The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-31
Farm and Home.
Small Sorgo Works.

making we nave ever seen Is Qe-
scribed below. We copy it for sor
go makers to pattern after next sea
son:
Col. Colman: As you requested
and l partly promised, l will Civ
brief description of my small SO 90
works.
spent some time finding a hill
that Just suited me. / have a two
horse vertical three-roll mill weigh
ing 1000 lbs. 1 have a track made
of 2x4 scantling set two feet apart
and notched one inch, and bOlted
to 2x4 ties 5 to Z feet apart. The
track extends back or 10 rods and
has fall of eight or ten inches to
the rod toward the mill. The in
cline of the track is such that when
stopped the car will usually stand
still.
The wheels of the car are straw
carrier pulleys of an old threshing
machine set two feet apart. The
car frame set inside the wheel, is of
PKG braced by two { diagonal bolts.
The cane frame of 2x4 entends
some four or six inches outside the
wheels and has standards as high
as the cane can be without interfer-
ing with feeding. We use two cane
frames. They are slightly notched
to keep in place on the car, but not
otherwise fastened. The section
of track next to the mill is set on a
catch. When the car of cane is
showed to the mill the cane frame
knocks loose the catch and the sec
ton of track and car drops leaving
the cane frame of cane resting or
supports outside the car and track
just where it is the handiest to feed
The man who loads the cane SEXES
a rope which drags behind the cal
and runs it back to the yard, puts
on another frame and loads the cal
again, dropping the butt ends of the
armfuls of cane on a board to ever
them, which greatly facilitates the
feeding. The feeders steps on a
short lever which again puts the
track in place.
The juice is carried to the bottom
of barrel by wooden pipe. About
four inches from the bottom is
placed a false movable bottom, and
above to the top of the barrel is
filed tightly with clean straw. A
couple Of inches from the top of the
barrel a pipe is inserted, which takes
the strained juice through an inch
gas pipe to the juice tank. When
wishing to clean the strainer or at
the close of run, tap the barrel
lower down so as to get all the
strained juice.
Have two juice tanks, each hold
ing about $50 gallons. An elbow
on the end of juice pipe turns the
juice into either tank. Tanks are
made of L J inch pine bolted togeth-
er and painted with red lead and
oil. Use lime in juice after Hedges
book. Have swing pipe in each
tank joined outside to pipe to evap-
orator. At evaporation have stopcock
to regulate flow. Have floats to
keep swing pipe drawing from sur
face ofjuice.
Juice enters evaporators at chin
ney. The back side of evaporator
and end next chimney have no di-
visions. The scum is removed as it
gathers at the back end over an in
cllned side ofthe evaporation. The
juice passed down the back side of
the evaporator and the front side is
divided by low partitions. Have
one division eight feet from front,
to top of evaporators and usually
keep more depth of juice in front
than behind division, but as little
as 1 can all the way without it's get
ting to popping. / keep nearly a
continuous flow. Syrup passes
through cooling troughs 4 16 fleet
long 5 inches wide, tin bottomed and
cloth covered to syrup tank. Have
four syrup tanks or rather one long
tank divided in the middle into
two by a solid partition and each of
these exactly in the middle by a
partition with a gate through it at
the bottom. The cooler empties
the syrup into either half and the
gate in the partition is left open.
When the tanks are full or the job
ended the syrup from the cooler is
turned into the other two, the gate
between the two is shut { 1 make
mostly on the halves. The depth
of syrup in the tank shows the ex-
act quantity. Set my barrel under
one gate, and my customers under
the other, and all that tiresome
work of dividing and measuring is
done.
If others will give details of their
works and workings, 1 may, if you
will lallow, give occasionally some
ideas or items of the work which
seem to me worth mentioning. Es-
pecially 1 would like to her of the
different styles of bagasse furnace.
Mine is good. If there is better,
l want it. w. @. A.
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