CHAPTER XX V. 
SUGAR MAKING AT HOME. 
Adaptation of the System herein recommended to Operations of 
Different Degrees of Magnitude—Outlines of a Method designed 
to meet the wants of the Farmer who cultivates and works up 
a Crop of Fifteen or Twenty Acres of Cane. 
No process of sugar manufacture can be considered 
complete, or is well adapted to general introduction, that 
cannot be applied to operations of very different degrees 
of magnitude. Itis neither possible nor desirable here to 
detail the various modifications to which varying condi- 
tions and circumstances may give rise, but ordinary intel- 
ligence and good judgment will readily supply them. A 
general plan only can be indicated, the essential features of 
the method to be used pointed out, and the apparatus and 
means necessary to the attainment of the desired ends de- 
scribed. The growth of this new brancb of industry will 
doubtless in many places give rise to large establishments, 
supplanting to some extent more limited individual opera-_ 
tions, yet it must be remembered that it is with the latter 
that the success of the whole enterprise is at present iden- 
tified. 
It was only after many years of trial of mills propelled 
by animal power and inexpensive apparatus that the sugar 
industry of Louisiana was established upon a solid basis ; 
and notwithstanding that the most elaborate and expensive 
machinery has of late years been in use there, small plant- 
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