The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-25
SUGAR REFINERY FACTS.
MIR. TiIImnn Presents Them in a
Second Article.

Second Article.
onjtman. Ca, June 4.-Editor Morning
News: The great deslderatum with
the farmers and merchants who are de-
lighted beyond their powers to express
their gratitude to Savannah for consider
ing the question of providing home
market for their surplus syrup is, "can
they get ready in time to consume the
increasing crop?" They may rest assur-
ed that the capitalists who may be in
terested In the plant once they
arrange their finances, which VIII
not require a great while, win push
the factory to completion by the first OF
December, which will be in ample time
for the incoming crop. The farmers must
bear In mind that in order to get 20 cents
per gallon for their syrup they must
bring it up to fun standard grades; this
they can all do by giving the proper at
tention In boiling.
An Average Crop for South Georgia
An average crop for South Georgia is
about 60 gallons Of good syrup per acre,
when good plantation mills are used for
extracting the juice. When first-class
mills, run by steam power, is used the
output is % to 33l5 per cent. greater, But
600 gallons equals $120 per acre. A farm
er using a one-plow animal can cultivate
twenty acres set in cane with much
more ease and not holt of the expense
that twenty acres In cotton will be. The
gathering and making it into syrup Will
not be any more-if as much-as the
same number of acres in cotton. Twenty
acres, at 600 gallons per acre and % cents
per gallon, shows a gross income to the
one-horse farmer of 81, AGO.
A word More to the Farmers.
If they will procure a lot of green moss
and boil it in their sugar kettles so as
to thoroughly kill it, and then wash and
pick 1t to free it of the fuzzy substance
and leaves, and then pack closely In
| tub or half barrel In which there are sew
eral holes bored in the bottom as a re-
! ceptacle for the Juice as il comes from the
mill, they will not only free il of all float
ing foreign particles, but filter out a very
| large proportion of the non-sugar contents
and coloring matter SO that the Juice
| passing through the moss is as clear and
| colorless as water The tub or half bar
| rel can be set over a vat which will re-
ceive the juice and through pipes can be
carried to the open pan, evaporator or
steam vats. Syrup made by this process
has never been known to sour or fer
ment Every farmer should procure
| enough moss so as to keep a fresh sup
| ply on hand, and the moss should be thor
oughly washed after each days grinding.
| as 1t naturally becomes elogsed and re-
| Quires renewing or washing as the Juice
adhering to 1t may become liable to
sour over night, under which circumstance
it Is necessary to replenish the filter with
fresh or washed moss before beginning In
| the morning.
A Question for the Refincrs to Con-
slider.
In my first article l based nv calcula-
| tons on the output of a $15OOOO plant.
But have recently received a letter from
| a gentleman of Savannah, in which he
expressed himself as being in favor OF
beginning with a 100000 plant This is
wise suggestion. A 100000 plant will
turn out 10000 pounds of clarified sugar
J per day and save the difference in ex-
! pense of labor, as the same force. chemist
included, as win be required in a $4,000
pound per day plant will be sufficient TO
operate the 10000-pound factory The
relative ratio stands thus: A bloodhound
house can refine sugar from standard sy-
rup at 95c per 100 pounds, as against a
50,000-pound house, at IS cents per 100
pounds Of sugar, net cost. The same pow
| er and amount of fuel is required for eth
er size plant. Hence the profit is propor-
| tionately greater on the 100000 plant. There
is much greater profit in reducing the
| syrup to sugar for the refiner than raw
sugar, which sells at 915 cents per pound.
a Factory Established at savannah.
VIII have all the sugar cane belt Of
Georgia as well as that of Florida ana
| Alabama, on and near the Plant system
Lines of Railway in Alabama. to draw
from So, then, five to seven hundred
thousand barrels the first year is not only
a conservative estimate. but rather I'M
der than over the mark: but I will saw
$4,000 barrels, al 30 gallons average to the
barrel, which shows an aggregation Of Il .
100000 gallons, which at seven pounds of
grahulated sugar to the gallon, shows an
output of 105, 100000 pounds. This much 10
commence with. In my next article win
show the cost and profit per acre in grow
| ing the sugar beet. Joseph Tilln1an