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EXPERIMENT NO. 1-ORDINARY PROCESS ONLY. 



Date: September 24, 1891. 



Variety and plat : Black African, from part of plats 2, 5, and 23. 

 Gross cane (topped cane) tons . 



Trash do . . 



Clean cane do . . 



Clean cane lost in teaching the workmen and in samples for analysis do.. 



Net clean cane worked do . . 



19.1 

 2.75 



16.35 

 1.17 



15.18 



Mean weight of clean cane per cell pounds. . 322 



Trash, per cent topped cane 14. 4 



Juice analyses.* 



Degree Brix 



Siicrose per cent.. 



Glucose do 



Purity coefficient 



Glucose, per cent sucrose 



Normal 

 juice. 



19.55 

 11.69 



59.3 

 24.7 



Diffusion 

 juice. 



12.31 

 8.22 

 1.39 

 66. 8 

 16.9 



* All analyses by E. G. Runyan and Oma Carr. 



Exhausted chips. 

 Sucrose lost in exhausted chips, per cent cane, 0.76 (mean of twelve analyses). 



Yield. 



Pounds. 



Weight of first sugar ohtained 1, 698 



Weight of first sugar, per ton clean cane 111. 8 



Weight of first sugar per ton (net) of topped cane 90. 6 



EXPERIMENT NO. 2 ORDINARY AND ALCOHOL PROCESSES. 



Date : September 25, 1891. 



Variety and plats: Black African; plats 2, 5, and 23. 



Gross cane (topped cane) tons . . 22. 475 



Trash do.... 3.430 



Clean cane do 19. 045 



Clean cane, removed in samples do 120 



Skimmings lost, calculated to clean cane do 826 



Net clean cane worked do 18. 099 



Mean weight of clean cane per cell : pounds.. 349 



Trash, per cent topped cane 15. 2 



Juice analyses. 



Normal Diffusion 

 juice. juice. 



DegreeBrix 17.21 11.55 



Sucrose percent.. 11.72 8.20 



Glucose do.... 1.53 1.14 



Purity coefficient 68.1 71 



Glucose, per cent sucrose 13. 1 13. 9 



Exhausted chips. 

 Sucrose lost in exhausted chips, per cent cane, 0.84 (mean of seventeen analyses). 



