500 SORGHUM. 



consistency does crystallize without any known cause. Wheii 

 it is discovered to do so, the farmer might take advantage 

 of this accident and very easily make his own sugar. And 

 to test its capacity to form crystals a small quantity at va- 

 rious times of evaporating might be boiled to a point lower 

 and thicker than for syrup and set aside to stand two, three 

 or four days. If crystals are thrown down in the vessel 

 there is then reason to believe more of it will do so. He 

 can, therefore, should he desire to make his own sugar, boil 

 it to the proper consistency, or until the steam comes up 

 through the syrup with a burst, and set it off in tubs to 

 granulate. Sometimes, however, this does not take place for 

 a few weeks, or even months. In order to expedite the 

 process, it should be kept in a close, warm room, heated up 

 to, at least, 90 degrees. This can be easily done by having 

 the tubs or barrels of syrup in a room made tight, and heat- 

 ed by a stove. With but little replenishing of wood the 

 stove may be kept hot continuously. When the granula- 

 tion has taken place fully let the whole mass, molasses and 

 all, be put into stout cloth bags and hung up to drain. Or 

 it can be put into conical tin moulds, shaped like a sugar 

 loaf, with an opening at the bottom covered by a wire sieve 

 such as is used for straining milk. The bags, however, are 

 cheaper and equally as effective. Here let it remain for a 

 sufficient number of days, to allow all the molasses to pass 

 off. It can then be taken down and mixed with a very 

 small quantity of water and redrained, and this application 

 of water can be repeated until the sugar becomes as white as 

 desired. The water can then be reduced by evaporation, to 

 to the desired consistency of molasses. There are many 

 other processes, and machines for making sugar, that have 

 been invented, for^sale, but they all resolve themselves into 

 the above at last, which process belongs to' any one who 

 wishes to use it. 



In the manufacture of the Southern Cane sugar, lime 

 water, (white wash) is used to clarify it. At first this was 



