Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-11-04
Sugar Notes.

, UOlSuCu ILL., zUO pOuQUS. 106f0 QaQ D66l
shipped previous to this. 81, 800 pounds
making the total shipments up to date
423 500 pounds. This shipment abou
cleaned up the mill, there being abou
1900 pounds of unbagged sugar OF
hand.
The centrifugals are running righ
along, and the little pile of sugar j.
growing rapidly. There is enough siruE
in the not room to keep the centrifugal.
busy for week if no more strip should
be made.
Everything about the mill was run
ming at full capacity yesterday morn
ing, though the cutter had been idle
about two days, waiting for cane, which
has been coming in rather slowly. Some
of the farmers have delivered all the
merchantable cane they had; others
have been busy with wheat and Other
crops, and thus, while there is plenty OF
cane on hand to supply the mill, it has
not come in rapidly.
The yaryan, which is built for a triple
effect, is in reality only double effect
as first one section and then another is
closed in order to be cleaned This
cleaning is an every day affair, and
takes great deal of time, besides low.
ering the capacity of the whole mill
1t will be remedied next season.
The Larned Eagle Optic says: 1.-Two
hundred and fifty tons of sugar per da,
is large output, but that is what the
Medicine Lodge mill is doing" The
E-O mistakes cutting $50 tons of cane
for making $50 tons of sugar.
The big silo hole is full of leaves, and
is being trampled down by horses We
guess this Is the largest silo hole in the
world. If anybody knows of one larger.
we would like to hear of it. Ours is
about $50 feet long. Is feet deep, IL feet
wide at the bottom, and 80 feet wide az
the top. There Will be many tons of
good fodder wasted at the mill because
the hole cannot receive it.
AT the experimental station but lit
tie is being done, except to clean up
everything. An attempt was made
Monday, to run through a lot of Fort
Scott seconds, but it was not successful
The boys did not want to take the re-
sponsibility of monkeying with it, and
none of the experts were here, though
they were expected yesterday.
There are about 10000 pounds of SUI
gar on hand at the experimental sta
tion. 1t will probably be sold to the
big mill.
The following article from the pen of
Prof. Swenson we find in the Louisiana
Planter:
ut is now about two weeks since the
government experiment station began
operations and already most important
results have been obtained both in the
field and factory. The crop itself is one
of the most important features of these
experiments, and plainly indicates the
great possibilities of sorghum cane
when grown under Intelligent direction.
The experimental farm occupies 80
acres, divided into Is plots of 2 acres
each. The rest of the land is devoted
| to margins at ends and sides and alleys
between plots, each plot being separat-
ed by ten foot alley. The seed used
for the planting of this cane was select
from only such of last years canes,
grown at Sterling, las showed by analysis
the highest sugar content and this to-
Gether with good cultivation has pro-
duced crop OF astonishing richness.
several varieties giving normal juice
as rich in sugar as sugar cane. But the
most interesting part of the work is
done at the factory where the sugar is
made and the results of the analyses OF
the cane are here verified in most
practical way. The factory is complete
in every particular and Of ample capa-
city so that all results obtained are on
practical scale. The plant and
machinery was built for the Depart
ment of Agriculture by the Fl. Scott
Foundry and Machine Works, and
consists of the most modern sugar
machinery. The process as tar as the
making of the strip is the same as i:
used in the sorghum sugar factories II
this state, the cane being cleaned anc
reduced to shreds before it enters the
diffusion battery. The battery is Cir
cular in form, consisting of IL cells
each cell having a capacity of 80
pounds of cane. The juice goes from
the battery to the CHARTERS, where mucl
of the impure matter is removed. From
there it goes to the triple effect evapor
ators where the juice is concentrated
to strip. At this stage begins the new
process developed by DIR. Wiley, ant
which will undoubtedly be the saliva
ton of the sorghum sugar industry. A
is we'll known, the great enemy of tn
sorghum sugar maker is the larg,
/ quantity of gum contained in the sor
| ghum juice which binders the crystaliz
alton of sugar. DIR, Wiley has demon
strated, however, that if to gallon O
sirup at 55 deg. brix. gallon of 95 pc
i. cent. alcohol is added, practically al
the gums are precipitated, and by
J simple process of filtration are entirel
separated from the sugar, the latter be
! ing soluble in weak alcohol passin
through the cloths of the filter Will
: the gums are retained in the shape O
hard cakes between the cloths. Tn
alcohol Is next entirely recovered b
distillatlon, the loss of alcohol bein
| confined to the filterpress. The com
paratively pure strip remainingis crys
talized while the alcohol can be use,
over and over again. By this process
40 pounds of first sugar per ton of can
has been obtained, and the second crys
talization will propably bring the vel
up to 200 per ton, while the total vel,
of sugar heretofore obtained at the fac
tories this state, has not exceeded a
average of over IS pounds per ton. a.