HEDGES, FREE & CO.
Treatise on sugar cane including letters from farmers experimenting with sugar cane and sorgo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 - 43
Choice of ground for planting cane. ------------------------------------------------------------------44
Mode of planting.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------47
Treatment of the plant------------------------------------------------------------------------------------49
Stripping the cane------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------51
Saving the seed---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------52
Cutting up the cane--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 54
Milling the cane -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------55
Sugar cane mills -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------58
Defecation and clarification of the juice -------------------------------------------------------------69
Syrup or sugar boiling - boiling pans------------------------------------------------------------------79
Builder's directions for setting range of kettles----------------------------------------------------88
Corrugated pan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------90
Grate bars and Furnaace door and frame -----------------------------------------------------------95
Brass wire gauze skimmer------------------------------------------------------------------------------100
Saccharometer, test cup and proof glass-------------------------------------------------------------101
Coolers-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------103
Sugar molds and grain pots------------------------------------------------------------------------------104
Synopsis of whole process-------------------------------------------------------------------------------106
Directions for setting and using vertical mills------------------------------------------------------ 111
Cooks patent evaporator ------------------------------------------------------------------------112 - 113
Little giant corn and cob mill information ----------------------------------------------------116 - 138
Feeding farm stock (advantages of grinding corn and cob --------------------------------------139
Agricultural steam boiler.(cooking feed for livestock) ------------------------------------153 - 170
Kitchen mill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------171 - 174
Tom Thumb Grist Mill ----------------------------------------------------------------------------175 - 178
Grocers sugar mill ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------179
Plows etc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------180
Cast iron road scraper -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------181
Males Mill (cider mill) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------182 - 184
Sanford's patent straw cutter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------185
Shepard's steel plows --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------186
Berea grindstones ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------187
Cast iron pig trough ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------188
India-rubber belting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------189
Hose -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------190
questions or comments, contact me at:
christison@coastalnet.com