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Table shovnng the composition of the mill juice and the quality of the sugar 

 produced by a number of mills in Negros. 



Since no one sample of sugar could fairly represent the entire output 

 of the hacienda from which it was secured, the sources of the ^ different 

 samples are not given, although it may be stated that they were taken 

 from mills in the district of Bago, Pontevedra-La Carlota, Ilog-Caban- 

 calan and San Carlos, and covered a period of time of about six months, 

 or practically the entire grinding season of 1908-9, so that the average 

 composition of the juices and sugars given should not be far from that of 

 the whole island during that time. As a matter of fact, although possibly 

 through coincidence, the average polarization of the sugar herein shown, 



