, 1913-01-01

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in Germany some twenty years ago and has
been successfully making pure white sugars
ever since. This same process has been
utilized in Canada in it's beet sugar factories.
and Of course, they have been disposed to
make efforts to handle cane sugars in the
same way, although their process begins
with cane sugar, and not with cane Juice.
Beet sugar Is singularly free of gluco~t,
while cane sugar always contains more or
less OF 1t and cane Juice contains still NOR,
We shall discuss first the success in re-
hnlng cane sugars in Canada, and later some
of the other features of the business.
The beet sugar factory at Wallaceburg
when used rs Il sugar refinery has q capaci-
ty of 200 tons of refined sugar per day Of
twenty-four hours. There is said to DO
another factory, located at Marine City, Mi
chigan, of still less capacity and that a third
plant is to be erected at Toledo, Ohio. It
IS said that at Wallaceburg no lime or SUI
phHrOus acid gas is used ID the final processes
with cane sugar, although they are uoel
with beet sugar, but IN the final processes
more attention is given to filtration aud tie
thorough publication Of the cane syrup, in
GLIDING its deterioration, are secured III
this way. The results seem to have been
satisfactory and the sugars produced at
WalIaceburg, as we'll as at Marine City, Nj
chigan, have been sold in competition with
sugar turned out by tue Canadian sugar re-
inery, which has q full bone black flLerirg
equipment. 1t is stated that the cane su-
CARS brought equal prices with the white
beet sugars.
The advantage of this process of sugar
refining in q beet sugar house is that the
beet factories already have all the machin-
cry ready to handle raw sugar in this way,
excepting the netting pans and q few minor
machines, the cost of which would be but
u few hundreds of dollars, aud with this
limited outlay these beet factories can handle
raw sugars to their heart's content through
out all the dull season, provided, always, that
they can make any money at it.
The beet sugar factories being located
back in the interior, it becomes quite q pro-
blem as to how they can receive their freights
of foreign sugars and distribute their refined
product. All these matters, however, are
yielding to the good sense of the railroad
management and can doubtless be adjusted.
The next most serious problem ~ the ques-
ton of the loss in this process OF refining.
1t has always been thought that in refining
raw cane sugars the bone black process
would give the largest possible yield. III
liquOring sugars with q white liquor, or by
washing them white III the centrlfugals, the
losses are ordinarily greater and yet by this
Wiese process it was found in certain expe-
riments that from IO0fb. of raw sugar hearty
49, ID. of refined sugar were obtained. 1t
was estimated at Wa!lacehurg that in hand
ling approximately Is million pounds of Java
sugar the manufacturing cost of producing
100b. of refined sugars reached 4l-2c. The
resulting sugar was sold in, successful COM
petition with trst-class refined sugar and
seemed to give satisfaction. All this speaks
well for this method of production, but by
it cane sugar is still denied the advantage of
being made in one continuous process direct
ly from the JUICE of the sugar-cnne. DR. Won
Lipm8nn's method in Germany revoIu-
tionized tie production of pure white sugar
there III many OF then great sugar factories,
although some still adhere to raw sugar pro-
duction. 1t has been the dream Of thou
sands of sugar planters everywhere that the
day would cone when with our improved
mechanism, our better methods of decolO-
rizing by the proper use Of sulphur OF by
improved methods of filtration, we should b9
able to produce pure white sugars without
the cost of rehandling or remelting, all of
which go to make the expenses Of sugar-re-
fnin and all Of which can practically lie
saved in the handling OF cane juice in tie