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vention of John F. Porter, of Red Wing. A steam evaporator (for 

 information address Densniore Bros., Red Wing.) on the principle 

 that high heat long continued inverts the sugar. The pipes are of 

 copper, and I made on one of them one and one half gallons of syrup 

 per minute on Amber cane juice that tested by sach ten degrees of 

 density, after defection and juice little below boiling point. Having 

 excellent cooling facilities, this syrup by open evaporation, ran sugar 

 of a good grain right from the coolers into the receiving tank, giving 

 us the finest syrup in the United States, and that is saying a good 

 deal. In proof I shall send a jug by express to you. Here is the se- 

 cret: good ripe cane, thorough defection, rapid evaporation, rapid 

 cooling. When made I put in 2^600 gallon tanks. The sugar forms 

 in the tanks and settles, and we draw off the syrup; the sugar is at 

 the bottom. We wait till the summer comes when thermometor is 

 Ho degrees. We can drain this sugar 100 pounds to a batch in centri- 

 fugal and rewash the drained molasses. 



Second — Average production has been so far as my experience goes 

 four pounds per gallon of syrup. The cost has been with me to man- 

 ufacture about six cents per gallon, not including drawing the sugar. 

 I have not worked with special reference for sugar, but it will come 

 without effort. 



The market price the past three years has been 45 cents by the bar- 

 rel and 50 cents by the keg, price of package added. Price paid for 

 cane with seed cut off leaves just enough wilted so as not to extract 

 green matter from them. The seed we feed to milch cows Boil and 

 feed to hogs, making good pork; boiling to a pulp extracts the astrin- 

 gent properties. The begasse we spread direct from the cane mill and 

 when dry place in a rick or stack for stock of all kinds wtiich do well 

 on it. It must be dried well, and I consider it worth as much as 

 timothy hay; never less than ten tons, average twelve and one-half 

 tons per acre — have grown twenty tons. Never lost but two crops in 

 twenty-seven years, and then not an entire failure. Surer than anj' 

 crop I know of to give good returns It cost me to grow forty acres 

 cane to cut, top, and deliver it to mill quarter of a mile, $1 50 per ton. 

 I began September 1st, ended October 1st, only run day time. Run 

 two mills, used about ten and one-half gallons of juice per minute for 

 one and one-half gallons of syrup. If juice was poorer about seven 

 gallons per minute for one gallon of syrup. To lengthen season 

 plant some later; have to use care about frosts. Three degrees below 

 freezing point cooks it some The same cane cut up twenty-four hours 

 before frost loosens the juice cells and prevents rupture, so it is safe 



