, 1893-05-13
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Christiaasted, St. CrNix.
Saturday, 18th May 1898.

has with the addition of some sheds to-
towards the west, been made to house the
grinding machinery and the apparatus for
cleaning and clarifying the juice. The old
still house, which lies east and west across
the south end of the old boiling house, hasbeen
enlarged, by the addition of about eleven feet
of height to the walls, to contain the vaccu-
um pan and the triple effect. Distilling has
net been tiven up; q new still house ia being
erected at the south west eorner of the present
buildings. "+ -
The canes are received at the north end of
the works, where there is a wsigh-house with
s~ealesIon to which the carts are driven. The
draft beasts are not taken out, the weight is
merely lifted of them by a supportin. rod
resting on the scale platform. The canes,
having been weighed, are thrown ON the
ground, from whence they are lifted by la
bourers and placed on..a carrier, which carries
them up to the cane-crusher (~Krajewski's).
This orusher, a drawing of which may be
seen in the advertising pages of the "Loulsi-
ana Planter" is a comparatively new lnven-
tion. The surface Of it's rollers differs from
that of the usual sugar mill rollers in being
composed of q number of angular projections
and hollows which fit into each other, running
along the length of the roller in a zigzag
fashion. This machine, which is driven by
an engine of about IL horse power, extracts
about 40 per cent of the juice. and the crush.
ed canes are then passed to the mill proper,
which is driven by a separate engine of about 10
horse power, and brings the total extraction #
tho juice up to 81 per cent at present. The
grinding machinery is not, like the green
msgass furnaces, quite new, but has already
taken off several crops at Lower Love last
Year its average extraction was 683 per cent,
- -,zA 80, tlo Ill Stat. 6 h,4,t,y
in Santa Cruz, before the days Of the Central
Factory, when we had few mills that could
get out over 55 per cent of Juice. At Lower
Love the Juice goes at once from the mill to a
"iuioe heater and from thence to cleaning
pans, where it is tempered and SKINNED after
which it is pumped up TO the. CHARTERS. The
pumping engine IL one OF the points OF The
works. All the pumping OF the establish
ment is done at one spot, where a large englne
drives twelve pumps at once, SIX ON each side,
as its ponderous beam moves up aud down,
These pumps Include the pumps for the
vacuum pan. and triple effect. The
triple effect is Rillieux'a. The pans
as we'll as the vacuum pan itself are
all horizontal and look more like boilers
than evaporating pans. We are told that when
complete they will be covered In a way that
will economic heat and at the same time add
to their appearance. Inc vacuum pan Is
capable Of turning out Is tons ut a strike.
which would give about Is hogsheads of
sugar, A strike can be taken off under seven
hours, so that, without night work, 80 hogs
heads per day could be made, assuming that
the supply Of juice could DO kept up and that
all other parts of the establishment were
working smoothly. The sugar is struck into
wagons and when hard is put through a mix
or, where teeth revolving on an axis break up
the Jumps and with the aid of a little molasses
prepare the mass for the csntrifugals of which
there are four (Wsston's latest improved.
From the osntrifugals the sugar, as at the
Central Factory, drops on to an endless band
(the conveyor) and is dipped up by the tin
clippers on another endless band the ~elevator)
and carried to an upper floor, from which,
however. it Immediately descends into sacks,
held open by an ingenious contrivance, and
she sacks are then sewn up and marked, ready
for shipment.
So muoA fol-. the course of the sugar; we
may turn back TO notice some other points.
The large chimney by which the draft in
the furnaces is maintained is'worth a look.
It's Infect high and 7 feet square inside.
The foundation 10 II feet deep and "a feet
square at the base. At the ground level the
width is reduced to about 30 feet. The stone
work 10 over 6 feet thick at the bottom and
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