78 SUGAR 



compound of sucrose, glucose and fructose, in varying 

 proportions, in combination with organic and inorganic 

 salts, and holding in solution or suspension gummy 

 and nitrogenous matter, silica, iron and calcium 

 phosphates and other similar bodies." 



The use of molasses as a cattle food is making good 

 progress. Mr. Hughes discovered that a mixture of 

 molasses with the pith of the sugar cane produced a 

 substance of a dry mealy consistency which could be 

 transported to consuming countries in bags without 

 losing its dry character. It has been named " Molas- 

 cuit " rather a far-fetched and not very attractive 

 word and is well worth a trial by the dairy farmer. 

 It contains 75 per cent, of good sweet West Indian 

 cane sugar molasses, and 25 per cent, of the dry cellular 

 tissue of the sugar cane, a very nourishing mixture. 



In many countries it is difficult to know what to do 

 with the molasses. They have tried it in the boiler 

 furnaces mixed with megass, but it forms masses of 

 coke which choke the bars, and sometimes even combines 

 with the silica of the cane and forms a sort of glass or 

 slag which makes a worse stoppage. But if special 

 furnacesare made it is found that the molasses, blown 

 in the form of a spray, makes very good fuel. Another 

 use for it is to spread it over the fields and plough it in. 



A word or two as to the chemical control of sugar 

 factories and refineries must not be omitted. In these 

 days of scientific perfection, as the only alternative 

 to " going to the wall," this is absolutely essential. 

 In a refinery, the quantity of pure sugar entering the 

 refinery in the form of raw sugar must be compared 

 with the quantity of pure sugar leaving it, whether 

 in the form of pure sugar or of yellow sugars, or shut 

 up in the treacle or golden syrup. Then the value 

 of the unit of pure sugar brought in can be compared 



