The Osceola times., 1878-12-14
SOUTHERN Farm AND HOME.

| COrnstaik Sugar-.Ii0w 10 Make IT,
The Republican Newspaper Company o
] Washington issue q volume containin.
an account of the recent remarkable dis
covery by which sugar can be made iron
Indian corn and sorghum at slight ex
pens,. The work is volume of on'
hundred pages, containing careful his
tory OF corn and sorghum as suga
| ! ,nts, with description OF machiner,
and process of manufacturing. The dis
covery enables the farmer to undertake
the manufacture Of sugar from his owl
cornstalks without the vast expenditure
necessary in the production of sugsi
fr m sugarcane. The inventor, l.. +
Stuart, q chemist of Pennsylvania, viii
of course derive his profit from the ust
of the chemical combinations necessary
to the capitalization 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.
srt, the inventor of the process. says the
subject itself has claim upon the at.
teniion OF the American people of no
ordinary kind. The effect of the prac>
tcal adoption OF these truths will be to
revolutionizs sugar production in this
country, 10 enhance almost beyond esti-
mate the valse oil Indian corn and sor
ghum, TO carry the line OF available
sugar producing territory from the Gulf
Coast to the iortieth parallel to save the
country 800, 900, 900, now annually ex
pended fer foreign sugar, and to assist by
the rise OF new and permanent industry
In the solution OF much vexed ques
tiOn by giving remunerative labor on
corn lands OF the west To great number
OF the unemployed. The alleged idea
tity in all important particulars OF the
crude saccharine juices, to which the
author, as well as Others, once gave evil
dence, has proved to be an error. What
ever is valuable ia the new process of
making sugar from sorghum and maize
is the direct result of the removal OF this
old stumbling block. The following is q
briet synopsis Of the process:
1t Is this process which Prot. Collier,
chemist OF the Agricultural department,
has recently put in successful operation
en- small tcale.
First, heat the fresbly-expressed juice
OF the caue, sorghum or maize, in a
copper or tinned>iron vessel to temper
ature as shown by a thermometer sus
pended 80 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 1855 degrees Fahrenheit, add and stir
into it one fluid ounce Of cream OF lime
to each gallon of juice, or from five 10
seven pounds (pints) 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 con-
tanning the juice from the fire, and as
soon as the sediment begins to settle,
draw off with siphOn the clear liquid
from the top until at least nine-tenths of
the whole quantity OF juice has been
thus removed, leaving thick, muddy
sediment at the bottom.
Fifth, sweep out with a broom this
muddy sediment into bag, filter, and
add the filtrate ~ it passes through the
filter to the clear liquid siphoned off.
Sixth, to the clear liquid thus obtained
in sections fourth and ffth, which should
be allowed to cool to a temperature of
l50 degrees Fahrenheit (equsl to 66
degrees centIgrade) and not lower there
il now added of S)lution r one fluid
ounce to each gallon Of juice, or from
five to seven pints each 100 gallons of
juice. AT least enough of Solution b is
70 be added to completely neutrslize the
lime in the juice, ana to determine this
point slip OF blue litmus paper is dipped
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 chemical prepara-
tions.)
Seventh, evaporate rapidly, skimming
from time to time any scum which
appears upon the surface, and adding
Sliution 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 temperature of
235 equal to l22 centigrade) the sirup
should be withdrawn from the fire, and
it should be kept to crystalizs in a room
of about 20 degrees Fahrenheit, equal to
27 centigrsde. To facilitate crystalizs-
tion, a few grains Of grsnulsted sugar
may be added to the cooling sirup when
II has reached the temperature of 100
degrees Fahrenheit (equal to 3S cent?
grade.