. The Southern States. suits to engross his attention, hegenerally goes to some resort in a coolerlatitude and recuperates. With the harvest his hardest workbegins. His sugar-house and fieldsbecome a busy hive where laborers,black and white, and every other hueknown to the census-taker, swarm pro-miscuously. Every stalk has to be cutby hand, as there has never been anymachine devised for the successful with slats fixed across it bears thecane into the factory in a continuousstream and drops it into a set ofhuge iron rollers, sometimes as manyas six, or even nine being groupedtogether, where it
. The Southern States. suits to engross his attention, hegenerally goes to some resort in a coolerlatitude and recuperates. With the harvest his hardest workbegins. His sugar-house and fieldsbecome a busy hive where laborers,black and white, and every other hueknown to the census-taker, swarm pro-miscuously. Every stalk has to be cutby hand, as there has never been anymachine devised for the successful with slats fixed across it bears thecane into the factory in a continuousstream and drops it into a set ofhuge iron rollers, sometimes as manyas six, or even nine being groupedtogether, where it is squeezed withtremendous force. Sometimes a brightgenius will permit a rock or a coup-ling pin to go along with the cane,and the result is a general smash-up,unless the mill is equipped with ahydraulic device for regulating thepressure and allowing it to respondgracefully to the imperative demands ofhard and unyielding substances. Thepractice of shredding, cutting or mac-erating: cane before it is fed to the mill is. A SUGAR SHED ON THE LEVEE. cutting of sugar-cane. In fact, it growsso thick and matted and is blown bythe wind into such an inpenetrablejungle that no machine can get throughit. So into the fields goes a motleyarmy. With one blow—a great rendingcut, like the swing of a Berserkers axe—the cane is cut at the top at the lastred joint, and with deft, swift strokes theleaves are stripped from it with a hook-like arrangement on the back of theknife. Then, with another terrible cut,it is lopped off at the ground andthrown into piles across the rows, andthen loaded on huge wagons whichtransport it to the sugar-house. Acarrier, composed of an endless chain. becoming very popular, some ten percent, better extraction being obtainedthereby. The juice from the mill is generallysubjected to a process of purificationand bleaching by means of sulphurfumes. It is passed through a recepta-cle filled with a number of shelves andpartitions so arranged as to retard theflow as mu
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