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night and day, with two sets of hands ; then no heat is lost, or 

 chance for vessels to become filthy and sour. 



The mush sugar can be finished from the good thin mo- 

 lasses when skimming is complete by putting a number of 

 batches together in a deeper pan heated by one-inch copper 

 pipes, the same as before mentioned we have the fourth trans- 

 fer in our factory for this purpose and cook into sugar from 

 five hundred to six hundred pounds in each batch, taking about 

 one hour's time from thin molasses. It must then be set away 

 in vessels, in a hot room, kept from ninety to one hundred de- 

 grees all the time, when in a few days the granulation will be- 

 come complete, and it may then be separated in a centrifugal 

 machine, and is ready for market. 



The molasses made in this way is worth far more than com- 

 mon sorghum molasses, and is free from that villainous taste, 

 which ruins the trade where the molasses is made without any 

 defecation. We sell ours quickly, where all the sugar is left in, 

 at sixty cents per gallon at wholesale, and it is retailed at sev- 

 enty-five cents. The sugar brings eight cents very readily, and 

 we can not keep any on hand ; our patrons would take twice the 

 amount we are able to make. 



Sugar made by this process will not cost over five cents per 

 pound, but with vacuum pans it can be produced for less. 

 These are very expensive, costing from five thousand to twenty 

 thousand dollars apiece, and our large sugar factories must have 

 them to do work to good advantage. It is to be hoped some of 

 the professors who are using these will be patriotic enough to 

 give to the public full and complete instructions for their use, 

 reserving no secrets, but doing the world good by helping to 

 quickly start this industry among our people. I am confident 

 by so doing they will find greater favor with Peter whenever 

 they approach the gates of heaven, and he will be more ready 

 to pronounce their work well done, and they justly entitled 

 to wages. 



New varieties of this sorghum plant are being brought out 

 every year, and our markets are being flooded with new ma- 

 chinery, very much of which is absolutely worthless. Many 



