The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-03-04
Now Sugar Shredder.

The Newell Universal Mill Co., of New
York has introduced a sugar shredder used
on Governor Warmouths plantation in
Louisiana, which is thus described in the
Tim9- Democrat: 1--WE found the shredder
about 100 feet from the mill Its construc-
ton is as simple as it is effective. Two
shafts, with corrugated cones, the eleva-
tons of one fitting into the depressions of
the other, and one of the shafts revolving
to the right at the rate of 800 revolutions
per minute, and the other to the left at the
rate of 100 revolutions per minute. effec-
cane. The cane so shredded enters the
three roller mill, from which it passes as
usual to the supplementary mill. The
bagasse is so perfectly dry that the blower
generally applied in the bagasse furnace
has been dispensed with as unnecessary.
since the bagasse burns completely with
out its use. We were informed by Mr..
Fink, the gentleman in charge of the
shredder, that the only reason why the
shredder was set so far from the mill was
that Gov Yarmouth did not have entire
confidence in its success. The proper
place for the shredder Is Just in front of
the three-roller mill, and the calculation
now is that in the hundred-foot carrier
from the shredder to the mill. about 8 per
cent. of the juice is lost. Notwithstanding
this, the results given and carefully
watched and corroborated by Mr.. Spencer.
one Of Prof. Wiley's assistants, now located
at the plantation in charge of Govern
ment laboratory are as follows: The juice
extracted from 100 pounds of cane is from
rs to so per cent; the amount of sugar
obtained from ton of cane up to about
the middle of December. was Isl pounds,
while by former best known results from
five roller mills more than IS per cent of
juice has never been known to be extracted,
and 145 pounds of sugar per ton of cane
has hitherto been considered incredible.
From the above results, practically de
monstrated," continued Mr.. Studniezka:
" there remains no doubt at all that the
sugar industry of Louisiana is not in
danger of being abandoned. l have for
the past six or seven years, been strong
advocate of the belief that from 200 to
80 pounds are practically obtainable
from ton of sugar cane, and have never
shaken hands more cordially with Gov
me of the yield of his sugar cane by the
above method. On his plantation the
average yield of cane per acre, so far as
harvested last year, is twenty-one tons.
His sugar house will be in operation for
two or three weeks yet, and he will be
more than happy to show his unprece
dented results to any of his fellow plant
ers. Our visitors were greatly pleased
with their excursion, and it may also
prove of interest to your readers to know
that Mr.. Taylor, the engineer; Mr.
Mcdonald, the inventor of the hydraulic
pressure regulator; Mr.. Tilden, of Whit
ney's Foundry, and Mr.. Murphy of Henes
sey's, were of the party, and their friends
will no doubt be glad to have their views
on this subject. Finally, permit me to
call the attention of your readers to a
very encouraging fact as to the condition
of beet sugar industry of Austria. was
informed more than two months since by
my brother, employed by the Bodencredit
Geselshaft, of Prague, Austria, that this
institution, one of the strongest banks of
Austria, was about to fail, and that the
only reason of their calamity was the
large advances made by them to beet
sugar factories and to beet sugar farmers.
Inasmuch, as l have lately seen cable
gram announcing the failure of this bank.
l need not have any hesitation in giving
the above details now. Let the Louisiana
planters raise more cane TO the acre, better
juice in their cane, and extract all the
juice they harvest, not invert any of the
sugar in their sugar houses, and they can
compete as sugar producers with the
world The outlook is a hopeful one"