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what thev call carsy crop, from the same field ; they say he 

 is either a very poor or a very lazy farmer that does, be- 

 cause those canes yield less juice, and of an inferior quality, 

 than plant canes : however, poverty obliges some to do so. 

 This carsy crop is cut and manufactured in November, 

 which is a busy season In the paddy fields, &c. as this is 

 the time for reaping the coarse or early paddy and natcheny, 

 and for sowing various sorts of small grain, consequently 

 attending to the sugar works at that time of the year is in- 

 convenient : besides, the rains are frequent during this 

 month, which is another very great drawback attending 

 this crop. The grand sugar crop fortunately happens during 

 that time of the year (February, March, and April) when 

 there is scarce any other sort of work in the field : conse- 

 quently both humanity and policy plead in favour of an ex- 

 tended scale to this, or such other branches of agriculture 

 as employ the labourers at a season when there is little or 

 nothing else to do. 



I could never learn that any one had ever depended on a 

 third crop from tlie same field ; for they say, if the second 

 is so much inferior to the first, a third must be still worse; 

 here hands are, or rather were, so numerous, and labour 

 so cheap, that they find it much more profitable to plant 

 every year. 



In the Ganjam district, about Aska and Barampore, the 

 natives make most excellent sugar and sugar-candy, but in 

 small quantities. The sugar is in loaves, of a large grain, 

 and often as perfectly white as what is called in England 

 single refined sugar, and the sugar-candy is superior to any 

 thing of the kind I ever saw. 



Mr. Alex. Anderson, surgeon of the Madras establish- 

 "ment, when with the committee of circuit up there, was 

 so obliging as to send me a very parlicular accoimt of the 

 method they follow in manufacturing their sugar and sugar- 

 candy, of which the following is a copy : 



Extract of a Letter from Alexander Anderson, Esq. Sur- 

 geon of the Madras EstalUshment. 



Method jf preparing the Sugar in the Ganjam District. 

 " After the cane is ready, it is cut in pieces of a foot or 

 elgh|een inches long, and on the same day it is cut, these 

 pieces are put into a wooden mill, which is turned round by 

 bullocks ; on one side of the mill is a small hole sufficient 

 to let the juice pass through, which is received in an 

 earthen pot placed for the purpose. The juice is then I 



strained i 



