Report ... Together with Appendices ...C. Potter, Government print., 1890 - 257 pages |
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Page 195 - This second boiling will occupy about an hour. Taken off the fire, the vessels are carried to a large wooden trough, over which is spread a coarse, open wire netting. The contents are poured over this, and the peel distributed over the surface of the netting, so that the...
Page 193 - ... gouge out the inside with a few rapid motions of the forefinger and thumb, and throwing this aside place the rind unbroken in a vessel alongside them. The rind is next carried to large casks filled with fresh cold water, in which it is immersed for between two and three days to rid it of the salt it has absorbed.
Page 194 - ... treated with a weak solution of sugar, which may then be gradually strengthened, for the power of absorption is one that grows by feeding. The fruit (and this holds good more especially with the rind) would absorb with difficulty and more slowly...
Page 193 - ... interior as well as the exterior surface. In these casks it arrives at the doors of the manufactory. The first process to which it is then subjected is the separation of the fruit from the rind. This is done by women, who, seated round a large vessel, take out the fruit...
Page 104 - A being thus born, and without food whatsoever, lays an egg very nearly as large aa that from which she came. " We have, further, the spectacle of an underground insect possessing the power of existence even when confined to its subterranean retreats. It spreads in the wingless state from vine to vine, and from vineyard to vineyard, when these are adjacent, either through passages in the ground itself, or over the surface ; at the same time it is able in the winged condition to migrate to much more...
Page 106 - An emulsion resembling butter can be produced in a few minutes by churning with a force pump two parts of kerosene and one part of sour milk in a pail. The liquids should be at about blood heat. This emulsion may be diluted with twelve...
Page 193 - ... brine. When removed from this cauldron the peel should be quite free from any flavor of salt, and at the same time be sufficiently soft to absorb the sugar readily from the sirup, in which it is now ready to be immersed. The...
Page 106 - ... or with a strong garden syringe. The strength of the dilution must vary according to the nature of the insect to be dealt with, as well as to the nature of the plant; but, finely sprayed in twelve parts of the water to one of the emulsion, it will kill most insects without injury to the plant.
Page 194 - ... easier of absorption, and by which it has been thoroughly permeated first. It is a knowledge of this fact that governs the process I now describe. The fruit has now passed into what I may call the saturating room...
Page 195 - A slight fermentation takes place in most of the jars, but this, so far from being harmful, is regarded as necessary, but of course it must not be allowed to go too far. There is yet another stage, and that perhaps the most important, through which the peel has to pass before it can be pronounced sufficiently saturated with sugar. It is now boiled in a still stronger sirup, of a density of 40 degrees by the testing tube...