. The Saturday magazine . x, areshallow woodeh vessels, about eleven inches deep,seven feet in length and from five to six feet wide; acooler of this size holds a hogshead of sugar. Herethe sugar grains j that is, as it cools it runs into acoarse irregular mass of imperfect half-formedcrystals, and separates itself from the treacle. The sugar of each days boiling is carried, thefollowing morning, in pails, from the coolers of theboiling-house, and deposited in hogsheads in thecuring-house, where it remains for five or six weeks,the treacle draining into cisterns placed this ceases
. The Saturday magazine . x, areshallow woodeh vessels, about eleven inches deep,seven feet in length and from five to six feet wide; acooler of this size holds a hogshead of sugar. Herethe sugar grains j that is, as it cools it runs into acoarse irregular mass of imperfect half-formedcrystals, and separates itself from the treacle. The sugar of each days boiling is carried, thefollowing morning, in pails, from the coolers of theboiling-house, and deposited in hogsheads in thecuring-house, where it remains for five or six weeks,the treacle draining into cisterns placed this ceases to flow, the hogsheads are headedup by the coopers, and the sugar is in a fit state forexportation. It is necessary that the operation of boiling thejuice should take place immediately after it has beenextracted from the cane, as in the course of half anhour, owing chiefly to the heat of the climate, itwould be in a state of fermentation. For the foregoing particulars we are chiefly in*, THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE. 221. CUTTING THE CANES.
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