The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-05

advantages OF this process are not discussed
m the meet ample and practical, and many
Of our manufacturers of sugar have either
made or intend to make q trip to Germany or
Austria TO study this process, now Tor long
time used In those countries. and conducted
to remarkable degree of perfection
II this tendency, to which VIC draw attefl-
ton to-day, continues, no long time will In
tervens before this method Of manufacture
is introduced into the 600 sugar-houses we
possess Before the lapse Of llva years the
extraction Of heet root juice vii everywhere
be made by diffusion, and the barbarons means
progress OF diffusion In Austria, Germany
and Russia will have disappeared and given
place to Il well tried process at once the most
slIcaelous and economical, while ut the SAFE
time II IL imperatively demanded by the actual
conditions OF our manufacture
or the various proceedings tried In Europe,
during the Last ten years. that of 'ditluslnn
Is the only one that has given satisfaction 10
every respect.
Carefully studied, at It's commencement In
Austria, by Jules Robert, this method only
took some small development In France In
1867 At this date, out Of t2t augar houses In
Austria Ia were mounted with hydraulic
presses, five with other apparatus, ana two
1s76-77, diffusion reigncd In 80 per cent OF the
suHar houses
In Germany the same change took place,
but more slowly for instance, In 1912. in
Germany. about 16 per cent OF the ..snr
houses possessed diffusion. while In 1875 7G
| It wasT pcr cent, ana In fs77.7S 1t had reached
| 6s per cent. These facts show the superiority
Of diffusion" over the other methods OF ex.
traction, which all, hydraulic. single and
double mills, had been tried In Germany. rhe
adoption Of diffusion IL Germany and Austria
has been the work Of time, and In these coun-
| tries, as III France every system has been
Instrumentation, eentrtfngHls and mills OF
every variety. Diffusion has alone stood the
| test.
Its system OF proceeding, however, has
during the last ten years undergone great
changes, and the battery" actually In use
resembles but little the original apparatus,
valves and pipes we'll fitted to deter the most
courageous manufacturer. To-day "diffu-
sion' Ia Il proceeding. simple, practical. OF easy
operation, and which affords no greater diff
culties as to valves and pipes than RlllieuA
battery. And, we may add, there la relson to
believe further simpliticattons will be made
under the examination OF our best manufac-
| turers.
| Mr.. Dymond said that II appeared from the
report Of the committee that by the improved
mills gain or rs per cent was made, that is,
the came quantity of cane which gave 100
hogsheads Of sugar by the old process, by the
new would yield lbs hogsheads. II this was
tbs case, very emphatic announcement Of
the fact should be made, as 1t was one OF i'm
mense Importance.
Mr.. Kenner said that he had witnessed most
OF the experiments reported by the com mitter,
and had reached the conclusion that five
roller mill produced better results than a
three roller; that succession OF pressures
vas better than one. and that the pressure
supplemented with water was better than dry
pressure.
The committee WAS requested TO continue