26 THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. 
tions for culture of the cane in a small way. A copy of it will be sent free to any- 
one who applies to Baton Rouge for it in person or by mail. 
The difficulties in securing a central factory for working up sugar cane are 
dependent entirely upon the slowness with which sugar cane plantations can be 
established. Cane plantations must be established before the factory will be secured, 
and farmers are slow to establish a crop which requires three years of work and 
patience, unless they have ‘‘an assurance doubly assured’’ of a factory. 
DESCRIPTION OF MANUFACTURE. 
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SUGARHOUSE ON ADELINE PLANTATION, FRANKLIN, LA. 
This plant is owned and operated by the Oxnard family, who are also interested in the beet sugar 
factories at Norfolk and Grand Island, Nebraska, and Chino, California. Like the latter plant, the 
Adeline sugarhouse has all modern improvements. This is the only instance we know of in the 
United States in which the comparative merits of the cane and beet have been closely compared for 
a series of years. 
conveys it to the mill, and drops it, end on, into a chute which abuts upon the first 
mill—generally a three-roller mill, giving two pressures. Thence a conveyor takes 
the crushed cane to a second mill, where it gets a final squeezing and is ejected in a 
pretty dry state (called ‘‘bagasse’’). This is conveyed by a third carrier to the 
bagasse furnace, wherein it is consumed as fuel and supplies steam power and 
steam heat to the sugar house. 
Or, the cane may be cut up into small pieces by specially designed knives and 
carried into large cast-iron cellsknown as diffusers. Here they are treated by the 
. diffusion process, as described later on in the chapter on manufacture of sugar from 
beets. 
The juice, as it runs from the mill, is strained and limed and passes into the clari- 
/ fiers, where the temperature is raised and the lighter impurities come to the surface 
