SUGAR rKODUCTlON IN MOZAMBIQUE. 2ig 



Steam Ploughs in Use : — 



From 1906 . . I Set of Class Z 5 Compound Engines com- 

 plete with ploughs. 

 „ 1907 . . 2 Sets of Class Z 5 Compound Engines com- 

 plete with ploughs. 

 „ 1912 . . — Sets of Class Z 5 Compound Engines com- 

 plete with ploughs. 

 Supplied by Messrs. John Fowler & Co., Ltd., Leeds. 



Irrigation Machinery : — 



18 Portable Compound Engines, with 12 in. Centrifugal 

 Pumps, total capacity 3,780.000 gallons per hour. 

 4,850 Feet Piping. 

 4,300 Feet Fluming. 



45 Miles of Irrigation Canals (earth-work). 



Railway Line and Rolling Stock (36 in. gauge) : — 



20 Miles 28 lb. Track. 



5^ Miles 35 lb. Track. 

 16 Miles 14 lb. and 16 lb. Portable Track. 



3 6-\Vheeled Coupled Tank Locomotives. 

 300 Cane Trucks, each of 4^/2 tons capacity. 

 25 Sundry Trucks. 



Draught Oxen : — For Transport from Fields to Permanent Rail- 

 way : — 



150 Native Bred. 



Field Labour: — 



Supervision: — 7 ^^'hite men, 11 Coloured Demarara men, 

 60/120 Native Capitaos. 



Manual Labour : — During Crop time — i.e. from about May 

 until December — an average of 120 Skilled Native Labourers 

 per day, 3.300 Native Labourers per day. 



During Off-Crop time an average of 80 Skilled Native 

 Labourers per day, 2,200 Native Labourers per day. 



Factory. 



The following is a description of the Factory where the 

 Sugar is manufactured : — 



The Factory building is of Steel throughout, and consists of 

 four spans of 30 feet, two spans of 45 feet, and one of t8 feet. 

 The height varies from 30 feet to 50 feet, and length of each 

 span is about 75 feet. 



The Lighting throughout is by some 300 incandescent electric 

 lamps at 220 volts. 



The Engineers' JVorkshops and Stores are in a separate steel 

 building, about 200 feet by 30 feet span, with the necessary 

 lathes, drilling machines and planing machines. 



The Cane is unloaded from the Trucks on to an endless 



