114 THE CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 
extend, and chop off the rest of the stalk, saving the 
seeds for future planting, if the cane proves to be of good 
quality ; if not, give them to the chickens. 
The next thing is to extract the juice from the stalks 
or canes. ‘This must be done by pressing them between 
rollers. If there is a cider mill on the premises, it will 
be all-sufficient; pass them through it just as you would 
crush apples, catching the juice in some clean vessel with 
as few chips or dirt in it as possible. 
A VERY CHEAP MILL. 
If there be no cider mill in the neighborhood, you 
must make a shift to construct one yourself, or get the 
nearest carpenter to do so; nothing but wood being re- 
quired for all you have to do. The way to go about it 
is as follows: Choose some straight pieces of maple, or 
any hard wood, twelve or fourteen inches across, and 
saw one piece off thirty inches long, and the other forty- 
eight inches. These are to make your two rollers, and 
as nearly round as you can get the log, so much less 
trouble will there be to fashion the work. Having got 
your wood, take the blocks to the nearest carpenter, and 
tell him to make you two journals on the ends of the 
shortest piece, two and a half inches less in diameter than 
the block will be when made perfectly round. If he has 
a turning lathe he will be able to do it all in a couple of 
hours. Let him make the axles or journals seven inches 
long each. You have now one roller finished; the other 
is like it, only after making a journal on one end, he 
measures along the same length as the other roller, which 
