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VI. — Sugar. 



The work of this section on sugar has been confined to a 

 series of investigations at Tarnab Farm, North-West 

 Frontier Province. 



Reference was made in my last Annual Report to the 

 tests of the sugar-beets which Mr. Robertson Brown had 

 grown, and to the fact that the quality of the roots had 

 proved to be very good. 



It has been evident throughout in respect to this crop, 

 that the subject must be considered from the manufactur- 

 ing standpoint, because of the fact that marketable sugar 

 could only be produced from the beet root in a factory. 

 This alone necessitates a regular supply of roots over at 

 least several months because otherwise a factory could not 

 hope to pay. It followed therefore that the next desirable 

 step in the work was to ascertain over how many months 

 this crop could be satisfactorily produced. Mr. Brown 

 agreed in this view and decided to sow plots of sugar-beet 

 at intervals over several months. 



A consequence of this decision was that arrangements 

 had to be made for the testing of the crops over a consider- 

 able period, and it was therefore decided to take this oppor- 

 tunity of also testing the local sugarcane as also other 

 varieties of cane at the Tarnab Farm in as thorough a 

 manner as possible. 



A third investigation now presented itself. It is cus- 

 tomary in that locality to bury sugarcane in December 

 in order to preserve it for planting out in the following 

 April. The crop is all harvested in December and January, 

 and cane could not be suitably left standing in the field 

 until the succeeding time of planting. The method of 

 preserving the cane in "clamps' is therefore adopted, 

 and for the end in view the method is very perfect. The 

 question then occurred, does cane, which is preserved in this 

 manner, deteriorate from the manufacturer's standpoint? 

 We decided therefore to include some tests on this question 

 The investigations had thus to do both with cane and beet. 



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