The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-16
SORGHUM MANUFA CTURLNG.

William Frazier, who has large experience
in the manufacture of syrup from amber
cane, read an instructive paper before the
Wisconsin Cane Growers Convention. After
detailing his early experiences in the pro-
duction of syrup, Mr.. Frazier proceeded to
say:
now give you my process of manufacturing
I use two custom tanks, capacity $50 and zoe
gallons respectively; two lime tanks one hun
bred and fifty-fve gallons each and two tanks fol
semi-syrup, 100 gallons each. These tanks are
made Of galvanized iron and wood, and hold
for semi-syrup, which hold eight gallons to the
inch.
have 10 feet fall from mill to evaporating
house feet from level of evaporation to floor OF
syrup house. Run juice through a two inch
pipe SO feet long from mill to custom tanks
Here the juice is allowed to settle while the
tank is being filed. When it is tested, measured
and drawn through swing pipe from the top
leaving muddy sediment at the bottom and
ran into one of the lime tanks, put in enough OF
the milk of good fresh lime so the juice will
turn blue litmus paper purple It usually takes
little more than quart to 100 gallons of juice
When the lime is put in II must be thoroughly
mixed. OF course in this process lime my
juice cold.
boiling in patches; this believe to be unneces-
sary and inconvenient. / use pan IT feet long
by "A inches wide, with three apartments; the
one next to the smoke stack is five feet long, the
balance of the pan Is finished like the Cook
| evaporation, except that the channels are wider.
| I run the lime juice into the apartment next to
| the chimney. Ghls is made separate from bal
ance Of pan and placed higher; here it heats
| gradually bur never boils. We skim this part
about once in five or six hours II passes from
| this to the second apartment where it is raised
nearly to the boiling point, but not allowed to
| boil here 1t is SKINNED every two or three
hours. The juice is passed through gate from
| this to the third division, almost as clear as
water. where it Is boiled as quick as possible
until the green scum Is all of, then Is drawn by
i continuous flow into one of the Semi-Syrlp
| tanks where it is allowed to settle an hour or
| more from the time it begins to fill until it is
| empty. Here we obtain fecculancy, fine and
very tart these settings will ferment in short
| time. From these tanks the detected juice is
drawn through swing pipes into the Madison
PAM Cook pattern, where it is kept boiling
rapidly until finished.
| We run the finished syrup by continuous flow
| through wooden trough, covered with a fine
wire screen, 80 feet to cooler from one cooler to
| the other, when it is usually cooled to about
| 14Oo Fahrenheit. The second cooler is set upon
| trucks and when filled it is drawn by means of
| q windlass and pulleys to the top Of the syrup
/, tank, which has a capacity of 1880 gallons. A
| little porous alum water should be used In the
semi-Syrup. When one Of the tanks is about
three-f0urths full put in one pint of alum water
| To prepare the alum water, dissolve two and
one-half lbs. of porous alum in ten gallons of
| water.
TO prepare the lime take one-half bushel of
| good hme, put 1t into a half barrel .or tub OF
| large size: pour on eight or ten pals of hot
water, stir well while it Is Stacking to keep it
from burning let it stand till it settles, then
| drain the clear water from the top !; mix enough
water with the residue to make it about the con-
sistency of thin cream.
The settling tanks should be. rinsed two OF
| three times a day. Each tank should have a
| large hole in the bottom to expedite the cleans
ing On stopping for the day always have the
| mil and all the tanks that are emptled rinsed
and whitewashed. The milk OIL lime should be
freely used in or on all places about sugar fac
| tory that are likely to become sour. The wood
work of all tanks, coolers. tr0ughS, etc, used
about sugar factory should be thoroughly
| painted inside and outside with red lead and
/ boiled oil for obvious reasons. think the manu-
1 facturers OF pans and evaporatOrS ought to
| paint the inside of their wood work.
/ do not filter the cold juice, for the reason
that the desired result can be more surely &C
/ cOmplsbed by settling, even when no neutraliZ-
OF the merits of lime that have no thought OF
making syrup without the use OF it or its eqli-
valent. Any person who has not used settling
| tanks will. upon the use OF them. be surprised
| to find so much dirt and slime in the bottom OF
their tanks after draining the juice from the to
| by the use of swing pipes. For the purpose OF
controlling the flow of juice from the lime and
| semi-syrup tanks, / use enlarged wooden faucets
inserted in the outlets of the swing pipes.
| After allowing time for subsistence. the sooner
and more rapidly the juice and semi-syrup car
preferable to deep boiling have no doubt | an
speaking of fire trains. We aim to have the
juice about an inch deep in all parts OF the pans
except in the first two divisions OF the DETECTING
pan in these departments the depth must b,
regulated according to circumstances. takin'
care not to reduce the ten perature OF the juice
to any great extent. If the hot JUICE Is suddenl.
chilled by an undue rush of cold juice, or If TIN
fire is allowed to cool down, there viii OF cours
be partial precipitation OF scum. Under al
circumstances steady. hot fire should be KEEP
/ up.
Too much skimming is bad any attempt Il
remove the scum before it becomes sOmewha
firm, or in other words, has some body to 1t
will result in mixing it with the juice. thus ma
terlally lnlur1ng the quality OF the syrup. It'll
the scum is necessary even the white scum a
the finishing end Of the pan should all be take
of, and put into an open barrel, with wiz
screen cover, to keep out notes. m0lasses
gate should be put in the barrel near the bot
tom; when the contents have settled, prett
fair grade OF No. 2 syrup may De drawn tnere
from.
use wood for fuel have it split fine for tn
evaporation, so that an even hot fire may be KEEP
up.
The Cook evaporator makes a fine fnlshin
pan, II It IS preceded by good defecator. IN
one OF the best, If not the best, defeating pa
In use.
} Now, as to the results Of making syrup by tn,
foregoing process. as compared with the com
!, mon way. I can make from II to 1-3 more in
, given time, worth 10 cents more per gallon.
1881 the merchants refused to buy my syrup
my price. 50 cents per gallon. However. dnrin
the IAN ana winter It was all sold 70 consumer
who came to the factory and paid my price
They advertised my goods so thoroughly tina
during last October and November more tina