128 THE CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 
volving; cast-iron flange, with stem for journal and 
crank, bolted on the heads; finish cylinder—one four 
feet long would, if turned by two hands, clean fifty to 
seventy-five bushels perday. A plank breastwork should 
be set up for the cleaners to rest their hands on while 
erasping as much as convenient to hold, and the cylinder 
rolling over from them will strip off rapidly all the sced. 
This should be done before the boiling is commenced, so 
that the seed can be mixed into the hot scum taken from 
the clarifier and kettles, which combined, will fatten hogs 
or cattle, beyond doubt, more rapidly than any other feed 
known. The starch in the seed, added to the sugar in 
the scum, must constitute capital food. Should there 
prove to be a surplus, it may be preserved for a consider- 
able time in cisterns well cemented and deep, where fer- 
mentation will be slow; but the mass must be allowed to 
get cool before being put in. Such cisterns will become 
useful for storing the syrup, should it prove profitable as 
an alcohol crop, as they would be cheap and safe reposi- 
tories for it until the season and market demanded it, 
when it could be raised by pump, and with one set of 
casks, hauled away and emptied, returned, and refilled, 
thereby saving much expense for casks. In this manner 
I learn syrups are often kept in the large sugar districts 
of the West Indies.” 
