The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-11

: Mr.. Carney, which are delicately tinted an
! as clear as the finest amber. Perhaps the Ell
terprising "down-easter,'' who wasn't goin
home until he saw them make turpentin
may discover some method by which it can
prevented from melting. If this could be &C
complished, and the taste left out of it,
might prove better imitation of amber thai
celluloid did OF coral. Who knows but there
millions In it."
+ An ordinary copper still, similar to those il
use at grain dlstillery, is used to separate tn
spirits OF turpentine from the rosin A sill
e with a capacity of twenty barrels OF the crud
will dispose OF five charges in day, eacl
charge yielding about one hundred and forty
gallons OF spirIts and from fourteen TO sixteeI
barrels of rosn.
While the boiling is in process small STREAM
OF hot water is kept running into the still tC
prevent the rosin from burning. IL requires
\ very close attention, and il it shows a DISPOSE
ton to run over the only remedy is to TUCK
up the IRE" and increase the degree of heal
under the still. Like that popularity in ma
tnre Which makes hardwood grow upon lands
from which soft wood has been cut--oaks ano
hickory where there were only pines, ano
pine and hemlock where there had been maple
and oak-I can not explain it, but have to
accept it tor fact because I've done saw it
with my own eyes,
II yOu are Will LlG UtOtJnS UD6IJllIl
OF whiskey- making you know that the spirit
rises from the boiling mash in the form OF va
por, passes INTO a cooled pipe known as a
worm, which is kept submerged IN cold
water, when it is condensed, going on its way
to the cistern room. just such course do
spirits OF turpentine follow, only with the lat
ter there escapes the water which has been
added to prevent the burning. The turpentine
then rises TO the surface and passes on to the
barrel waiting to be filled.
/ When the water escaping from the still
worm ceases to bring turpentine with it, the
stlll-cap is removed To permit an escape OF the
steam, the fire Is drawn out, and the escape
door of the still opened The rosin rushes out
a steaming, kissing, bubbling mass, reddish
golden brown in coior and odorous as whole
sale chemical factory. 1t first passes through
a coarse wire sieve, then through one much
| liner, and finally stout canton-tlanneI Strain
| er catches all remaining impurities. The in
| tense heat escapes III a lew minutes when it is
dipped into barrels and is ready Tor the in
spectors brand. Chess, Carley u Co. of Louis
vile, KY, handle nearly all Inc product of the
distillerIes III Alabama. Their inspectors visit
the distilleries regularly, examine and class
| the rOsin, send the statement OF quality and
amount TO the Mobile Office, from which the
distiller promptly receives his money.
| Strong, coarse barrels are used, the weight
of barrel OF a rosin being about two hundred
and eighty pounds Mr.. Carney manufactures
his own barrels, employing three coopers VINO
set up seventy-fve barrels day.
| The turpentine is transported in iron tanks
like those used for carrying oil. One is kept
on a side track at his distillery, considerable
10 IS from evaporation being avoided by empty
ing the product OF each charge directly INTO
| the tank.
nd tnn ora llrr fho ho,k
months in the year, the trees yielding better
then than in the very hot or cold weather.
The books show that his orchard produced
during the month OF May, two hundred and
elghty-One barrels OF turpentine and eleven
| hundred and eighty-two barrels of rosin. the
price OF turpenLine al the distilleries is now
about thirty-Iour cents per gallon and mar
ket. The best is known to the trade as water
white" the next as window glass" then TX
ira pale, 'pale," low pale strained" and
so on down to common"
One distiller told me that a well managed
Orchard" will pay all expenses from the
rosin alone, leaving the turpenLine as clear
profit. MIR. Carney has still another source OF
profit from his forests he has erected large
steam lumber mill, and as last as his trees are
boxed out be converts them INTO lumber, all
OF which is sold for fifteen months ahead. As
he is progressive man it " III not ne strange
if he experiments with saWdusL A man IN
Southwestern Georgia has demonstrated that
by a sweating process fourteen galIous OF splr
its of turpentlne, three or tJuf barrels OF rosin
and considerable tar can be obtained from a
ton of pine saWdust. What is then left might
be pressed into cakes, DRIED, and shipped to
cities for kipdhng wood or lUf iood tor goats
AS fast as the land is cleared it will be cul-
! tivateG, tor the idea that the 'plney woods"
soil is too poor to grow crops has been eXplod-
ed The warm, clean stables In which are kept
the large number OF mules required for the
work, prove that he has advanced IDEAS most
Southern men firmly believing that starvation
and ill-treatment only toughens mule ana
insures him longer life-and The queerest thing
about it all is That the sight OF d uozen OF Sims
kicking their last kick won't change their
opinion. They'd a died wher' or no; their
timed done come" will be all they will say.
Into large corral are driven every night
! the stock that roams through The pine woods
all day, and fine sight it is. When | Was
| there, q bit ago, thirty COWS were MIXED, and
| about as many more were taking care of their
calves, which are not separated from them
until they are two years old. COW in
| Northern dairy would think the millennium
had come if she were given two years time,
with nothing to do but grow tat and raise her
| baby. She expects to do her share toward
enough to drink skim milk and though she
make the nights hideous with her wailings
| after offspring, she heart OF man will not be
moved thereby.
| One hundred and forty men are employed
about the mill and the dlstillery, and scattered
about are the homes of many OF them, making
lquite settlement Near the lower distillerY
is a store and little church.
| In large cottage-house, not very far from
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broad acres, the man who works harder and
carries bigger burden than any Of the large
number who take their wages from him every
Saturday night. IT is an unpretentious yet
| charming house, made triply SO by the gentle
courtesy OF its inmates. Under The direction
Of governess three charming daughters pur-
| sue their studies. Two of these bright young
girls furnish perpetual puzzle, for stranger
! is utterly unable to distinguish one from the
other. The two Dromios never bewidered
people half SO much as the sisters, without in
| tending it.
A look at the commercial value does not
| Danish from the mind the sentiment which
| most people associate with pine forests. Ii
| the winds sang dirges in the tree-tops before,
| the music will seem none the less sad as they
| stand among them and see the ugly wounds
| which Nature with tender fingers, strives to
heal, only to find them torn open atresh. The
broad arms which for more than century
have been trying to reach the skies, are not
long enough TO defend their great body from
the savage thrusts even the delicious perfume
seems like costly incense offered up as ran
som for their lives and listening to the strange
murmurings which The gentle breezes bring to
the cara sound which no language can de-
scribe-one wonders if they are not trying TO
comfort and cheer each other rs they wait the
inevitable. LID. G.
ECONOMICAL INDIAN PUDDING.-Scald one
quart of sweet milk, into it stir five rounded
tablespoonful of Indian meal; one teacup OF
brown sugar, or FIVE tablespoonfuls of mo
lasses, one teaspoon Of ginger, and little
salt; put in a moderate oven to bake, and in
half an hour stir in one cupful OF cold rich
milk; bake two hours. This is improved by
adding teacap OF stoned raisins when the
| cold. mil icsn ldod