CANE SUGAR. 



This experiment shows that with a ' crushing ' up to 70 per cent, very 

 little ' rind juice ' is extracted. 



Megass collected from factories was also divided into two parts representa- 

 tive of the pith and rind ; each part was analysed separately with the 

 following results : 



These analyses bring out the fact that the pith megass, originally 

 the sweetest, is much more extracted than the rind megass, from which the 

 process of milling has taken comparatively little sugar. 



These results are approximately summarized in the following table which 

 conceives the cane as composed of pith and rind, from the former of which a 

 high extraction is obtained, a very efficient one resulting from the hard 

 impervious rind : 



REFERENCES IN CHAPTER XI. 



1. La. Planter, xli., 299. 



2. La. Planter, xxxvii., 261. 



3. Arch., 1896, p. 222. 



4. Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng., Nov., 1902. 



5. After Bull. 22. Agric. H.S.P.A. 



6. After Ball. 30. Agric. H. S. P. A. 

 1. I.S.J., 68. 



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