CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 231 



Use of land and taxes, 

 Drawing cane to mill, . 

 Manufacturing, . 

 Wood to boil juice, 



M2 58 



Balance against crop, ..... $14 38 



With mj present experience, I could do it again at loss cost. 

 Amherst, Nov. 15, 1857. 



FRANKLIN. 



Statement' of F. H. Williams. 



I planted one-fourtli of an acre on soil that would produce 

 from 30 to 60 bushels of corn to the acre. Ploughed and planted 

 the last of May, in drills three feet apart, thinning in the drills 

 at hoeing, to about 30 stalks to the rod. The manure was 

 ploughed under, and the cultivation in every respect like corn. 

 September 19th, I stripped 100 stalks of the cane clean of leaves, 

 and run them four times through a common sugar crusher. 

 From these I obtained six gallons of sap ; this was immediately 

 placed over the fire, in a common copper boiler, and boiled to 

 thin sirup, when it was allowed to cool. While boiling, however, 

 I added about a spoonful of lime, and skimmed from the surface 

 a green matter, which rose freely to the surface ; it was also 

 strained. When cool, it was carefully poured off (some of the 

 green matter having settled to the bottom) and placed over the 

 fire ; one egg to one-half pint of milk were added, well beaten 

 together, to clarify it ; as it boiled, was carefully skimmed. 



I obtained from this, one-half gallon of thick sirup, pronounced 

 as good as Stewart's best sirup, by good judges, I took great 

 pains with this experiment, to see if a superior sirup could be 

 made from the cane. October 2d, I commenced to strip the leaves 

 from the one-fourth acre of cane, which stood from twelve to 

 thirteen feet high. Tliese stripped stalks were then passed twice 

 through a common cider-mill, a one-horse load yielding one and 

 one-half barrels of the sap, of a green color, and not agreeable 



