The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-09-01
Varieties of the Sugar-Cane.
NUMBER TX.

cane, its contents, and the manufact-
ure of sugar from it, are we'll worthy
the attention of all interested in it's
culture
One thousand two hundred and
forty gallons of juice at $50 Beaume
produced on plantation 1,04S
pounds OF sugar and 4SO pounds Of
molasses.
One gallon OF juice at $50 Beaume
will weigh 500 pounds avoirdupoise.
Therefore, 1910 gallons of juice will
weigh IL, III pounds.
One hundred pounds Of cane con,
tain ninety pounds OF juice. Then
It'll pounds of juice are produced
by 12,345 pounds of cane.
AT SIS Beaume the juice contains
1873 per cent. of pure and dry sugar.
If SO, I'LL pounds Of juice, having
that density, will produce 100
pounds of sugar.
When the sugar is taken out of the
boiler, it is combined with water Of
capitalization, which being added to
the 1873 per cent. of pure and dry
sugar equals 1885 per cent. OF sugar
and molasses; of this, three parts are
mo1asses, and we have for I'LL
pounds of juice at 1886 per cent.
equals 1855 pounds, OF which 1,173
are sugar and 1872 molasses.
This plainly demonstrates that the
loss in the manufacturing was 1877
pounds Of sugar and molasses. Also,
we can perceive that with lis
pounds Of cane one pound of
sugar and 0.48 OF a pound OF mo.
lasses were produced that, had there
been no loss in manufacturing, 1O.5
pounds of cane would have produced
one pound of sugar and 0.66 OF
pound OF molasses and that, if no
molasses had been produced, but the
whole juice had been converted into
sugar, one pound of sugar would
have been produced by 1926 pounds
of cane
The land, according 10 quality, can
grow or produce in Louisiana from
$4,000 to $4,000 of canes to the acre
the length OF the cane will vary from
three to eight feet; their weight be-
ing on an average, ten ounces to the
running foot.
Canes 4-5lset Long weighing each
three pounds, and growing $50 per
row, Of 100 feet long, would give
CLIPS pounds to The acre. AS an
average, the acre can be set down at
10000 pounds.
When canes are cut before they
are injured by the cold, they can be
kept for making sugar from three TO
four months. They lose some of
their water Of vegetation; the sugar
does not change in the least, and
stays in perfect preservation.
May 9th, 1873. = Seven months
ago, that is, in October, 1872, canes
were cut to plant; the sugar in those
canes is yet in perfect preservation,
and the juice has density Of Sc
Beaume.
The joints Of cane that has
dropped its leaf contain only crystal
liable sugar. The buds, or young
suckers of the joints, produce the
larger part of the coioring matter
found in the juice. In Louisiana the
density OF the cane juice varies from
&c to 100 Beaume; So Beaume be.
ing the average; 1888 per cent. OF
pure, dry sugar.
With displacement of methodical
washings, the sugar contained in the
sugar-cane can be easily exhausted.
When thoroughly. defeated, the
juice of the cane is very easily manu-
featured into sugar, and the whole OF
the sugar-cane can be made to crys-
talize.
Concrete sugar contains IL per
cent. less water than ordinary sugars,
which usually have sugar three and
and molasses two parts. Thus 6,OOO,-
600 pounds of cane manufactured
into concrete would produce 867 $40
pounds of sugar at the price OF some
I cents peripound, or $60,725 less
expenses, $40, 725 equals $4,000.
INDIA.
A few particulars regarding the
earliest development of the sugar in
dustry will not be found uninterest-
ing. The sugar-cane is native OF
India and Hindoo-China, where it
was exclusively cultivated from re.
mote ages down to the middle Of
the thirteenth century. AT this
period the trade extended itself into
the countries beyond the Ganges.
and thecultlyation was speedily taken
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