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The Cossipore Sugar Co. got a gold medal for 

 refined sugars, though it was generally considered that 

 the refined sugars of the " Rosa " factory, in Shahje- 

 hanpore, N. W. P. Oudh, were both in respect of the 

 size and brightness of the crystals far superior. At 

 the last Universal Exhibition held in Paris that factory 

 had been awarded a gold medal for refined sugar cane. 



Very fine also were the Exhibits of Messrs. Min- 

 chin Brother & Co. of the Aska sugar works, in the 

 Madras Presidency. The cane juice is extracted by 

 an application of the diffusion process, patented by 

 Messrs. Minchin & Co. 



Though most of these sugars were rather fine 

 looking, their local consumption is very limited, which 

 may be accounted for by the use of animal charcoal in 

 the clarification of the juices, and every body know 

 that nothing can induce the high caste Hindous to 

 feed upon what has directly or indirectly been obtained 

 from animal life. 



In the Economic Court of India were exhibited a 

 Collection of Raw Sugars. A few notes on the culti- 

 vation and manufacture of sugar by the Natives of 

 India, may prove interesting. 



Sugar cane is indigenous and very extensively 

 cultivated in India, and specially in Bengal, where 

 every Byotj or native cultivator who can command one 

 or two acres of suitable land, grows a patch of sugar 

 cane. When the cane is ripe, he squeezes it on or 

 near the field, with an inexpensive mill ; evaporates 



