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The Alexandria Herald
Alexandria, Virginia
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M. Figuier reports to the Montpellier Society on M. de Lapanousse's process for making syrup from Indian corn juice, using lime to purify it, yielding 9.5-10 pounds per 45-50% juice from stalks. Compared to American sugar cane, corn offers economic advantage due to faster cropping cycles despite lower yield.
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In a report made to the Society of Sciences, letters, and arts of Montpellier, M. Figuier announces that, to proceed to the manufacture of the syrup of Indian corn, M. de Lapanousse, saturates the acids which the juice of the corn stalks contains, and coagulates the vegeto-animal matter that it encloses. The author employs alternately clay, pearl ashes and lime: his experiments have inclined to give the preference to this last substance, and in the proportion of two ounces to ten pounds of juice. The quantity of juice that the corn stalks have yielded him is from 45 to 50 per cent: and this quantity of juice has furnished him from 9 1/2 to 10 pounds of syrup well boiled. He has afterwards compared the produce of the sweet juice of the sugar cane cultivated in America, with that of the Indian corn cultivated in his department. The result is that the sugar cane furnishes a double quantity of it; but in the time necessary for the sugar cane to arrive at its maturity, one can gather three crops of Indian corn, because the sugar cane remains in the ground from 15 to 20 months, whilst the Indian corn remains in it only 3 or 4. This calculation gives the advantage to the Indian corn; this advantage were it a little exaggerated, the process examined by M. de Lapanousse does not present the less for it a considerable interest—One cannot encourage too much researches, the inevitable result of which is to cause all the substances subjected to them to be better known.
Paris, Aug. 6.
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Montpellier
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Aug. 6
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sugar cane yields double the syrup quantity but requires 15-20 months per crop; indian corn yields less but allows three crops in that time, giving it an economic advantage.
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M. de Lapanousse's process saturates acids in Indian corn stalk juice and coagulates vegeto-animal matter using lime (preferred, 2 ounces per 10 pounds juice), yielding 45-50% juice from stalks and 9.5-10 pounds syrup per that quantity. Compared to sugar cane in America, tested against corn in his department.