“In 1773, Bore bought a sugar mill and hired a sugarmaker. In 1794, he sowed a large amount of seed cane. To minimize frost damage, he planted the cane close together. To prevent cane fields bordering the backswamp from becoming waterlogged, he devised a novel system of gates and sluices – the precursor, actually, of the town’s drainage system, built after cane fields gave way to antebellum suburbs. The moment of truth didn’t arrive until the harvested cne had been ground and purified and finally evaporated into a viscous syrup. This was when granulation normally took place. A hushed crowd of Bore’s fellow planters were gathered in his sugar mill when the sufar mill when the sugarmaker cried out: ‘It granulates!’ You can date the origins of the modern Louisiana sugar industry to this specific point in time.” Last posting from the Accidental City.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:40:13 +0000
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