Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 689
er it is expressed from the cane, is exposed to a high heat.This checks its tendency to ferment. As it comes from the mill, the juice is passed through a sieve or coarse cloth, to separate the coarse6olid feculencies. It then flows from the mill-bed into channels through which it is conducted to… … The crushed cane stalks are carried from the mill to the trash-house, which, on large plantations, is abuilding about one hundred feet long, eighteen feet wide, and fourteen feet high. In these the cane-trash is carefully spread out, and means taken to render it perfectly dry. When dry it i -as…
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