The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-05-13

make sugar aessF the canes are
Sleaased Of the tops md leaves and
cut in small pieces, they are firal
bruised either with perpandicula.
stone running around, as apples. 70
make older, OF olives 70 make oil, OF
between two aSles strongly capped
with iron horizontally placed and
turned contrary waye aud then pressed
as grapes or oliyea are. The juice
thus pressed out 10 boiled ia three
| separated oauldrons, one after the
| ether. In the third eauldron it be.
comes thick and black, and is then
put into ooniotl pots which at the bot-
tom have 9 little hole stopped only
with coarse and foul sugar. Thess
pats are covered Shhs ssaa. AL! :t.!h =::.h ssssss ssssss
OF paste made Of kind Of earth called
the Spanish gritty which is good to
take spots out Of clothes and which
cake sinks as the sugar sinks. These
I, pots are put into others OF another
shape by the hole at the vertix and
the juius drains down through the
coarse sugar at the bottom. It drains
for fvc or six months, il which time
the sugar in the conioal pots grows
hard and allthe juice has run out in
to the other pots. This juice is boil
ed again SO long as it is good for any,
thing, but at last it makes only foul
red sugar that will never be any bet
ter. The .nonisal loaves Of sugar after
they are taken out are set to dr. ain
over the same pots for fifteen days.
To make the sugar more white they
must boil it again, but about oae-sixth
is lost every time. They never refine
the sugar more than three or four
times, and they use for the refining Of
it the whites Of eggs,. putting two OF
three dozen into o cauldron. When
the process is finished it forms hard
and white in nine or ten days"
It was from suoh crude beginnings
as fhesoothat our present perfected
method,. Of sugar making have grown.
While tne Spsnisrds were carrying
the sugar cane to the West Indies the
Portuguese were likewise employed
in5their own colonies Of Brazil. Thus
far, ,as we have traced the course of
the sugar cane from its earliest days
to the present. one would naturally.
gain tho idea that the West Indies
,, and South America owe their g. sat
staple to the work Of the European
nations above mentioned. It has not
been shown SO far that the sugar
cane was indigenous to these countries
and the, western hemisphere. The
bestsauthorities, however, give good
reasons for the belief that this idea is
incorrect. While early records on
this as on most subjects are vague
and incomplete, yet there is, every
reason TO believe that in some Of the
West India Islands sugar cane was
found already established when the
first European stepped upon their
shores. 4;
It is mors than . belief, Il is q GER
taintss that the plant was found four
ishing il tie South SEQ Islands by the
earliest navigatoEs and that the ma
tires Of those islands knew now TO ex-
press the Juice from the cane. They
did not. however, know its capacities
for sugar making.
h Some of the 0taheits sugar cane
was brought 20 Jamaiea and planted
Nside BY side with the cane Of European
origin. at once il became apparent
that the Otaheite cane was Of differ
ant species from that Of the .,old In
dian cane. The stranger cane yielded
an astonishing increase Of sugar over
that Of the Indian. It not only yield. |
ed more sugar, but Of q better quail
ty. {
rs Sir John Laforey, who introduced
the Otaheite cnne into the island Of
Antigua says: The canes are much
larger than those Of our islands, their
color aud that Of their leaves differs
from ours. They ore. ripe enough to
grind 1.-The age of ten months, and
theysstand dry weather better than
ours, and are not liable to be attacked
by that destructive insect called the
borer..''ss s. s 81 J. ass
The first explorers Of the interior
of America found sugar cane growing