THE CONTROL OF THE FACTORY. 



Stock-takings. At fixed intervals a stock-taking of all the factory 

 products should be made ; the scheme used by the writer is as follows : 



Tons. 



Sugar packed 2367*2 



First massecuite estimated to give 43 '1 

 Syrup .. 8-3 



Juice ,, ,, .. 3-2 



Low massecuites 55-4 



Per cent, on Sucrose 

 in Cane. 



82-3 

 82'7 



Current period 518'1 .. 408'1 .. 81'5 



Expression of Results. The writer is in favour of keeping two 

 sets of accounts, one for the mill and one for the boiling house, since the pro- 

 cesses in these two departments are radically distinct ; eventually these two sets 

 should be combined and a final statement made, showing the yield and losses 

 per 100 cane and per 100 sugar in cane. A statement based only on cane and 

 sugar in cane does not sufficiently specify the losses which, if excessive, may be 

 due to bad mill work or to inefficient work in the boiling house. The writer 

 has spent much time in trying to draw up a scheme, that will include in one 

 sheet all the necessary determinations, and has finally abandoned the idea in 

 favour of keeping separate books for the mills, for the juices, and for the pans. 

 The headings that should be systematically entered up are : 



Mills. Weight of cane ; sugar per cent, in cane ; fibre per cent, in cane ; 

 sugar obtained per 100 cane and per 100 sugar in cane ; dilution per cent, on 

 normal juice; water added per 100 cane; efficiency of added water; sugar 

 per cent, in megass ; water per cent, in megass per cent. ; fibre per cent, in 

 megass; sugar in megass per 100 cane and per 100 sugar in cane. 



Juices. Total solids, sugar per cent, and purity of first mill, mixed, 

 clarified, and last mill juices ; mixed juice per 100 cane ; sugar in mixed juice 

 per 100 cane and per 100 sugar in cane; available sugar with reference to the 

 actually observed purities of clarified juice and of waste molasses. 



Sugars. Weight; Sucrose per cent. ; weight of sucrose; sucrose per 100 

 sucrose in juice, per 100 sucrose in cane and per 100 cane ; tons of cane per 

 ton of sugar ; sucrose per 100 available sucrose. 



Massecuites. See above under the section headed ' Control of the Pan and 

 Centrifugal Plant.' 



Waste Molasses. Total solids, sugar per cent, and purity ; weight ; 

 weight per 100 cane ; sucrose per 100 cane and per 100 sucrose in cane and 

 in juice. 



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