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The refinery can work all the year from the store of syrup 

 it lays in, provided the farmers grow enough to keep them 

 at work. 



The refinery in Minnesota buys cane and syrup. There 

 is, as yet, but one large refinery, and that is at Faribault, 

 Minnesota, although there are hundreds of lesser ones that 

 act as feeders to the larger one. 



:. From $2 to $3 per ton are paid for the cane, stripped and 

 ready to grind, or from twenty to thirty cents per gallon for 

 the syrup, according as the saccharorneter declares the pro- 

 portion of saccharine matter, which in every case under- 

 goes this test. Thus the farmer is incited to produce a first- 

 class syrup. By planting varieties of cane that mature at 

 different times, the farmer can take advantage of the seasons, 

 and thus get in a much larger crop, with less crowding for 

 labor than if it all ripened at once. 



From investigations made by Gen. Le Due there is but 

 little difference in the amount of sugar or syrup between 

 the Louisiana cane and sorghum, and it requires substan- 

 tially the same machinery to convert it into sugar. 



Dr. Wilhelm, of Minnesota, a celebrated chemist, has 

 made discoveries of materials that free the juice of all acids 

 and vegetable matters that have operated so far to make the 

 taste of sorghum so objectionable to many persons. He and 

 Messrs. Blakely, a capitalist, and Mr. Jolly, the inventor of 

 the machines, have a manufactory of the machines, and 

 they, in selling machines, agree to impart the secret of these 

 chemical agents to purchasers, as well as to teach them the 

 art of refining the sugar and syrup. By aid of these pro- 

 cesses every grade of Louisiana sugar and syrup is made> 

 and they compare most favorably with them. The polari- 

 scope shows a grade of ninety-five to ninety-eight per cent., 

 the crystals are sharp and well defined, and the cubes are 

 perfect, and this is all that is claimed for the best Louisiana 

 sugar. The syrup will yield about seventy to eighty-five 

 per cent, of its bulk or weight in sugar. A ton of good cane 



