From Soil to Sack 



Steel rollers are now used almost 

 exclusively in the larger mills and 

 the number of rollers has increased 

 from one pair to three and from three 

 to nine. Many of the mills have 

 shredders or corrugated crushers, 

 through which the cane is passed 

 before conveying to the smooth 

 rollers. Cane prepared in this way 

 yields from eighty to ninety per cent, 

 of its total juice, while still higher 

 percentages are secured by saturating 

 the bagasse, as the crushed cane is 

 called, with water and passing it 

 through the mill several times. 



The process, despite this lengthy 

 description, is simplicity itself. All 

 that is required is to extract the 

 juice from the cane by crushing 

 and with the present advance of 

 engineering and invention in this 

 line, the day is in sight when prac- 

 tically all of the available juice can 

 be separated and saved. 

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