If the sugar cane cannot be cooked quickly and efficiently into cane sugar, then it must be cut down and stored. You can find a sheltered place, rake the soil on the surface, water the soil and cover the sugar cane with straw thatch. This can extend the storage time of the sugar cane by almost one month.
There is no other way to do this, otherwise it will be even more wasteful if the sugar cane rots in the field. Now Zhang himself has no way to determine what the sugar production rate will be. How much sugar can be produced from nearly one hundred acres of sugar cane? Brown sugar is converted into Sugar currently does not have sophisticated instruments to stop losses and losses, and it is all done at a huge cost.
When the things arrived home, Liang Chuan called his younger brother to help. The two people were sweating profusely while carrying the stone guy, and placed it in the middle of the backyard. The backyard is usually locked and not open to the public. It took a long time to basically assemble this thing, and the official start of work could only begin the next day.
Cane sugar is made for human consumption. If there are too many idlers waiting, they are afraid that someone with good intentions will come to cause trouble and throw some poison into the sugar cane, causing food poisoning. All your efforts will be in vain. If the consequences are serious, you still have to go. Going to jail is fun.
I don’t want to announce this method of making sugar to the public yet. I will wait until I make enough money to announce it to the public. So now that more people know about it, it is inevitable that some people with ideas will come up with the idea of making sugar. Then You're not competing for business with yourself.
There is a stone hole in the middle of the stone rope. Insert the vertical wood into the stone hole and then fix it between a wooden frame. The two stone ropes are like two oversized prayer barrels, except that one stone rotates. , the other stone snake also started spinning because of the gears on it. The small stone gap between the two stone worms is the place where sugar cane is pressed. The two huge stone worms use the squeezing force to squeeze out the sugar cane juice bit by bit.
This combination is very primitive, but very useful.
The crossbar of the stone snake passes through the wooden frame, and a long sky pole is fixed on it. The other end of the sky pole is fixed on the back of the cow. The cattle are driven to circle along the stone snake. The two stone snakes will move under the pull of the animal power. It keeps turning. If human power is used to turn these two stone snakes, the loss will be unimaginable.
In this era of extremely underdeveloped industry, there were no later generations of juicers. This is the most effective method of extracting sugarcane juice that Liang Chuan could think of. The advantage is that it is easy to operate and he has the conditions to realize it. The disadvantages are also obvious. Sugarcane If the pressing is not clean, there will be a lot of cane juice residue.
Liang Chuan and his two brothers worked hard for a long time before they managed to assemble the candy twist. Liang Chuan asked his younger brother Zhao to go find He Dali and ask for the scalper to come back, and then he could try to push the long sky pole with manpower.
"Third brother, are you going to grind tofu at home?" In Zhaodi's eyes, this is just a millstone for grinding beans.
Liang Chuan chuckled: "I'll treat you to something delicious."
"Is there anything more delicious than sugar cane?"
"Work first, you'll find out later."
Liang Chuan took a lunge and exerted force from his waist. The two stone snakes spun around. After pushing for a while, his forehead began to sweat. This shows how energy-consuming this thing is. Without the extremely endurance of scalpers, Strong livestock, the sucrose can't be squeezed by people at all and is squeezed dry.
In fact, the most efficient thing is not animal power, but the power of nature or mechanical power. If the power of the waterwheel could be used to squeeze juice, it would be much easier than a few scalpers.
Fan Dianyuan and the others cut down sugar cane for a day, and they cut down nearly three acres of sugar cane in one day. One acre of dry sugar cane can produce nearly five thousand kilograms of sugar cane! There are a lot of sugar cane like hills. These sugar canes seem to be in large quantities, but in Liang Chuan's opinion, the yield of this sugar cane field is still too low compared with later generations.
Sugarcane is a crop that is not afraid of fertilizer or burning of seedlings. You can get as much output as you put in fertilizers. It can be said that every effort is rewarded.
If farmyard manure is in place and the most basic cow dung or poultry manure is applied, an output of 8,000 to 10,000 per acre can be achieved. If compound fertilizer is used, the output will be even more amazing. It is grown by the highest farmers. , can grow up to 12,000 kilograms, which is equivalent to twice the output of the sugarcane fields named by Liang Chuan and Zheng Ruoying. Of course, this output must be based on the presence of sweetening and thickening substances. These chemical compounds are not available in this era.
We have experienced a typhoon this year, and the people who grow sugar cane are laymen who don’t even know what sugar cane is, so I just gave them a little guidance.
The varieties of sugarcane have not been improved. It can be said to be the most primitive sugarcane seedlings, and the survival rate is pitifully low. Under these conditions, Liang Chuan was overjoyed to be able to obtain half of the output of future generations. According to the original estimate, it would be very good to produce three to four thousand kilograms of sugar cane.
With this year's experience, the yield of sugarcane planting next year will definitely be higher than lower, and there are a lot of ratoons left in the sugarcane fields, which are more conducive to the growth of sugarcane. The flood and drought problems have basically been solved by Liangchuan, and the output can still be expected. of.
Nearly three acres of sugar cane were harvested in one day, and a large amount was left in the field and confiscated. Liang Chuan asked Fan Dianyuan and the others to cover it with sugar cane leaves to prevent the sun from drying the sugar cane. ,
Some of Fan Dianyuan and others were responsible for pulling cane, while others were responsible for cutting cane. They stacked the cane into piles, and Wangxiang's yard could no longer hold any piles.
