Defecation of Cane Juice by Electricity. 



By Seaforth M. Bellairs. 



T is now a good many years since the influence 

 of ele6lricity on cane juice, first became the 

 subje6l of consideration. 

 At present, it is somewhat of a sore subje£l, owing to 

 the shameful swindle of a Company, that pretended to 

 have discovered a method of refining raw sugar into 

 pure sugar, dry, and in one operation, by the supposed 

 influence of ele6lricity. But, because unprincipled ad- 

 venturers have used the term electricity to cover a 

 swindle, it by no means necessarily follows that there 

 may not be something in the a6lion of ele6lricity, which 

 may prove useful to the sugar maker. 



By the term " Sugar Maker," I mean more the maker 

 of sugar than the refiner. The two are not at all the 

 same thing. The sugar maker takes the juice of a plant, 

 generally cane or beet, and extra6ls therefrom one of its 

 constituents, sugar. The refiner takes raw sugar and 

 separates the sugar from other substances, which we 

 may call impurities, which are mixed with it, rather 

 than in it. 



For instance, yellow sugar, such as Demerara usually 

 exports to England, is really white pure sugar, each 

 rrystal of which is covered with a very thin film of a 

 sticky colouring substance ; and dark sugar, shipped to 

 the United Slates, is much the same except that the sticky 

 substance is dark and dirty-looking ; there are some 

 particles of dark matter, incorporated inside some of the 



