THE TECHNOLOGIST. 
.RESEARCHES ON THE JUICE OF THE SUGAR CANE IN 
MAURITIUS, AND THE MODIFICATIONS IT UNDERGOES 
DURING MANUFACTURE. 
BY DR. ICERY. 
President of the Chamber of Agriculture. 
Translated by James Morris, Esq., Representative of the Chamber of Agriculture 
of Mauritius. 
(Continued from page 347.) 
Second Part. — I. The Composition of the Sugar-Cane and of 
its Juice in General. 
The term u Juice " has been employed to designate the liquid extract 
of the cane when subjected to a greater or less pressure. When flowing 
freshly from the mill it contains a notable quantity of solid particles, 
sometimes of extreme tenuity, and which float along its whole surface. 
These are the fragments of the fibres and vegetable cells, the result of 
the crushing and tearing action of the cylinders of the mill. It is 
always easy by means of subsidence or common filtration to separate 
these minute bodies, and they cannot therefore, be considered as an 
integral part of the cane-juice. It is, therefore, erroneous to assign to 
them, as certain authors have done, a place among the elemental con- 
stituents of the liquid, designating them by the very unfitting name of 
coloured fecula. I have already shown, that deducting these amorphous 
products entirely accidental and foreign to the intimate nature of the 
cane-juice, there exists normally in this liquid, as in many vegetable 
juices, organised corpuscles in the form of globules with distinct and 
transparent membranes, from 3 to 5 thousandths of a millimetre in 
diameter, and I have indicated the importance which must for the future 
be attached to the presence of these microscopical particles by all our 
colonial sugar manufacturers. 
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