SUGAR GROWING AXD ITS MANUFACTURE. 



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numbers of sets have been distributed to cane-growers in tho district. 

 Altog-etlier, about sixty varieties are at present being tested. Not- 

 withstanding tho fact that during tho past winter tlie severest frosts 

 knoAvn in the district occurred, the canes were but littlo affected, tho 

 majority not in the slightest degree. 



Some very important and useful e.\|)eriiii{'iits ari' being carried out 

 by the Colonial Sugar defining C'om])aiiy on their farm at Keith Hall 

 on the southern bank of tho liichmond Eiver, which must prove of 

 considerable value to all those farmers who are intelligent enough to 

 take lessons from them. 



In 1881 a large sugar mill was erected on the south bank of tho 

 Richmond Eiver at tho Broadwater by the Colonial Sugar Company, 

 and owing to tho liberal terms offered by that company many farmers 

 were induced to plant cane under conti-act to supply the mill, conse- 

 quently, and notwithstanding the failure of numbers of small mills, the 

 greatest development of cane cultivation in the colony has taken place 

 on and about this river — to such an extent indeed that the original 

 factory has been trebled in size, and is now one of the largest and 

 most complete mills in the woi^ld, capable of producing 10,000 to 12,000 

 tons of sugar in a season of about five months. 



Table showing figures of sugar industry during last nineteen years. 



