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STEAM MILLS. 



The leading mills for steam or water power are the Horizontal Victor 

 and the Niles Mills. 



The Horizontal Victor has the same plan of dispensing with the return 

 plate between the rolls which has given such a celebrity to the Vertical 

 Victor. These mills are made extra heavy and strong, and are of the best 

 design, metal and workmanship. They are especially adapted to the wants 

 of planters who want mills of from four to ten-horse power. They have been 

 recognized standard power mills for many years, and are in use in all syrup 

 and sugar producing sections of the world. It is by far the best small power 

 mill made, in material, construction and finish. 



The Niles Mills were first introduced into Louisiana for crushing sugar 

 cane over 50 year's ago, and have ever since been the standard mills in that 

 section. 'Ihese mills range in size from the smallest (with rolls 16-inch 

 diameter by 16-inch length, weight over 7,000 lbs. ,) to mills with rolls 34-inch 

 diameter by 72-inch length, weight over 150,000 lbs., and upwards. Over 

 500 of the Niles Mills have been sold in Louisiana alone. As this mill has 

 held its ascendency for so long a period, and still maintains it, there can 

 be no doubt concerning its superiority. Nowhere in the country are the 

 qualities that constitute a good cane mill so well understood as in Louisiana. 

 Nowhere else have cane mills been so long in "use, and subjected to such 

 severe tests. Nowhere else is so much science, skill, and capital brought to 

 bear in the selection of sugar machinery. In short, nowhere in this country 

 are the planters so well posted on cane mills as in Louisiana. 



EVAPORATING APPARATUS. 



For many years the Cook Evaporator has been the most popular and 

 successful for fire service. Indeed, the existence to-day of the Northern 

 cane industry is mainly due to this remarkable invention. Its use has 

 become well-nigh universal. 



But notwithstanding its superior advantages, there have been points which 

 our long experience with it demonstrated could be improved; and from time 

 to time, within our own operations, these points have been improved, and 

 practically and thoroughly tested, and then patented. 



These improvements have necessarily increased the cost and price of the 

 Evaporator, but planters can well afford to pay the higher price far the more 

 perfect apparatus. The Automatic Cook was first introduced to the public 

 seven years ago (after several years' test in our own hands) and since then a 

 large number have been sold, and its popularity is steadily increasing. 



This Evaporator preserves the good qualities of its famous forerunner, 

 but saves most of the labor of skimming, makes more syrup with the same fuel, 

 increases the yield of syrup, from a given quantity by securing a re-separation, 

 and improves the quality. It is the most perfect pan ever devised. 



