Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-26
Amber Cane Syrup and Sugar.


H. Talcott, the president of the JEFF
ferson (Ohio) sugar manufacturing
company, writes to the American
Grange Bulletin:
Last winter your readers were made
acquainted with the success of the
Jefferson sugar manufacturing com.
pany in their efforts to help develop
this new industry for our American
people-which we fimly believe will
soon prove to be one of the main crops
in our agriculture.
The present season for this WORK is
now close upon as. We have fifty OF
sixty acres Of amber cane nearly ready
for work. As soon as the seed get
ripe we shall commence the harvest
but at this writing, Oct. 2, it will take
fully one week longer before any of il
is fit to work without wasting the seed
We save these seed tops and cure them
the same as wheat, and thresh them
precisely the same, not changing oul
machines particle. We got twenty
bushels, or more, of seed to the acre
and it is worth at least 81 per bushel
for feed, or for -four to eat in family
use. We got 81, 20 for all of ours las,
year. Strip the leaves and suckers OF
the main stalks, and crush the bare
stalks and boil down the juice as socu
after cutting as possible. If you wish
.c make sugar of it instead of molas-
ses, you will need to defecate the Juice
and cleanse it from the natural I'M
purities before you can succeed IN
making sugar to certainty.
This you can all do, if you exercise
little good, comm on sense, and DOM
know altogether too much about the
business before you commence.
Many people who have made molas.
ses for years think they know all about
it, and are the very hardest ones tc
learn to make sugar-because they
know too much in the wrong way
When you get the fresh juice pressed
out, have heating vat, pan or tub
middling deep, and either heated by
steam direct or fire heat, no matter
wh.t-suit your own convenience
have good thermom and when
the juice gets heated to about $50 de
grees stir into it quickly milk of lime
enough to turn red litmus paper blue
very promptly. Keep stirring it gent
ly and let the heat continue until il
boils. then remove the heat as soon al
possible. Allow the scum to rise, and
skim that all otf-the other impurities
will settle to the bottom.
You must then have way to draw
off the clear juice down to the thick
sediment in the bottom of your heat
ing apparatus. This We do with gum
tube, having an outlet to the bottom o.
the pan, and we sink the top of the
hose down in the hot juice as fast rs il
will run off clear. until we get close
down to the bottom of the pan. We
heat by steam direct into the juice
but you can do it any other way, only
so you gain the end. The juice in this
lime condition will be black as lye and
still hot. Then add Prof. Stewards 80
luton "B" until you change the color
to a perfectly clear bright straw color,
and have it change blue litmus paper
promptly to scarlet, and when in this
condition boil it down into mush
sugar, soon as possible, and do not
scorch it when nearly done. 1t must
be boiled like maple sugar until it is
real thick and will wax in cold water.
When boiled in this way, set it away in
tin or earthen vessels and let it granu'
late in warm room. 1t will then be-
come about two-thirds sugar, which
you must separate by canvass pressing
or centrifugal machine. Try it d
little this year and learn how, iii a
small way, and next year you can pre-
pare for more extended business
We are now running our mill on swee.
corn stalks, but it don't pay very well
and we shall stop that as soon as the
Amber cane is ready.