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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Fig 1- VERTICAL SUGAR MILL. 
Sugar Mills and Boiler Hanges, 
Inquiries begin to corne thickly upon us for in¬ 
formation respecting the best apparatus for ex¬ 
pressing the uice ' f the Chinese Sugar Cane. 
We expected, ere this, to have discussed this mat¬ 
ter with Mr. E. Kelly, of New Brunswick, N. J, 
who got up some cheap, simple mills last year, 
for use in small operations, and who, some time 
since, proposed to manufacture them this year on a 
large as well as a small scale. We have not been 
able to see him lately, however. We present 
above, illustrations of two kinds of mills, one 
with vertical and the other with horizontal rollers, 
manufactured by Messrs. Hedges, Free, & Co., 
of Cincinnati. 
Fig. 1 shows a three-roller vertical mill. Its 
construction is sufficiently plain without descrip¬ 
tion. The rollers are iron, of course, and-they 
are of various sizes. According to the mauufac- 
turers’ card, “ a one-horse mill of this form, 
weighing 600 lbs., is capable of expressing 30 to 
50 gallons of juice per hour, and costs $56. One 
weighing 1,100 lbs. costing $100, is capable of ex¬ 
pressing 60 to 80 gallons of juice per hour. One 
weighing 1,400 lbs., costing 
$135, is capable of express¬ 
ing 80 to 100 gallons per 
hour.” We give these as 
manufacturers’ figures. 
Fig 2 is a horizontal mill, 
which, though more expen¬ 
sive, is to be preferred for 
extended operations. The 
same firm name as the weight 
of these, 1,000 lbs. to 2,500 
lbs. ; capacity, 10 to 100 
acres ; cost, $125 to $600. 
Particulars can be obtained 
of the manufacturers. By 
next month, there will proba¬ 
bly be a variety of mills ad¬ 
vertised by different manu¬ 
facturers. 
FURNACE RANGE. 
In fig. 3 we present a plan 
of a furnace for a range of 
Oqilers. The flat iron boilers, 
which set into the brickwork, are left out in order 
to show the mason work. Two kettles, or boilers, 
are set side by side, and at the end of these is a 
third kettle. The npain fire is, of course, built in | 
Fig. 2- HORIZONTAL SUGAR MILL. 
the front arch. This arrangement strikes us as a 
very convenient and perfect one. For this we are 
indebted to Messrs. Hedges & Free, of Cincinnati, 
who drew it up for the forthcoming Report of the 
Ohio State Board of Agriculture. The design and 
drawing are very creditable, and the arrangement 
is suggestive. We will here add a general re¬ 
mark upon the construction of boilers. They 
should always be so arranged that the fire will in 
3-RANGE OF SUGAR BOILERS. 
no case reach as high upon the outside as the 
surface of the syrup on the inside. If the fire 
touches the kettle or boiler at or above the liquid 
within, it will surely bp scorched and more or less 
injured in taste and color. The best arrange¬ 
ment is to have the sides entirely protected by 
brick-work. The thinner the kettles, and the 
brisker the fire, the better; that is, until the syrup 
is thick, when the heat is to be diminished. 
Agricultural Humbug at Washington. 
[.ZVo. IV Continued, from page 199.] 
[The article in our last, together with what fol¬ 
lows, was written June 21. We have since seen 
a lengthy article in the Philadelphia North Amer¬ 
ican, dated also June 21, and treating the subject 
very much as we have, only with more severity, 
as it doubtless deserves. We may, perhaps, give 
parts of that article hereafter. We have recent¬ 
ly learned, from reliable sources, several new 
facts concerning the way things are managed in 
the Agricultural Department, at Washington, 
which it will be useful to make public in due time. 
We may here add, also, that several correspon¬ 
dents, in different parts of the country, have sent 
us sundry statements concerning the private 
history of the Agricultural Clerk, whose antece¬ 
dents the Commissioner of Patents has allowed 
himself to be made the instrument of setting 
forth to the public in such glowing colors, but we 
will say, to such correspondents, once for all, we 
have nothing to do with Mr. Brown’s private or 
domestic affairs. We have only to do with him 
in his public transactions as connected with the 
Government Department, for the management of 
which he is really, though not nominally, respon¬ 
sible. As before remarked, we do not know Mr. 
Brown personally, have never seen him, nor had 
a word of correspondence with him on any topic, 
and therefore, in anything we may write, we are 
the farthest possible from aiming at him as an in¬ 
dividual. We dislike controversy of any kind, es¬ 
pecially one which may appear, even, to be per¬ 
sonal ; but our duty to our readers, to the in¬ 
terests of our common agriculture, does not per¬ 
mit us to ignore the doings of a Governmental 
Department in which we all have a common in¬ 
terest, and especially can we not pass over this 
recent attempt to silence the efforts making to 
purify and elevate to its proper position a Depart¬ 
ment which should be an ornament to our Nation, 
by thus making use of official position, of the pub¬ 
lic mails, and indirectly of the public press, to pa¬ 
rade before the country an over-drawn coloring of 
