The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1889-01-18
He Burned HIS ships behind
Him and Marched 10
Diffusion.
COMPLETE SUCCESS AT SUGAR"
LAND"
sorghum's Future in TeNns-An Industry
That Will HevOIutiOniEe West TeXa"
Farming and Defy DFOuths-
a HOOnl for TeEas.

thence to the "strike pans " thence 20
the "miXer;" thence to the "centrllu-
gals" where all the molasses is thrown
from the sugar by rotary motion OF
immense velocity and thence to the
barrels in the form of sugar, every
grain of which is separate, light in
color, finty aud brilliant.
That Is the process of making sugar
by diffusion, told in SIMPLE language
with no attempt at ornate description
and with a great deal of minor detail
and major technicality left out. If
the public does not understand it,
the remedy lies in visit to Sugar
land" where with its own eyes it may
behold the manipulation, with its own
nose smell the pervasiVe and muItltud-
inous vapor and wet its own trousers
clear up to the waistband,
THE GOOD OF 1T.
The benefits of diffusion are much
more easily appreciated. 1t it, of
course, the object Of the sugar planter
to extract the SaccharIne quality from
the cane. The more Of this the more
sugar. The more sugar, the more
money. The more money, the moro
fun. Under the present mill system
even the best, where the stalk is Passec
between FIVE massive iron rollers anc
mashed AS fiat as the Mills bill, tht
greatest percentage extracted is no
more than Is. In the majority Of IN
stances it is not more than 50, and II
some cases it runs as low as 30 pc
cent. In other words, the planter VIII
uses this method and burns his bag
asse Tor the cane which has bee
ground) burns up all the way tTor
% to 30 per cent Of bis sugar Thl
calculation is made npon an extroc
ton basis Of 100. Theoretically can
contains only 80 per cent Of matter !
solution, 10 per cent being allowed b
fibre. Keeping the 100 basis as sin
pier, by the diffusion process from 8
TO 81 per cent Of saccbarine matter
extracted, the amount remaining
tue pulp after it has gone through tt
cells being practically inaPPreciabI
This is a patent and potent fact whic
the planter takes in at & lance an
y which the outsider can understan
with very little effort When it bj
/. been demonstrated that the thorough
- saturated chips dropped from the Gel
may be dried by mill pressure al
burned, the days ofthe roller will ha'
> passed. And this demonstration W
} come within a year, In fact it M
be said at this date, and with an abs
lutte certainty of the correctness of t
assertion, that the future of the sug
planter is a ditflsed one. II is
salvation. 1t is his only hope.
= will be forced upon him, Passing
cane through rollers and losing ey
Is per cent of bis saccharine mat
an is no Joke. Afflicted in ibis mann
bo he cannot compete With bis more {
88 terprisipg aDd fortunate brother, "
has diffusion batteries of the high
quality, and gets from bis cane
there is in 1t worth having.
n will see staring him ID the face
ID alternative which confronted the cC
brated Luke who was requested
- "shoot or give up the gun" In
expressive language Of Colonel C
bingham: "If be can't arrange it {
J. other way, it will pay him to burn
bis roller mill and 90 into debt fol
diffusion battery"
On the "SugarlaDd" place the 4
roller mill was started on October
and diffusion was in operation by
vember 5. Upto date over 3,0o0,'
. pounds of sugar have been made,
it is expected that by February
no severe freeze Injuries the cane
ip The fields, 100000 pounds
n have been placed in barrels.
- even in the face of this remarks
production 1t brings tears into
colonePs eyes when be thinks Of
- tremendous amount Of sugar be is
"~ ing through the forced operation
bis roller mill. "Pm getting only
Y per cent extracted down there
says, plaiptiyely. He has the 80
latiop Of knowing, however thai
n the face Of countless predictions
II the contrary, be bas made tbe dltfp
~ Of tropical cane q success, and
? too, upon a larger scale than ever
near fore attempted 10 the United 81
or, for that matter, 10 the world.
confident is be Of The permanent y
Of the idea that be 10 alseady fp
- plans for increasing the facilitie
that direction. lie proposes, for
stance, to erect double systep
" carriers, Ross cutters and macera
% that If anything happens TO
the other can be brought into lnl
use with 10 resultant stoppage of
4. erations, The present capacity
! ~ pinch Is 100000 pounds Q day.
d @ INTEREST ~ n.
iESE The sugar industry has undopb
~ i ayoluted q reyol1ted Nothing
~ N exceed ttie interest taken by n
1 as anians il The work of Pioneer