V SUGAR CANE 143 



In all the operations for the manufacture of sugar, clean- Cleanliness 

 liness should be observed. After grinding, the mill should ^^^^"^'^'• 

 be properly cleaned, and the parts of the iron that the 

 juice has been in contact with ought to be brushed over with Cleaning tht 

 lime so as to neutralise the vegetable acids, which would *"' 

 otherwise do much harm to the juice at the next grinding. 



