Cuban Cane Sugar 



the manufacture of rum, whiskey, 

 or other spirituous liquors, or for the 

 manufacture of alcohol. There are 

 many other markets for molasses, 

 including the manufacture of stock 

 foods, its use as a fertilizer, etc., but 

 its conversion into alcohol and spirits 



represents its chief use. 



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The raw sugar from the centrif- 

 ugals is still unfit for use, and must 

 now be refined; in refining, it is 

 first dissolved in hot water, the 

 liquor thus formed being filtered 

 through cotton bags to remove all 

 insoluble impurities. It is next run 

 into iron cylinders packed with 

 charred bones, bone charcoal having 

 a peculiar affinity for the soluble 

 impurities and leaving the sugar, 

 after filtration, in a purified and 

 decolored condition. This purified, 

 colorless, liquid sugar is now boiled 

 in vacuum pans, refilled as evapora- 

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