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Gen. Le Due has established the fact that no material difference 

 exists between them, one variety being as good as another. It 

 may be well enough to try the early amber, however, and possibly 

 the experience of Tennesseans may discover a difference. The 

 amber is a sport or hybrid of some of the African varieties. 



Above is stated the difference of the various machines. Sup- 

 posing that only one refinery will be established, it will be of inter- 

 est to farmers to know the best process of preparing cane for sale 

 to the refinery. The ordinary mill and evaporating pan only are 

 required. Let the syrup be boiled in the pans as usual, until it is 

 of the ordinary thickness. In this form it is salable to the refinery 

 as well as to consumers. At an outlay of $3,000 a farmer, or a 

 combination of farmers can sell sugar to the refinery, or to the 

 general market, that is equal to the best coffee sugars. This is 

 done by the addition of a " centrifugal," an iron box with gauze 

 wire sides, that revolves with amazing rapidity in a hollow cylin- 

 der, and it throws out every particle of fluid matter, retaining 

 only the solid crystals of sugar. Of course, the centrifugal can 

 only be revolved with the aid of steam. But steam is so far su- 

 perior to furnaces for the evaporation of the juice of sorghum that 

 it will be an improvement to employ it for that purpose even if a 

 centrifugal is not provided. Hon. Seth H. Kinney, of Morris- 

 town, Minnesota, proposes to sell these machines and send a man to 

 teach their use. 



Another method of selling to the refinery is the " mush sugar." 

 This is made by the use of the ordinary mill and evaporator and 

 granulating pans. First boil the juice to a certain consistency, 

 shown by an instrument called the saccharometer, then place the 

 syrup in pans provided for the purpose, that shut up like a chest of 

 drawers. It here remains for a certain time, varying from forty- 

 eight hours to three weeks, when it is found to be in the condition 

 that is called mush sugar, and it is then ready for the centrifugal 

 or the refinery. It would be a good idea for several neighbors to 

 pool together^ and provide one centrifugal for a hundred mills, as 

 it can be run at any time throughout the winter or the succeeding 

 year. 



These machines will soon appear, however, when the erection of 

 a refinery creates a demand for tj^eir services. 



Messrs. Stockell and Scales have kindly placed at the disposal of 



