crushing-mill

Updated: June 10, 2025

I have made a second tour through the factory, and am rather disgusted with sugar making. "All's well that ends well," however, and the delicate crystalline result makes one forget the initial stages of the manufacture. The cane, stripped of its leaves, passes from the flumes under the rollers of the crushing-mill, where it is subjected to a pressure of five or six tons.

Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird - The Hawaiian Archipelago