The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-08-25
Varieties of the Sugar-Cane.
NUMBER VIII.

ing on the sugar manufacture there,
observes
ut appears that while the sugar
cane contains nearly twice as much
sugar as the beetroot, in the process
OF extraction more sugar is obtained
from the latter than the former.
Millions Of pounds of sugar are
thrown away in Louisiana every year.
The sugar exists in the cane in a
crystallized form, and cannot be
pressed out. 1t must be dissolved
out by water. The fact that the
Louisiana sugar industry needs the
aid OF science fully to develop the
wealth Of the State need not longer
be concealed. The agriculturists of
Europe call in science to their aid,
and are thus enabled to compete with
their less enterprising competitors
who are blessed with superior natural
advantages.
"'The following figures are well
worthy OF perusal. They are from
parties well versed in the subject.
The amount of beetroots contained
i'll an acre weighs, on an average, 80.
900 pounds. The cost OF cultivating
beetroot in Germany is 1856 francs !;
the internal revenue, 1895 frances
$3.50 per ton OF 1920 pounds.
Cultivation of beetroots in France,
Is francs; internal revenue, 1886
francs-$1007 for 1900 pounds.
Percentage of sugar in roots in
France, 5 to ~ per cent. Percent
age of sugar in roots in Germany, 6
to Ii per cent The internal reve-
nue. is in France fixed on the Juice
after it is extracted from the beets.
In Germany it is levied or the weight
of the beets. Quantity ofsugar man.
ufactured from 100 pounds of beets
in France, seven pounds equaling 1928
per cent. Quantity OF sugar manu-
featured from 100 pounds OF beets in
Germany, eight pounds, equaling
1875 per cent. In both France and
Germany the average per cent. Of
molasses is 1888 per cent. An acre
of sugar-cane (canes that are brought
to the sugar house to be manu-.
featured into sugar, costs in culture
in Louisiana $50. Last season 49,
70. acres of canes We're taken to the.
= = Serl ant haI,e.iss1s
mill in Louisiana. The average
quantity of canes per acre was, this
last season, 44,05S pounds, and the
cost per 1920 pounds, $3.50. That
year 1888, 10S,8O7, pounds OF canes
were passed through the mill; the
juice produced has a density OF
50 Beaume, equal to 14.4 per cent.
OF pure sugar per 100 pounds juice;
but only 1896 pounds OF sugar for
the 80 pounds juice contained in 100
pounds of canes. When the sugar is
drawn from the batterie or strike.
pan, it contains water OF crystalliza-
ton equal TO Is per cent, which,
added to the 1896 of sugar, are thus
divided: 8.942 sugar, 1862 molasses
-14.904 per cent. The quantity Of
sugar produced last year QS72) III
Louisiana, LAG, 906,125 pounds. The
quantity of molasses produced last
year, ll0,2l9.53S pounds. The cost
of manufacturing sugar, and the ex-
penses in fuel, hogsheads, barrels,
freight, commissions, etc., at least 4
cent per pound of sugar. Quantity
of sugar that should have been pro-
duced was 5S6,013,25O pounds of
molasses, 390,675,500 pounds.
"1he question now comes, can ma.
chinery be made that will extract the
whole of the sugar from the cane
Many of the machines DOW IN use in
Europe for the manufacture OF beet
sugar would exhaust almost the
whole OF the saccharine contained in
the sugarcane. But those apparatus
cost very high in money, and require
great many hands to work them;
presses to operate on 500, 900 pounds
cane in twenty-iour hours would
necessitate from fortY-eight to fifty
hands to attend to them; to the Juice
water must be added at the rate OF
Is to 80 per cent. The quantity Of
sugar lett in the pulp, from l to L!
per cent. Diffusion TO work the
same quantity OF cane would require,
to attend the diffusion vessels, ETC.,
twenty to twenty-five hands some
20 per cent. OF water is added,
and the cosettes or slices return ] per
cent. OF sugar. The use Of centritu.
gals or turbines to displace the sac.
charine from the pulp would be very
costly. A sugar house to work 500
900 pounds (nearly $50 tons) cane
per day would require lis hands to
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