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from the tilt pan to the reservoir supplying the vacuum 
pan when the boiling heat rises to about 220° F. 
In large operations where it is desirable to increase the 
evaporative capacity of the range without unduly increas- 
ing its length, it may be divided conveniently into two, 
placed upon separate parallel flues opening into the same 
smoke stack, the pan comprising the first and second divi- 
sions, A and B being placed upon furnace walls sufficiently 
elevated above those supporting the pans C and D, to 
permit the syrup to flow into the head of C from the 
filtering box. The length of each half of the divided 
range may be increased to ‘at least 24 feet, by increasing 
the length of all the divisions except A. 
Thé expensive vacuum finishing pan, although the best 
for use in large sugar factories, is not equally well adapted 
to the sphere of operations within which sorghum sugar ° 
production will ordinarily be conducted. For working 
up a crop of less than 75 acres of cane, undertaken by 
ordinary farm hands, no better apparatus is needed than 
the double evaporating range above described. Upon it 
a golden syrup, unexcelled either in color or flavor by the 
best products of the refineries, may be made with but little 
expenditure of money, time, or labor, and as much sugar 
as will be sufficient to satisfy any reasonable expectation, 
equal in all respects, either for sale or for domestic purposes, 
to the article which during the past fifty years has been 
most in demand for common use. If the intelligent farmer, 
at a season of comparative leisure, expends in the produc- 
tion of a given amount of sugar proportionally more time 
and care than the large manufacturer, he needs to spend 
but little money in the purchase and repair of costly ap- 
paratus, which can be used only a part of the year. Within 
his limited sphere of operations, growing and manufactur- 
