Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-03

from it's original greenish-white color to
nearly the limpidness of water, is discharged |
into the ooagulating battery, twenty by sew
en- feet, capable of reducing five to six |
barrels an hour to density of |
20 to "a degrees Baume. In the !
coagulating battery the liquid passes
over steam coil, beginning at the middle |
of one end and running lengthwise, back |
and forth, covering the bottom. AS the |
liquid boils, its surface is thrown forward |
upon an elevation, from which it flows back |
in sloping channels at the sides, where |
whatever impurities may appear are skinned |
out. From the coagulating battery. 1the
liquid, now semi-syrup, passes into the
clarifying pans, which discharge it into
tank below, whence it is lifted, as wanted,
into the vacuum pan, where it is finished at
heat of 100 to $50 degrees F. The ar
rargement is labor-saving throughout, the
operations being automatic as far as possible.
This establishment, as l will endeavor to
show hereafter, solves the Northern cane
problem, at least SO far as proving that the
cultivation of amber cane and manufacture
of it's products may be made large and pro-
ftable industries.
The work of placing and fitting the ap-
paratus and machinery was not completed in
time to begin operations with freshly-cut
cane. The farmers delivered their cane
early in piles not calculated to preserve it in
best condition. Some had been cut month
or more before it was ground, and all was
moro or less fermented. Nevertheless, good-I
results were obtained. I sampled the refn-
cry syrup on hot cakes in the early morning,
while there was yet suggestion of frost in
the air of the breakfast room, snd it bore
the test admirably. The favor was delicate,
and the after taste purely saccharine So far
as that experience goes, I eau confirm what
DR.. Wilhelm says as to the quality of his
syrup, and will let hin speak for himself.
He says: "The process is mine. We claim
to take our the vegetable gummy matter:
that out goods are pure in taste or flavor:
and that we make the finest syrup in Amer
lea, chemically pure, containing not less
| than 60 to 70 per cent. of cane-sugar."
Sugar experts and grocers will understand
what this claim means. 1t means that the
refined molasses of amber cane is true
syrup, with sugar body,-an article which
for many years has rarely been seen in the
trade.
WILL IT PAY THE CANE GROWERS?
think so. The highest estimate of the
price Of producing the cane, including eight
miles of hauling, and every detail, from the
purchase of the seed and preparation of the
ground to the unloading of the cut, topped
and stripped cane, is $3.50 per acre. Many
cultivators estimate the cost much lower
The cost of seed need not exceed so cents an
acre. The cultivation is about the same as
for corn, except that the ground should be
freshly prepared at planting time, and ex
traordinary care is needed to protect the
plant from weeds when it first appears and
until it is thirty inches high-until which
time it is SLOW grower. After that,
it will take care of itself, and
grows very rapidly. To save hard
in check-rows, and, at the proper time for
thinning, not more than Eve stalks should
be left in each hill The best soil for the
cane is sandy loan. Heavy, rank or cold
soil, or fresh manure, will lessen the saccha-
rine development. The cane hybridizes
readily with millet, broom. corn, and all the
members of the tribe of sweet juiced grasses;
and this should be guarded against in choos-
ing seed and locating plantations. Order
your machinery so as to have no delay in
| working the cane as soon as it ia ready to
cut. Using horsepower and fire for heating,
the mill, furnace, pans, etc., for properly
handling five acres of cane can be bought for
800. For $3.50 an outfit can be secured
which will answer for working two or three
acres of cane.
| The yield in Minnesota, according to soil
and cultivation, has ranged from seven to
fourteen tons of stripped and topped stalks
per acre. At the Faribaut refinery, this fall,
$50 per ton was paid for the cane, delivered.
The yield of simple syrup, nine to ten
pounds per gallon, is sixteen to twenty gal
Ions per ton. The cost Of grinding and
boiling need not exceed seven cents gallon.
Such syrup will be worth to the refner 80 to
| IS cents a gallon. The cane will average
| per ton in refined syrup fifteen gallons;
weighing eleven and a half pounds to the
gallon; which will be worth, barreled, at the
! refinery, so to IS cents a gallon. The cost
! of refining will not exceed the cost of reduc-
ing juice to crude syrup. s..........
To recapitulate, estimating the average
product of cane at ten tons per acre. Cost,
delivered at the mill, $3.50; selling value,
$50. Reduced to crude syrup barrele d,
c.st, $33.4O; selling value, $45.25. Reduced
to refined syrup by direct process from pur-
chased cane, cost, barreled, $3.50; selling
value, $75. Reduced to refined sirup from !
crude syrup, cost barrelled, 55.75; selling
value, IS.
The cane-grower may also add to his
profits the value of the strippings, tops, and
seed. The tops and strippings-as good
feed for animals as would be the leaves and
top joints of corn-amount to from one ton
to ton and half per acre. The seed, about
Compounds to the acre, is certainly nutritious
grain. Bread made from seed of members
of the same family of grasses is regular
staple of food in some countries. Cattle
are said to eat clean the tops and strippings,
and to thrive on them. Cattle, sheep and
horses are said to like the seed, and to do
we'll when fed on it; though some authorities
caution against feeding 1t to COWS and ewes.
As the seed is hard and heavy grain, its
usefulness for feeding would probably be
increased by grinding or by steaming it, and
mixing with the cut tops of the cane.
This Northern cane does not appear to e1-
haust the land rapidly, but seems to draw
as little from the soil as any crop which is
cultivated in this locality. It is not quickly
injured by drought.
Vote for Rice and the Whole State Ticket.
[Chatfeld Democrat.
Hon. Edmud Rice has probably done az
much, if not more, for Minnesota than any
other man. He is gentleman and schol-
ar, and deserves the vote of every Democrat
in this county. Hundreds of Republicans
will vote for Mr.. Rice, for the reason that
he is worthy and we'll qualified, and it is
hoped that no Democrat will be found shirk-
ing his duty on the 4th of November.
Throw your whole strength in favor of Mr..
Rice and the whole State ticket.