CHAPTEK V. 



Cane-mills. Three-roller Mill. Fletcher-Le-Blanc Four - roller 

 Mill. Mirlees' Four-roller Mill. Skegels' Mill. De Mornay 

 Mill. Hydraulic Attachment, etc. Double Crushing. Ma- 

 ceration. Diffusion. 



THE usual method of extracting the juice from 

 the cane is to crush the canes between the 

 rollers of various forms of cane-mill. The mills 

 most commonly employed have three rollers, one 

 roller being on the top and pressing on the two be- 

 neath, as in Fig. 8. The canes enter between A 



Fio. 8. Diagram of three-roller mill. 



and B, the feed rollers, and emerge between B and 

 C, the megass roller. The distance between A and 

 B is so arranged that the canes shall enter with 

 sufficient freedom to ensure good feeding, and at 

 the same time be subjected to a certain degree of 

 pressure, while B and C are set as closely to- 

 gether as possible, leaving only sufficient space for 

 the escape of the fibrous portion of the cane the 

 megass, or begass, as it is called. Skill is required 

 in adjusting the rollers so as to secure as perfect 



