth parallel, to save the country
Sl00,000,000 now annually expended in
foreign sugar, and to assist by the
rise Of a new and permanent industry
in the solution of much vexed ques-
ton by giving remunerative labor on
the corn lands of the West to great
number Of the unemployed.
The alleged identity in all important
particulars of the crude saccharine
juices. to which the author, as well as
others, once gave credeDce, has proved
TO be an error.
Whatever is valuable in the new pro-
cess Of making sugar from sorghum
and maize, is the direct removal of
this old stumbling block.
The following is brief synopsis OF
the process
1t is the process which Prof. Collier
chemist OF the Agricultural Depart
ment, has recently put in successful
operation on small scale.
First-lleat the freshly expressed
juice OF the cane, sorghum or maize in
a copper or timed iron vessel, to a
temperature, as shown by a thormom-
eter suspended 80 that the mercury
bulb is immersed in the juice, to ls0
degrees Fahrenhsit, equal TO 81 de-
grces Centigrade.
! Second-After the juice has been
heated to 1855 degrees Fahrenheit, add
and stir into it one fluid ounce OF
cream of lime TO each gallon Of juice,
or five to seven pounds (pints) to each
hundred gallons Of juice.
Third-Ai,er adding and stirring in
The cream oflime, heat the juic rapidly
to the boiling point.
Fourth-When il begins TO boil shut
oil the heat. or remove the vessel con-
tanning the Juice from the fire, and, so
soon as the sediment begins to settle,
draw off with siphon the liquid from
the top until at last nine-tenths of the
whole quantity Of juice has been thus
removed, leaving thick, muddy seai-
ment at the bottom.
Fifth--Swecp out with a broom this
muddy sediment into bag, filter, and
add the filtrate as it passes through
the filter to The clear liquor already
siphoncd OF.
Sixth-To the clear liquid thus OBJ
tanned in sections fourth aud fifth,
which should be allowed 10 cool TO q
temperature of $50 degree Fahrenheit
equal to &C degrees centigradc) and
not lower: there is now added Of So
luton Il one fluid ounce 10 each gall
lon of juice, or from five TO seven
pints to each 100 gallons OF juice. At
least enough solution Il is to be added
to completely neutralize the lime in
the juice, and to dctesmine this point
slip of blue litamas paperis dropped
into the solution, when, K enough of
solution has been added, the blue coll
or will be changed TO red. Isolation
b is one of the inventors chemical
preparations.)
Seventh-Eyaporate rapidly, skim
ullnG llolt iis;it ~ ctuAf
which appears upon the surface, and
adding solution b in small quantities
if the boiling juice will not turn the
litamus paper red.
Eighih-When the thermometer in
the boiling juice indicates temporal
turc of 2S5 equal to il2 centigrade)
the syrup should be Withdrawn from
the fire, and il should be kept to crys-
lalizc in a room of about so degrees
Fahrenheit, cqaal to "a centigrade.
TO facilitate capitalization few
grains Of granulated sugar may be
added to the cooling syrup when it
has reached the temperature of leo
degrees Fahrenheit (equal to IS cent?
grade. y Washington Special to Che
ccyo Tribune.
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