There is an ox in the yard. There is an ox yoke on the ox. The yoke is connected to a thick and long wooden pole. There is something like a millstone on the other end. Liang Chuan and Zhaodi are playing with the millstone. Look at them confused. The next day, when they continued to cut cane and transported it to Liangchuan's backyard, Liangchuan was already busy.
Liang Chuan cleaned the sugar cane and asked his brother to find several large wooden barrels, which would later be used to hold cane juice. There was also a hollowed-out bamboo that extended from the sugar boiling room to the outside of the house. This function was similar to Put it in the water pipe, wait for the sugar juice to be squeezed out, pour it directly into the moso bamboo pipe, and flow directly into the continuous pot.
After everything was ready, Liang Chuan asked his younger brother to drive the scalpers, and he stood in front of the sugar cane to 'feed the cane'. There were handfuls of sugar cane. Liang Chuan picked up a handful of sugar cane and inserted it between two stone bamboo poles.
The stone snake rotates gurglingly, and it has a forward force to send the sugar cane forward. Under the huge squeeze, the sugar cane juice slowly flows out and flows along the stone snake into the pressing basin.
"This thing can actually squeeze out the sugar cane water!" Zhaodi went over and dipped some sugar cane juice into his hand, put it in his mouth and tasted it, and almost jumped up with excitement.
"How does it taste? Is it sweet?"
Liang Chuan asked nervously. It was his first time to try to enter the Constitution. Many steps were like crossing the river by feeling the stones. He didn't know whether he would succeed or not.
"Sweet! Sweeter than local honey. The key point is that the taste is very fresh and not greasy at all!" Zhaodi is also a big kid. He was pleasantly surprised when he ate this kind of dessert for the first time. He leaned over the pressing basin and took a big sip of sugarcane. Juice, so beautiful that your face is intoxicated.
The scalper pulled the sky pole and turned it obediently. Zhaodi's head just happened to be lying on the pressing basin. When he raised his head, it hit something strong, which made him grinning from pain.
"Be careful, don't eat too much!"
Liang Chuan smiled and scolded, Zhaodi's biggest weakness has always been his greedy mouth.
The scalper worked tirelessly to pull the stone snake. It was difficult for this big guy to move, but once it started moving smoothly, it became smoother! The two of them were getting more and more excited as they watched the gurgling sugarcane juice. When Liang Chuan first saw this sugar twist at the Xinghua Sugar Factory, he laughed and asked if it was reliable to use a millstone to squeeze cane juice. Now that he saw it, not only was it reliable, it was simply reliable.
The two of them tinkered in the backyard in silence all afternoon. Ye Xiaochai came to Liang Chuan when he had nothing to do, and happened to see the two of them carrying sugar cane to the stone mill.
"What are you doing?"
"Xiaochai, you're here just in time. Hurry up and take the wooden barrel to the pressing basin to help me catch the cane juice. The pressing basin is almost full!"
The juice from these sugar canes was pretty good, but after a while the pressing basin under the stone was almost overflowing. Ye Xiaochai walked quickly, picked up the wooden barrel and quickly placed it under the pressing basin. The sugarcane juice soon flowed into the wooden barrel.
"What are these?" Ye Xiaochai asked curiously. When he smelled it, there was a faint fragrance, "Is it sugar cane juice?"
"Sister Xiaochai, take a sip, it tastes so sweet!" he recommended to Xiaochai as if taking credit for it.
Xiaochai tapped it dubiously, and the moment he put it in his mouth, he suddenly felt that the world had become better. It tasted so delicious!
"This is really sugar cane juice! Can you squeeze so much and drink it all?" In Xiaochai's opinion, what else can you do with this sugar cane juice besides drinking it? It's such a big pot, and the bucket is still flowing. Even if you drink it as water, the whole family can't finish it. If you sell it in a store, it tastes delicious, but it's impossible for anyone to drink it every day.
"Drink your shit, it's all money, it makes my flesh hurt. Xiaochai, you come and feed the cane, and I'll light a fire in the house!"
Liang Chuan was already eager to make candy, and blurted out a curse word involuntarily.
Ye Xiaochai pouted, took the handful of sugar cane unwillingly, and clumsily put it into the sugar cane. It's better not to come and watch the fun, and come to do the work.
Fan Dianyuan's sugar cane is still being delivered in a steady stream, and the bagasse after pressing is piled up in half the yard. This bagasse is also a good thing. After it is dried, it will be used as fuel for cooking sugar.
The moso bamboo connecting the inside and outside of the sugar cooking room has been set up, which is equivalent to a pipe. Liang Chuan lifted the wooden bucket and poured the sugarcane juice into the moso bamboo. The sugarcane juice slowly flowed along the moso bamboo into the iron pot.
After the five chain pots were opened according to the blacksmith's instructions, they are now lying quietly on the chain stove. The fresh sugarcane juice flows along the moso bamboo into the top and largest iron pot.
Liang Chuan connected more than ten barrels. I don’t know how many kilograms of sugar cane were pressed to get these ten barrels of sugar cane juice. The ten barrels of sugar cane juice are almost enough for one pot. Without these more than one hundred acres of sugar cane, I would be exhausted today. , I don’t know if the sugar produced is enough to boil two sweet water eggs.
