, 1894-08-01

N1NO lAC DI1IGS5 ttt Q ~ AON0S
leave everywhere thick and rich cane. Inc
principal point is to have a rational %cultlva-
ton that gives the most possible sugar. IL
is necessary alto that the planters associate
themselves to sustain e sugar factory OF
sufficient dimensions and not HAYES number OF
small factories that the general ex penses Will
crush, and that are accordingly unable TO
maintain a technical personnel. 1t is neces-
sary by association TO support factories large
enough to be able to employ a choice person
nel-a chemist with his labor atory and all
that can enable to work in the factory in a
normal and economical fashion. Finally,
its operating methods and material must be
select.
You have juices purer than ours, more
easily coagulated than ours profit by them
and do not frivolously waste richness that
nature gave You. But bewar of losing
the native qualities of your juice which
allow you easy and economical work. What
is required in the extraction department
of the cane sugar factory? 1t requires
a system that allows the extraction from
the bagasse Of the most sugar posi-
bic in such manner as not to lose too
much of the sugar principle, as is done for
the beet. The chemical qualities of the juice
must be preserved which allow easy
work. Finally it is necessary thai after
this treatment the bagasse be cOmbustlble,
and that the factory be arranged in such a
manner that the bagasse alone will serve as
fuel for all the work. Wood and coal you
must not buy, since you have the bagasse COM
bustible, free.
Take your canes to your mills, as these
mills have cost you very high, and are good
instruments, as they leave you bagasse
burnable. But between the two mills an
sveeten your bagasse. You will then have
vo,,r X,;oo DrottU normal aaCV to q toCat0
with lime alone orwith the addition of small
amounts of soluble phosphates, ehrmanite, that
succeeds so we'll in MauritiuS and Indies. NO
sulphuric acid, which burns the juice and
clogs your triple effects. You will thus have
presel we'd your bagasse to burn III your gen
orators.
Having the juice worked, filtered, it must
be evaporated, etc, and for this we we're say
ing employ the bagasse alone. This problem
is easy to solve. The calculation is easily
made in estimating the caloric power of the
bagas,e according to its dampness. and EN-
ploying such a system of evaporation as IS
adapted to the different circumstances. 10
such a factory a triple effect will suffice,
whilst others will have to employ asquadruple
effect, with it's cooking at multiple Ell ect, ana
the heating according to the system taught
and employed in Europe. Hence all the
innovations indispensable to the cane sugar
industry, if it wishes to come out OF the bad
course it is pursuing, are easy to introduce
do not present grave difficulties, only CLAIMS
on the planters energy and good will"
To fully realize tho wisdom OF the
above most excellent advice is to men-
tally admit the necessity of, and determine
10 have recourse to. intensive culture IL
possible, and to ever be on the alert to
adopt all the genuine improvements IN me-
thods of manufucture-as to act otherwise
will be to very seriously jeopardlze the chaH-
cen Of financial success in either branch
of the industry. 70 continue to lndif-
ferently cultivate exhausted fields will be
to constantly stare poverty i'll the face, and
one of two remedies, or both must be had re-
course to-irstly,a rotation at somewhat.S snort
intervals, with the best adapted leguminous
plant by which atmospheric nitrogen Can be
accumulated in the soil; and secondly, Its
enrichment from time to time according to
plant requirements with commercial and
other manures, by which cheap canes relative
" rich in sucrose, can be grown by the pro-
Queer.
The intelligent direction of the fertilization
of the canes destined for the factory, wheth-
er to be purchased or home grown, will prove
an important factor in the annual output OF
sugar. The dissemination of useful lnforma-
ton and the results of practical experience on