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Mr. Hart in a letter accompanying the specimens wrote thai 

 •hey were brought in by Mr. H. A. Nurse, Agricultural Instructor, 

 from Cedros, and it is reported that the peasants use them for food. 



They are about If inches long and resembles the prau qs and shrimps 

 in the appearance of the carapace (cephalothrax I, and the crabs in the 

 structure of the tail (abdomen). The species live in the sand of the 

 shore. One American species is called the Sand bug, from its habit 

 of burrowing in the sand." — (Agricultural News). 



To the above may be added that J. K. Lechmere Guppy, Esq., 

 has called attention to the fact of its having been previously collected 

 in Trinidad, and has given references to works in which it has been 

 recorded. 



The name by which it is locally known is ,- Cachicam" it is 

 used as food by the working classes, a fact which is apparently new 

 to the British Museum authorities by whom it has so kindly been 

 determined. 



684.- CANE vs. BEET. 



The following cutting from the Louisiana Planter once more 

 discusses the relative sweetness of Beet and Cane Sugars. Those 

 who know most about it, are well acquainted with the difference, but 

 those who know little require to be told more than once, that Cane 

 Sugar is superior to Beet Sugar under equal methods of manufacture. 

 Tea is spoiled utterly, the pudding is made less enticing, the whisky 

 toddy has a perceptably different flavour, and the children's teeth are 

 more subject to decay whenever Beet Sugar is used in preference to 

 that derived from the Sugar Cane. 



The Eelative Sweetness of Beet and Cane Sugars. 



" This much discussed subject conies to the front quite frequently, 

 and once again, now, from the Sugar City. Colorado, where the Sac- 

 charine Gazette has on exhibition some candy made from beet sugar 

 that it says •'has Lowney's candy beat all 'round the block." This 

 candy was made in Sugar City from sugar manufactured from beets 

 grown in Sugar City, and may be candy par excellence, and made 

 from sugar par excellence. 



There would seem to be no proper disputing that cane sugar and 

 beet sugar are the same product economically and, when strictly pure, 

 will probably have the same degree of sweetness. The trouble is 

 with the impurities. The larger part of the impurities can readily be 

 removed from any manufactured article, but their final removal, the 

 complete separation in the process of manufacture, would ordinarily 

 be more difficult with sugar, or other article that requires great skill. 



It is a well recognized fact that molasses is one of the cheapest 

 sources from which to procure alcohol. Within a tew years tens of 

 thousands of barrels of molasses have been thrown into the river in 

 this state and in the Sandwich Islands they are even now using it as a 

 fuel, or as a fertilizer. Molasses, then, being so cheap and yet so ef- 

 fective as an alcohol producer, one would wonder why there is not a 

 greater demand for it for producirg alcohol in preference to the use 



