The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-11-11
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

a ValuablesInvention.
Hersey,s Patent Sugar Dryer and Granu-
lator-I Fine Work ON Yale's Home
Plantation, Parisl, Of Ascension.
On the LIST Of November the editor Of
the CHIEF visited Mr.. r. H. Yale's Home
plantation in this parish, and inspected
i the workings Of a new apparatus put in
operation there this season, known as
Hersey's Patent Sugar Dryer and Granu-
lator, invented in 1871 and manufactured
by Messrs. Hersey Bros, South Boston,
Mass Assuming that every planter and
sugar maker understands the advantage
of manufacturing graduated sugars,
which always command better prices
than other grades, we shall not ex l,atiat
upon this point, b,: will confine our
selves to "a description of the apparatus
aud it's work, quoting as follows from an
illustrated circular which gives faithful
pictorial and leiter-press representations
OF the machine III perspective and by lol,-
gitudinal aud transverse sections:
/ The Dryer and Granaletor is composed main
~ of two cylinders, the outer one being called
the Conveyer Cylinder and the inner one the
Heater. The Heating Cylinder. which Is fast
ened to the C0nveyer-Cyinder and revcives
with It, Is filled with steam through a pipe at
one end, and the water of condensation is deliy-
cred through q pipe at the opposite end, SO that
the Heating Cylinder Is always full of steam.
/ a a M ar,rt
spout by u set of rolls placed above the macnIne
or by screw-feed; and by lifting shelves on
the inside OF the outer cylinder Is carried up
and dropped IN continuous shower upon the
Heating Cylinder, and rolls Oft by rotation of
the machine, to be again carried up, working
forward to the opposite end by the inclination
the Screen for separation into the different
! grades. A striker. operated by cams, is rugged
ut the upper end of the machine, the purpose of
winch IL to knock OFT any sugar that may adj
here to the cylinder when first entering the ap-
| paratus. The machine IS rotated by means of
| gear upon the outer cyllnder, driven By plnion
| on q revolving shaft underneath the cylinder,
The current of air passing through the ma
chine constantly carries of the moisture through
| pipe provided for the purpose,
One Of the important features Of the machine
Is, that sugar being delivered from the end into
which the cold a1r = passing is SO cool that 1t
does not cake, can be Immediately barreled and
will not cause the barrels to shrink.
The sugar being granulated or dried, not so
much from extreme heat as by the moisture be-
ing constantly carried from the machine, comes
out perfectly clear and whlte-being superior IN
This machine will granulate much more sugar
than any before used. 1t only requires from
tour to SIX horsepower to run 1t, and very little
| steam IS necessary to supply the Heater.
The steam supply can be readily regulated so
as to secure uniform heat and such pressure as
may be found best adapted for drying.
Inc machine beng automatic. no labor is re-
CURED about 1t; the sugar being thrown into the
hopper, works through the dryer, then through
The sitter or screen, # one Is used, then into
barrels, ready for market.
Three sizes of the machine are manufactured:
No. ls feet diameter, % feet long, weighs SIX
tons; No. is #. diameter, 20 #. long, weighs
i've tons; No. Is It. diameter. Is #. long, ana
weighs four tons. screen weighs one ton.
We are fully satisfied from a persona,
examination OF the operations Of this in
gon"us yet simple apparatus that Its
merits and advantages are fully as great
as are claimed for it. Sugar taken direct
from the celtrfugals was put in the hop
per OF the elevator, aud i'll q minutes
was running from the lower eud Of the
Dryer into the barrel in l0min.tes more
the barrel was headed up, ready for ship
ment. The machine at Iaic's vii, r,atlil, !
dry 1000 pounds per hour Frei1 t 20 ! Il
barrel If Jumps ARE ,Ia.i, il, ~y.,.. IUu
Enrre!s Ut sugar, hti t,,ese aie un ipss,
being tirowu buck into the ci,.rliier and
rtboiled. !
We were shown the following record |
OF a strike tested for loss of weight, the |
sugar being weighed directly as it came |
from the centrifngals, without being |
spread on tho floor: Total 2y5O4 pounds, |
"a pounds Jumps; amount OF sugar tina, |
came out of the dyer, including Jumps,
292a pounds; net loss, III pounds, OF .764 |
OF ono per cent. At present prices OF SUI
gar, this weuid represent loss Of u |
cents per barrel, whereas the sugar dried |
by this process commands fully Z Of u |
cent per pound more than other grades !
We found from All inspection of the sugar |
weigher's accounts that's $50 barrels of !
first sugars had averaged 300 pounds !
each, and IS barrels of thirds $50 pounds |
each.
Mi. Yale, VIII, IL uiie Of our most enter
prisihg and successful sugar planters, is
highly pleased with the Hcrsey appara-
tns, and his cxp-rienc. vii! no doubt |
lead u ''un'ber of other planters i'll this
vicinity to procure the machine next
season. In fact, Mr.. C.yticitl has already
decided to put one Of the dryers in his
sugar house, and others will doubtless
follow his exanpie. The beautiful quail
lty OF the sugar being made at the Yale
place neeis to be seen to be properly a;,-
prtciated.
MIR. Geo. s. Chase, Southern agent of
Messrs. Her>ey Bros, has an office at No.
81 Magazine street, New Orleans, and he
will promptly furnish all infor,nation
that may lie applied for relative to til.
Hersey apparatus.
MURDER AT ToBlAsvILLE.-Lastk Sat
nrday afternoon, aloaA o'clock, Peter
Grccn aud Sandy Pollard, colored men,
got into difficulty while gambling at
the Tobias store jn,'he little fifth ward
settlement known as Marciand or Tobi-
asviiie, and Pollard shot aud fatally
wounded Green, who died half an hour
afterwards. A crowd of thirty or forty