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grows freely in the Kabodok especially, is placed on. the bas- 

 kets so as to rest on the top of the sugar. The effect of the 

 weed is to keep up a continual moisture, and this moisture, 

 descending through the sugar, carries the molasses with it, leav- 

 ing the sugar comparatively white and free from molasses. 

 After eight days' exposure with shyala leaves, about 4 inches 

 are cut off and shyala applied on the newly exposed surface. 

 This and one other application will be sufficient to purify 

 the whole mass. 



569. "The sugar thus collected is moist, and it is therefore 

 put out to dry in the sun, being just chopped up so as to prevent 

 it caking. When dried it is a fair, lumpy, raw sugar, and it 

 weighs about 30% of the original mass, the rest of the gur, 

 having passed off in molasses. Dishonest refiners can get 

 more weight out of it by diminishing the exposure under 

 shyala weed, so as to leave it only 5 or 6 days, instead of 8. 

 The molasses is less perfectly driven out and the sugar there- 

 fore weighs more. Of course, it has also a deeper colour but 

 this is in a measure remedied by pounding under a dhenki. 

 There are also other dishonest means of increasing the 

 weight, for example, the floors of the refineries are sometimes 

 a foot or more beneath the level of the ground outside, the 

 difference representing the amount of dust which has been 

 carefully swept up with the sugar when it is gathered up 

 after drying. Also, it is very easy to break the pots so that 

 fragments of them remain among the sugar. 



570. "The first droppings, gathered in the open pan in the 

 manner described above, are rich in sugar, and are used, especi- 

 ally in the north-west, for mixing up with food. It entirely 



ous presence of the moisture gradually washing away the glucose that is so 

 effective in making brown-sugar white. The author has tried bleaching the 

 gurby keeping over it wet sponges, but failed, and he has found the Vallisneria 

 verticillata possessing the bleaching property in a more marked manner than 

 the other aquatic weeds mentioned . above 



