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cross-beams 8 feet from the ground ; each cell would hold 1,400 pounds 

 of chips. The cost of this battery with pipe and fittings was $5,500 ; 

 its work was in every way satisfactory. The exhausted chips were dis- 

 charged into a chute of sloping sides, directing them into a drag of 

 peculiar construction, delivering them into an elevated chute from 

 whence a cart removed them. This apparatus worked well. 



The double-effects are each 4 feet in diameter and IS feet long placed 

 on end ; each has seventy 3-inch brass tubes 8 feet long placed verti- 

 cally; ends of tubes properly secured in plates, steam being admitted 

 to the chamber about the tubes. Pumps draw the liquor from bottoms 

 of pans, discharging at the top, passing through perforated screens to 

 the upper plate from which it overflows a thin film of juice down the 

 inside of all tubes alike; the evaporation occurs in the tubes; a vacuum 

 is maintained throughout the tubes and circulating pipes. The vapor 

 was removed at lower end of tubes, with suitable circulating pumps and 

 a slight change in the tops to facilitate cleaning; they will not only 

 have large capacity but unusual merit for handling sorghum juices. 

 These pans by reason of mechanical defects not difficult to overcome 

 and the rapid formation of scale upon the heating surface, extremely 

 difficult to remove, caused some considerable delay to the work. 



The first or second cutter, Hughes's style, consisting of two heavy 

 balance wheels 36 inches in diameter placed 32 inches apart on a 3-inch 

 shaft; two knives placed horizontally connected the face of the balance 

 wheels. The dead-knife was placed 8 inches below center of the shaft, 

 thereby making a bevel cut on the cane ; space between end of drag 

 and dead-knife 23 inches ; this permitted the seed to readily escape the 

 knives by falling into a drag. Power was transmitted by a belt, the 

 cutters making 200 revolutions per minute, cutting into 1-inch sections 

 a bed of cane 30 inches wide and 6 inches deep. This cutter proved de- 

 ficient in both strength and capacity ; one-third of the delays and losses 

 attending the work are traced to this source. Below the cutter was a 

 single fan 20 inches in diameter and 30 inches long, having a motion of 

 COO revolutions per minute. Its work was especially fine. 



The two shredders were each 20 inches long and 8 inches in diameter, 

 provided with four knives held in place by a peculiar arrangement at 

 the ends, leaving the face of cylinder free of openings. Motion, 1,200 

 revolutions per minute. Doing satisfactory work. 



Three clarifiers of No. 10 iron, round, 5 feet in diameter and 30 inches 

 deep with cone-shaped bottoms; 2-inch copper coils were used. They 

 lacked scum pockets ; otherwise their work was satisfactory. 



The cane shed consisted of two floors, each 10 feet wide and 150 feet 

 long, separated one above the other by a space of 4 feet. As a means 

 of storing cane this apparatus worked well. 



An open pan, iron, of two channels each 12 inches wide and 12 inches 

 deep and 20 feet long, filled with three-quarters inch copper coil was at 

 first useti with steam as a skimming pan to aid clarification, l/ater 



