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Mr. Pafne. This plant at Liifkin will require about S2o.000 capital. 



Mr. Anderson'. What would be its output, normally f 



Mr, Paine. They expect to handle about 300.000 gallons of sirup 

 this year; this is expected to be increased later to 500.000 gallons. 



Mr. Anderson. What would that be worth? 



Mr. Paine. The}- should get at present prices about 75 cents a 

 gallon. 



Mr. BicHANAN. In this plant you are speaking of, is it for the 

 manufacture of some substance to keep the sirup from fermentation 

 and from solidification, or is it to manufacture sirup ? 



Mr. Paine. The sirup is made by the individual growers, the 

 farmers themselves. 



Mr. Buchanan. I know, but what is the plant for? 



Mr. Paine. The plant is simply a blending, processing, and can- 

 ning plant. The finished sirup is made in the customary manner by 

 the growers, and the output of the individual producers is brought to 

 this plant and mixed on a sufficiently large scale to give uniformity 

 of quality, which they do not have now; it is then treated with inver- 

 tase to prevent crystallization and finally canned. 



Mr. Buchanan. This plant, then, crushes the cane to get the juice 

 out of it and then boils tiie juice to sirup; and then you mix it ( 



Mr. Paine. No; they have individual mills, just as they have 

 always had. 



Mr. BuciL^NAN. The individual producers of the sirup bring it 

 there ? 



Mr. Paine. They bring the finished sirup there. 



Mr. Buchanan. Then why could not this mixture, or treatment, 

 or whatever it is, be maile right at the mill that manufactures the 

 sirup ? 



Mr. Paine. Because the sirup varies in quality as made by these 

 individual producers. The producer himself at his mill is not able 

 to turn out the same quality of sirup constantly throughout the 

 sea.son, and no two growers produce the same quality of sirup. 



Mr. Bi'CHANAN. Lrct US scc about that a minute: You take this 

 cane and crush it and get the juice out of it, aiul then you j)ut it in 

 the vats or pans and vou boil it, and you have an instrument with 

 which to determine the sirup-making point to which it should be 

 boiled f 



Mr. Paine. Yes. 



Mr. Buchanan. That instrument will determine that, if it is the 

 same character of instrument in all mills? 



.Mr. Paine. Yes. 



Mr. Buchanan. You could boil it down to exactly the same 

 density, I suppose you would call It ( 



Mr. Paine, i es. 



Mr. Buchanan. \\\i\ why would it not be the same? 



Mr. Paine. You get the same density, but you do not j^et the same 

 <|ualily, the same flavor and color, because the flavor aiulcolor of the 

 .sirii|) varies with the variety of cane, the type of soil it is grown upon, 

 and the facilities availai)le and care used in making the sirup. 



Mr. Buchanan. Do you recommend a treatment of the juice 

 through sidpluir fumes to give it a uniform commercial color? 



Mr. Taim:. .\o. 



Mr. Br( iiANAN. Do vou condemn that ( 



