Daily globe., 1880-01-24
A MHOPPER.

make it. But, II you don t like the rennefy,
why not sell your sirup to Mr.. Ken
ney? Or, why does he sell his sirup to
the refinery? But let's have facts. You
can make slrup from the cane at 10c. gal
Ion. We propose to have you do that with
proper apparatus.
Mr.. Chapman, of Window, said that Mr..
Kenney's sugar is not marketable article.
He was not an expert, but as grocer had
learned what sugar is. He pronounced Mr..
Kenney's product to be about third class
raw sugar, equivalent to the West Indies
crude sugar for refinery use. and asked DIR.
Wilhelm's opinion.
| The doctor said it was good article for
refining. But he wanted to hear from Mr..
Kenney that he had raised the proportion of
sugar stated.
| Mr.. Kenney said he would speak soon.
| Mr.. Abernethy did not like to have the
impression go out that farmers ceuld not
make sugar.
Mr.. Kenney said he had been offered 1Oc a
pound for his sugar.
Coffee A, standard sugar, sells here for
1O1a and granulated snpar for 1054. Mr..
Ksnney's is raw sugar, commercially not
equal to the brown sugars which sell here at
| 81 to 911c.
could have reduced his sirup without carmel
tizing he would have made double the
amount of sugar.
Mr.. Abernethy volunteered his testimony
from having seen MIR. Kenney at work that
he did not carbonate his srup.
Mr.. Kenney was confident he would make
4 T. e IIoa 1orv, ,aa
that the hot weather's effect last fall upon
! the cane juice stopped sugar making. Next
year he intended to get six pounds of sugar
to the gallon from his entire crop. But we
must have reineries. All farmers will not
mako sugar. l have been twenty years at it.
1t requires as much skill as to run good
farm.
An unrecognized member wanted to know
if Mr.. Kenney's sugar was worth as much as
granulated sugar. In response cake was
paused and it was explained that
it was made by rule for
brown sugar, using the same quantity of
the Kenney sugar. Everybody acknowledged
that it was well made cake, we'll sweetened,
but it was also claimed that equally as good
cake could be made and is made with crude
amber sirup for sweetening-there being no
difference as to the sugar taste OF flavor.
MILL ROLLERS.
Mr.. Lo Van read paper saying that sirup
from juice pressed out 10y wooden rollers
was lighter than from juice pressed out by
iron rollers. He recommended covering the
iron with hot beeswax to fill its pores and
prevent rast.
Mr.. Whiting suggested that the lighter
color was because in the wooden mills the
cane is not pressed 80 hardly as to take cut
the coloring matter.
Mr.. Muzzy, Of Ls Roy, said hard maple
rollers would be just the thing, if they did
not decay so fast at the center.
FILTERING, ETC.
Mr. Dickinson urged that cleanliness and
keeping the pans from foulins is the way to
mako light sirup. He filters through wire
screen, and afterwards through muslin,
which he considered better than hay OF
straw. He washed his muslin screen at least
once dag.
Mr.. Kenney explained his plan of Screen
ing in receiving vat by coarse wire screen
set slanting SO as to give four or five feet of
surface. The settling tank does the rest,
and he uses no straiuer; except that his semi
sirup runs into pail, discharging near the
top, SO that heavy matters stay in the pail.
He also explained the double bag for strain
ing, which he had not used yet.
G. NJ. scHwARTz's TESTS.
letter from G. M. Schwartz, of Edwards
vile, ILL.,, was read. Mr.. Schwarty gives his
experience last fall with amber cane, as fol-
lows: Po.ariscope tests of juice: When
seed was forming and some in milk, IL
per cent. sugar. Two weeks later, when
some of the seeds were hard, 12al per cent.
Then he began testing. In stove tests, srup
boiled at $50 degrees; did not set. At 234
degrees it became almost solid in "a hours,
bat was too gunmy. Then he began work
in his sugar house. Sirup boiled to 220 de-
grees, finishing in patches of or 10 gallons,
. inches deep, by rapid boiling to 22S de-
grees, when he moderated the heat by stir
ring. Tests: Strap, finished at 234 to 236
degrees, when cooled to so degrees, granu-
lated rapidly, and was almost solid in three
hours. Finished st 230 degrees, the granu-
lation took one to two days. At 22S de-
grees it took two to six days. Centrifugal
results: At 236 degrees, so per cent. fine
dry sugar: sirup too dark, but worked over
well with fresh juice. The density was too great
for open pan work. at 233 to 234 degrees,
too high for open pan, 40 per cent. sugar.
AT 232 degrees gave the best results. though
only 35 per cent. granulated. In Minnesota,
having less gum TO contend with, 230 de-
grees is equal to 232 degrees in Illinois boil
ing. Mr.. Schwarz said he had never got
clear defecation without sulphur, except by
an excess of lime.
Mr.. Schwartz planted his cane with q
drill. Mr.. Kennsy thought hilling was pre-
ferable here, so rs to give the cane plenty of
the sun. This view was indorsed by others.
VINEGAR.
Jared Benson wanted to know about am
Der cane vinegar. Mr.. LIE Van had failed in
trying to make it of green scum, but had
made good vinegar with the rinsings
of his evaporating pans, using soft
water. Mr.. Whiting had made
eight barrels of good vinegar from the white
scum. He filed the barrels full, bung up,
left them under a shed Bat exposed to the
sun, and filed up the barrels as the fermen-
tation worked over.
Col. Coleman said iaat in his section the