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Identifier: agricultureforbe00burk (find matches)
Title: Agriculture for beginners
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Burkett, Charles William, 1873- (from old catalog) Stevens, Frank Lincoln. (from old catalog) Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889
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Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. Transferring Cane from Wagon to Trolley or megass, and can be used as fuel under the boilers,or made into wrapping paper. The juice is usually treatedwith sulphur and lime, and then boiled. This treatmentbrings to the surface a heavy blanket of scums, which isremoved and, with .the settlings, sent through the filterpress, where the juice is extracted and the solid matter(cake) retained in the press. This clarified juice is nowevaporated into syrup, either in open vessels or in multipleeffects. The syrup is now drawn into the vacuum pan,where it is cooked to grain at a high vacuum and a low SUGAR CANE 325 temperature. This mixture of sugar and molasses (calledmasse cuite) is drawn into a centrifugal machine withperforated wire gauze sides placed within a solid ironvessel. By a rapid rotation of this machine, the liquidmolasses is thrown through the wire gauze into the outervessel, while the sugar is retained in the centrifugal. Byusing water or other washes, any grade of sugar may be
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Fig. 280. Machine for transferring Cane from Cars to Carrier made. By again cooking the molasses separated from thefirst sugar, second sugar, usually termed seconds, maybe obtained. The molasses from the second sugar maybe made to yield third sugar, or thirds. There are a few open-kettle sugar houses left in Loui-siana. These differ from the above in that the syrup iscooked directly in open pans or kettles to a heavy densityand placed in vessels (called coolers) to crystallize. Ina few days this crystallized mass may be either potted 326 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS in hogsheads or run through a centrifugal machine asdescribed above. Open-kettle sugar and molasses arethus obtained, the latter fetching a high price on accountof its delicious flavor and agreeable aroma. Write to the Louisiana Sugar Experiment Station,Audubon Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, for bulletinson sugar cane.

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