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wlien it was killed by frost, and none of the seed lias ripened. 

 The machine that I used for expressing the juice was shuply 

 two rollers of seven inches diameter and seven inches long, with 

 a crank to each of them, and worked by two men. The rollers 

 were placed one over the other horizontally, and keyed down 

 pretty close ; this machine answered very well for the experi- 

 ment. The cane was passed between these rollers, one and two 

 at a time; it expressed the juice very well, I made some very 

 good samples of Syrup from this unripe cane. Some of it was 

 clarified with lime and some with milk, and the white of an 

 egg. But it took twelve gallons of juice to make 1 gallon of 

 syrup. On the 23d of October, I worked up another lot of cane 

 that grew on higher ground and escaped the frost until the 20th 

 of October. This juice yielded one gallon of syrup to six of 

 juice, of which I herewith furnish a sample. This juice was 

 boiled down without adding anything to clarify. It was placed 

 in an iron kettle and brought to a boiling heat which caused the 

 green color of the juice to separate and rise to the surface in a 

 thick skum ; this I skimmed off and continued to do so as long 

 as anything would rise while boiling, and by this process the 

 juice became clear as water, and after it began to thicken a little 

 it was taken out of the kettle and stirred and then returned to 

 the kettle and boiled down to the thickness of this sample. 



a W. STANDAET. 

 Dodgeville, Nov. 1. 1857. 



JEFFERSON COUNTY. 



Dear Sir : — Having heretofore furnished you with a report 

 of the principal transactions of the Jefferson County Agricultu- 

 ral Society, from the time of its organization to the year 1857, 

 I now send you a synopsis of the most important part of the 

 proceedings of the Society for the present year. 



