254. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. ~. 
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Product. 
12,600 tons, yielding 25 gallons molasses each ............... ', gallons. . 
800,000 gallons molasses, yielding 4 pounds sugar each ........ pounds. . 
pnd 45 per, Cont: MOSSES.) 0s osu - walneal ame ten SpA Re gallons. . 
1,200,000 pounds, at 4 cents ................ pad odes ROUEN et 56 MAM 
£55,000 eallons, at’ 20! Cembs hod sec.) se 9 alee diets ale oye eee eet aie giajaleratalp steve 
18,000 bushels seed, at 40 cents ............ SS ache ne ates Cee oe eae 
GE Pee re ys eel ae ah ood Soule gtehd co gwtana aha a eORS OF AL EG ahr ; 
Cost of production. J 
‘ Cents, cs 
Avsihary houses per’ tons... 0 ix seep oN Pe Se ene 80. 01 a 
MantEeAlnOUSEs MEE LOU) .c.jsice eioiig as Satie Seg ts oles aera 44,25 ss 
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: 124. 26 
Cost of packages, per ton....... Coe ee eT Ce aor 30.00 3 
: 154. 26X12, 000= $18,511, 
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- Farmers’ half, $41,100 or $3.43 per ton; the company’s half, $41,100, less $18,511, 
$22.589 for interest, insurance, superintendence, etc. 5 
In working 1,000 tons a day there should be ten 100 to 175 ton batteries anda 
large central house. Auxiliary houses of this size would cost complete about $20,000 ° 
each and the central house would cost without bone-black $90,000. There would 
also be a corresponding reduction in working expenses. wt 
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EXPERIMENTS AT LAWRENCE, LA. i 
CANE-SLICER. 
In order to secure a multiple feed for a single cutter it was deter- _ 
mined to adopt the horizontal disk system. Cutters of this kind not | 
being made in this country, it was necessary to purchase one in Hu- 
rope. 
he cutter built by the Sangerhauser Company, of Sangerhausen, 
Germany, was selected. This cutter was guarantied to give from 200 
to 250 tons of chips per twenty-four hours, suitable for diffusion, * 
This slicing machine, having been tried in Demerara in the early — 
summer, proved inefficient. To guard against failure from lack of a 
roper cutter another machine, which had already proved successful 
in Java, was ordered from the Sudenburg Company of Magdeburg. - 
The small cutter with a horizontal disk, tried at Fort Scott last ~~ 
year, was also sent to New York for certain alterations, and thence 
to Magnolia. Unfortunately the new knives sent with the machine ~— 
had not been properly tempered, and this prevented the use of this 
cutter for the preliminary experiments. ‘ 
Mr. R. Sieg, of New Orleans, who had had large experience in 
working cane-cutters in Louisiana in 1874 and the following years, 
was also instructed to build a cutter with vertical disk and multiple 
feed. We found, however, that the time at his disposal was too 
short to permit the building of such a machine as he desired, 
Qn October 6 I received the following instructions: . 
Youare hereby instructed to go to Fort Scott, Kans., and after inspecting the work 
of the Department there in the manufacture of sugar, you will proceed to Lawrence, 
