SYRUP. - ie 
NECESSITY FOR CLEANLINESS AND SYSTEM. 
One requisite to ensure the production of good, clean 
syrup, is that the greatest cleanliness should be observed 
throughout every stage of the manufacture. The mill, 
boilers, ladles, buckets, troughs, reservoir, and every piece 
of apparatus, and each implement used in the syrup mak- 
ing should be cleaned off as soon as they are no longer in 
actual use. The canes should be stripped clean of all dry 
or green leaves, and when convenient, any lumps of dirt or 
other impurities be knocked off, before the canes are passed 
through the mill. Only ripe and sound canes should be 
used ; and the ground about the mill should be neatly 
swept, and all rubbish removed. If the boiling is done 
under a shed, or in a building, it should be as neatly 
maintained, and all things should be as systematically 
arranged as if it were a private parlor; for not only is 
the introduction of impurities into the syrup prevented, 
but the operator and his assistants can, at the desired 
moment, at once lay hands upon any one of the instru- 
ments needful at the various stages of the operation. 
COLONEL PETERS’ RESULTS. 
The yield of juice and of syrup obtained by Colonel 
Peters, were as follows: 
BEST EIGHTH OF AN ACRE. 
Yield of juice from 8315 canes, : - 253 gallons. 
Yield of syrup from 2538 gallons juice, - 58 gallons. 
Rate of syrup per acre, - - - - 468 gallons. 
