The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-20
WHAT'S GOING ON IN CUBA.
HAVANA SUGAR PLANTERS ENcouR-
AGED BY FINE WEATHER
A New Suffrage Law Which Creates
Anxietv-The Havana Lottery in Dam
ger-Measures to Make the Metrop-
oils Plao Where People Can Live.
Havana Correspondence OF thcN, Y. Herald

Havana Correspondence Of thcN Y. Herald.
Fine weather throughout the sugar dis
trict during the past two weeks has en-.
abled sugar planters to grind cane this
year later than usual, and the high prices
OF sugar are also an incentive thereto. The
sugar crop in Cuba the present season will
be less than that OF last year, but not so
much less as was calculated two months
ago.
Sugar cane on Cuban estates is gener.
ally planted in shallow furrows, in rows
one way, laying the pieces OF cane fat in
the burrows and covering them lightly
with earth. There are owners who insist
on planting in rows both ways, and pac.
ing the pieces oil cane vertically in holes
made in the intersections OF the rows with
q crcwbar or other suitable instrument.
The advantages OF this process are that
drouth affects the growing cane less, the
fine roots being deeperin the ground, and
when the cane is cut the wheels Of the
carts and the feet OF the oxen used in col
lecting the ripe cane do less damage to the
plant.
In early times Of sugar making the corn
juice was extracted by grinding the cane
in primitive mills. II was then boiled in
open kettles at high temperature, dip
ping the syrup from one kettle to another,
and so on to the third or fourth, and from
this last, at crystalizing point, the thick
syrup was placed in large rectangular pans
or hogsheads, and the result was mnsco-
vado sugar, more or less pure, and mo-
lasses with large percentage of saccharine
matter that might have been made into
sugar, but the people did not know how
then. This boiling the cane Juice at high
temperature in open kettles turned Il part
of the sugar that should have crystalized
into glucose.
AN IMPROVED SYSTEM.
Since then the process OF sugar making
has much improved, and now, in the best
arranged sugar houses, tho cane Juice is
evaporated in vacuum pansor large globu.
lar boilers, air tight, aud by tho use OF
steam. Air pumps are used 10 create a
vacuum over the cane Juice placed in the
boilers. Means arc provided to carry off
the condensed vapor from the boiling
liquid. When three OF these boilers are
placed close together and steam from the
first used in the second and aitcrward in
the third, the syrup, rs 1t il passed from
one boiler TO the others, soon crystaliZes at
low temperature and nearly all the sugar
the juice contains il obtained. The syrup
at crystalizing point, drawn from
the last boilers, is placed in de-
posts 10 cool aud niterward put
in tub-shaped machines, with fine holes in
the sides. These rcvolyc rapidly and the
moasscs is thrown out, leaving the dry
sugar in the bottom OF the machines iii
for use. These machines are called cen.
triiugals and the sugar thus made ccntri.
iugal sugar. II this mass Is left TO rcvolye
little longer than usual the sugar. when
taken from tho ccntriugals, is OF light
straw color and there * none better
In the world Tor family use. These differ.
ent operations require practice and skill
on the part Of the operative in charge.
The superintendent should needs possess
ability and tact In the management OF men.
There are sugar estate owners in Cuba
who cultivate the growing cane in proper
way and always have cane 90 grind when
the time comes They arc also we'll posted
rs 10 the details OF the work 10 bc done In
the sugar-houses and see to II. These arc
the men who make fortunes in Cuba mis-
ing cane and making sugar, even at low
prices.
THE NEW SUFFRAGE LAW.
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