The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-11-08

reached the grsnulsting or crystsllising point,
| and the proper time TO cease boiling. The
| sugar boiler" is responsible position, and
pays much better than any other position In
the mill, the one at the mill where am en-
ployed receiving $500 per month and expenses.
When the boiling is finished bell s rung.
| iron cars are run under the vacuum pan, F"
| lever is pressed, and the mass, called o
| strike" is run out into the cars to be wheeled
| to the hot room and left for a period to granu-
late, after which it is poured into the mixer"
a receptacle where there is q revolving shaft
| with arms that thoroughly mix it, and the mass
| is run down into centrifugal mills below.
| These centrifugal mills are cylinders about
three feet in diameter having fine wire netting
attachment inside through which q sugar grain
cannot penetrate, and rcvolve with lightning
like rapidity, keeping the crystallized sugar
grains inside. but allowing the molasses to run
through. The men in charge of the mills fire.
quently discharge the contents of large
syringe of bueing solution into the sugar TO
whiten it; it often occurs that there is too
much put in, which gives the sugar blue tint.
After it has obtained the proper degree of
purity the centrifugal is stopped. the sugar is
scraped ont and goes up to the tanning room y;
there it is thrown on big revolving fan with
arms like a windmill, and is scattered and dried
by the air. When this is finished it goes
through the last process, the bsrreling, by run
ming down a shute into barrels at the other
end; it is then packed by steam. and cooper
Immediately hammers on the head. The bar
rel is then weighed, the average weight being
300 pounds, and the serial number. weight and
kind of sugar is stamped upon the head. 1t is
now ready TO be hauled to the nearest boat and
shipped to New Orleans, the grand central
market.
The majority of the mills make fine grade
of brown white sugar. The mill whore /
have been employed made little less than
100000 pounds last years. Only few manu-
facture grannlated sugar. Most of the mills
have chemist now, as the planters have found
with their scientific advice they can extract
much more sugar from the cane than by the
old-fashiOned methods, aud so put more money
in their pockets. The chemist tests samples of
sugar, moiasseS, strip, and cane juice TO find
the per cent. "sucrose." The instrument used
is quite a delicate instrument the "posri-
scope" in some respects similar to a microscope;
and with chemicals he tests for the per cent. Of
glucose; then. after finding the specific
gravity of the solution, he can calculate the
actual number of pounds of sugar which ton
of cane will yield.
Everyone on the plantation believes i'm plicitly
in the old Louisiana Lottery. Once a month
the agent comes around with his bunch of
tickets, the manager purchases his S. ticket,
the oveTseers 81 tick cts and the negroes 25-eent
ones. One gray-hesded overseer, who had
been buying quantities of tickets unsuccessfully
ever since the war, wrote TO Gen. Beauregard,
formerly at the head of the Lottery, that he
had been buying tickets all his life, and now
had not enough money left to wad a shotgun,
and to please send him lucky ticket. The
old General, in jolly mood, replied: eff you
keep on buying tickets you soon will not have
enough money left to wad popgun."
J. W. p, Chemist.