The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-04-09
the baking. A familyIof six will
want about four pans or breakfast
RatraI Neao Yorker.
From Syrp to Sugar.

Mr.. Moll made an experimental
trial Yesterday in reducing syrup to
sugar. TbI method used is that, or
nearly 81 of all refineries. The
exception is in the use of perfect
air pump-an invention ofhis own,
and the only invention the kind
Known in the worldly which all
the air is extracted from the alright
Vessels holding the syrup. On inqulr-
ing OF two gentlemen well acqualnlt-
cd with machinery, and with ar
pumps, as to the value OF this pump
both said it was the most perfect
machine they had ever seen. 1t was
new to them, and as the Intelligent
reader will see, it must be Invaluable
in the business OF making sugar. Mi:
Moll experlmenteG on some golden,
syrup made from Cuba cane, and
from some Florida syrup obtained at
one of the grocery stores on bay
street. The first experiment resulted
in extracting about half the bulk OF
the original quantity in clear, taste
less water, leaving the balance IN "a
condition to be crystalized into sugar.
The Florida syrup produced more
than half its bulk in highly colored
water with the smell oft real Flor
ida syrup. The balance was colored
but clear and nice looking, and free
from the taste peculiar to the syrup
of the country. But the waste was
too great to make its use profitable.
Leavin, the mode of experiment
ing out of the question just now, let
us call the readers attention to this
seeming waste and want of adap!a-
ton to sugar.maklng of the Florida
syrup. Why is this? 1t can be ex.
planned on scientific principles and
can be easily remedied. 1t is not
from any defect in the soil, nor in
the constituent elements of the cane,
nor in the climate nor air, but in an
accurate knowledge of how to take
care Of the juice when expressed and
in not having allthe necessary machin-
cry or Implements to grind the cane.
The luce of the cane when expressed
and left exposed to the air for any
length ahsorbs a principle from the
air which units it for crystalization.
Mr.. Moll processes to tell the cane
raiser how to guard against this. and
at the same time how to have more
syrup, and of a better quality, from
the same amount of juice.
A gentleman informed us yester-
day that he took barrel OF our syr-
up to New York TO be tested, and
the result was that it was not worth
so much to manufacture into sugar as
the common Havana molasses. If
Mr.. Mol shall tell the people how to
cure this defect he will have con-
ferred on the people of the State a
great boon.
This leads us to remark, generally,
that every article OF merchandise re-
quires care in its management and
fitting for the market, The value of
some articles depends very largely up
OH this care. 1t is prominently SO
of curing tobacco. So of the cane
and its preparation. Mr.. Moll, or
rather DR. Mol, will continue his ex-
periments, and tomorrow will exhib-
it the crystalized sugar made yester-
day from the syrup.
We can readily see, that if this
sugar refinery is made u success, and
of this we have no doubt, it will ne
cessitate the putting in operation of
steam works for grinding the cane,
close by the refinery. Then the
small planter can sell his cane, or
have it ground on shares. thereby
saving himself the expense Of hay
ing sugar mill.--Su'e and Press.