258 APPENDIX. 
By following successive weighings, made with conscientious exact 
ness, I learned the fact that 24 acres well managed, with the desirable 
conditions of good culture, yields 
1,520 metrical quintals of canes, deprived of their leaves. 
278 “ a green leaves, very excellent. 
For the nourishment of stock, and representing, at sixty 
cents the 250 lbs., a sum total of - - $47 
Adopting, as a starting point, the first cost of culture and 
manufacture, the result above given would be - 137 
My expenses were thus reduced by - . - AT 
Giving - - - - - ‘ $90 
I had already a sure basis. Ninety dollars was my entire expense 
for the product of 520 quintals of cane. I obtained the sum of 84 c. 
as a representative value for the production per metrical quintal. I 
will detail in another place the different operations which preceded the 
distillation. It will be sufficient to say that a metrical quintal of canes 
yielded, on distillation, 5-2 quarts of alcohol at 94°, being 0.15.1 of 
raw material for a quart of alcohol at 94°. 
Thus, then 
The cost of raw material being, - - . $0 03 
The cost of crushing, maceration of the bagasse and of the 
seeds, fermentation, yeast of beer, distillation, rectifica- 
tion, about, - - - - . <2 AD 
Cutting and transporting to the still, - - 0 02 
I obtain, as the cost at Constantine, for the 3)}6* reduced 
to 94°, - - dee - - $015 
This will, doubtless appear a high price, but taking into considera- 
tion the extravagant price for manual labor in the province of Con- 
stantine, the explanation will be sufficient. In fact, a workman em- 
ployed either on the farm or in the distillery does not have less wages 
than seventy to eig!.ty cents per day, for ten hours’ work. I have been 
* A technical expression, used in France to signify a certain strength of alcoholic 
liquors. It cannot be translated. 
