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cussed ; the chief points for and against the process 

 may be briefly summed up as in the table. 



ADVANTAGES. 



Complete removal of sugar. 

 Greater purity of juice. 



DISADVANTAGES. 



Difficulty in slicing canes. 



Process and machinery com- 

 plicated. 



Juice being diluted, cost of 

 evaporation increased. 



Chips, being saturated with 

 water, are unfit for burning 

 without drying, hence ill adapt- 

 ed for fuel. 



So far as the smaller sugar-growing colonies are 

 concerned, diffusion at present appears to be quite 

 out of the question. Even where it has been tried 

 on a large scale in the West Indies its success has 

 been in several cases problematical. Double or triple 

 crashing is for the present the safest line on which 

 to advance when all the circumstances influencing 

 sugar growing in the West Indies are taken into 

 account. This is no place for a lengthy discussion 

 of the merits of diffusion as compared to crushing, 

 and this brief outline must suffice. 



