INDIAN" There is also a small industry carried on by 



EFFORTS. Indians in various parts of the country, in making 



Giir or J agger ee. They grow small patches of cane, 

 and extract the juice with small bullock mills — 

 mostly of American make. The juice is boiled in a 

 single pan over an open fire, till ready for the 

 " strike," when the pan is lifted off the fire and the 

 contents poured into a shallow box to cool. The 

 resulting mass is dug out as soon as it has set, and 

 packed by hand into moulds — such as a small bucket 

 — and left to harden. In some cases it is simply 

 worked up by hand into balls. As a rule no temper- 

 ing agent seems to be used in the juice, but I believe 

 some makers add a little Magadi soda. The product 

 of this process is ,used almost entirely by the Indians. 

 It has a peculiar taste which Europeans do not as a 

 rule like. Even the Natives do not buy it if they 

 can get imported sugar, even at double the price. 



THE FIRST EX- It is only quite lately that Europeans have begun 



PERIMENTAL to take any interest in the Cane, though the Agricul- 

 PLANTATION. tural Department published a small leaflet on it many 

 years ago. So far as I know, the first sugar crystals 

 to be made in this country were made by myself, at 

 this farm, in March, 1914. I had been making ex- 

 periments in growing the canes for some years pre- 

 viously. The mill was a Chattanooga 3 roller mill, 

 moved by a pair of bullocks. The battery consisted 

 of 5 cast iron pans set very roughly over a trench, 

 leading to a chimney formed in a tall ant hill. This 

 was experimental work, as we had everything to 

 learn. The crystals produced were small and sticky,, 

 but the financial results were good enough to induce 

 us to persevere. We installed the same plant in 

 better style, and built the pans into a good stone 

 furnace with a proper chimney and fire bars. We 

 also fitted up a sugar house with barrels for draining 

 the sugar in the old fashioned West Indian style. 

 This turned out a very nice little outfit, and we pro- 

 duced some very respectable sugar, which we had 

 no difficulty in selling at remunerative prices. At. 

 this time the Government Analysts very kindly took 

 a lot of trouble in analysing canes and juices for us. 

 We also kept careful records of the yields of diflFerent 

 plots, both in canes and sugar. As all the results 

 pointed to good yields and rich juices, we consider- 

 ably increased the area under canes, and are now 

 installing a larger mill driven by a water wheel, and 



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