Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Notes on the Manufacture of Sugar in the Island of Cuba
Some used 1 lb. Of powddred slaked lime to every 690 gallons of cane juice, others the same quantity of lime to every 450 gal lons; again others half a gallon of milk of caustic lime (which weighed directly after being stirred up 15 Baum at 20 Gels.) to every 450 gallons. The quantity of lime is somewhat increased every where during the progress of the season. One planter stated that in some instances, particularly towards the close of the sugar campaign, and after a dry season and where the cane has been raised 011 sandy soil, 100 gallons of cane juice had re quired 2 oz. Of caustic lime to neutralize the free acid present; and that he had also used to apply 1 lb. Of caustic lime to every 150 to 17 5 gallons of cane juice even 'under ordinary circum stances. Some add the caustic lime at 40 O to 50 O Cels., others at 60 O to 65 O Cels.
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