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pan for evaporating the juice, constitute the outfit for 

 making syrup. This equipment is very cheap and can be 

 easily operated by a small family. While these small mills 

 rarely extract more than one half of the juice in the cane, 

 the syrup made by them is exceedingly palatable and 

 usually commands a good price in our markets. 



In our large sugar houses nine-roller mills, with a 

 crusher in front, clarifiers, evaporators, multiple effects, 

 vacuum pans, centrifugals, pumps, filter presses, boilers 



FIG. 278. A COMMON TYPE OF SYRUP FACTORY 



and engines, tanks and cars, are found. A modern, up-to- 

 date sugar house, capable of handling from five hundred 

 to one thousand tons of sugar cane, will cost from one 



