130 



Central factori/ si/sfem. 



Eeceived from the sale of — 



3,750 piculs ) ^f ygo at |^- ^^"^ P^'°' ^'^' I^^^"' \ — - 37, 178 



237.2 metric tons) (156. 75 pesos per metric ton) 



Cost of growing — 



60,000piculs ) j^,^^g^^J2.99pesosperpicul ) j^ g^^ 



3,795 metric tons] (47. 27 pesos per metric ton) 



Profit 19,238 



Increase of profit by new, over old system 2, 138 



According to these figures^ the planter whose sugar averages "Xo. 3" 

 in quality could, by selling his cane on the estate for half its value 

 in 96° crystals instead of manufacturing it himself, make an increased 

 profit of about 30 centavos for each picul of sugar which he now pro- 

 duces. Calculated to the metric ton of sugar, this increased gain would 

 amount to 5.64 pesos, or al)out .56 centavos on each ton of cane now 

 grown. 



In the case of an estate producing exclusively No. 1 sugar, the gain 

 by selling this very rich cane instead of manufacturing it would not 

 be so large, although an increased profit would still result. 



Assuming that the cane grown by tlie above hacienda were all of the same 

 quality as that groinul in ]\lill Control No. 1 (p. 116). and that it were manu- 

 factured in exactly the same manner, except that No. 1 sugar, as it should have 

 been, were produced, the yield of sugar would be 11.15 per cent, hacienda weight, 

 or, deducting for "shrinkage," 10.87 per cent, Iloilo weight, expressed in per cent 

 on the weight of the cane. To make 6,000 picids (379.5 metric tons) of sugar 

 would require 55,188 piculs (3,490.6 metric tons) of cane. From the composition 

 of this cane (see p. 116) we find that a fairly good modern mill, by the same 

 calculation as that made previously, would lose in the bagasse 8.78 parts juice 

 and 1.85 per t-ent sucrose on the cane, and would extract in the juice 15.2 per 

 cent sucrose on the weight of tlie cane. The purity of the juice would drop about 



40 



2 per cent again, or to 89, and the factor 1.4— — would in this case be 95.1 



purity 



and there should be yielded, in the form of 96° sugar, 14.45 per cent of the 



weight of the cane, so that 7,974 piculs (504.4 metric tons) Avould be produced 



from the above weight of cane. 



The profits under each system would then be: 



Present system. 



Received from the sale of— Pesos. 



6 000 piculs ) ^f ^^ r7. 50 pesos per picul ] ^^.^ 



379.5 metric tons) (118. 59 pesos per metric ton j 



Cost of production," as in the previous account 24,900 



Profit 20,000 



" For lack of more exact information on this point, the cost of production of 

 all grades of sugar is taken to be the same. Although somewhat less cane is 

 required to produce a superior than an inferior sugar, the poorer cane generally 

 grows larger and yields a heavier tonnage per hectare, so that the cost of growing 

 cane equivalent to a given weight of sugar is much the same, wliatever the 

 quality. 



