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depends, therefore, upon the price offered for them for the 

 purpose, whether they are sold at once or reserved for a second 

 process of sugar manufacture. In this second process the 

 first droppings are first boiled and then placed under ground 

 in large earthen-ware pots to cool. Unless thus boiled they 

 would ferment but after being boiled in this fashion they on 

 cooling form into a mass somewhat like gur> but not nearly 

 so rich. After this, the previous process is again gone through, 

 and about 10% more weight in sugar is obtained. This sugar 

 is, however, coarser and darker in colour than the first. 



571. "The refiner is not very honest and if he is sure of 

 finding immediate sale, he will use a much more speedy pro- 

 cess. Taking the cooled gur he will squeeze out the molasses 

 by compressing the mass in a sack, and then, drying and 

 breaking up the remainder, will sell it as sugar. It does not 

 look much different from that prepared in the more elabo- 

 rate fashion, but it will likely soon ferment and hence the 

 necessity of finding an immediate purchaser. 



572. "The remainder, after all, this sugar has been 

 squeezed out, isj molasses, chitiya gur as it is called. It 

 forms a separate article of commerce. 



573. '* The sugar produced by the method just described 

 is called dhulua sugar, a'soft, yellowish sugar. It can never 

 be clean, because it is clear from the process used, that what- 

 ever impurity there may originally be in the gur } or whatever 

 impurity may creep into the sugar during its somewhat rough 

 process of manufacture, must always appear in the finished 

 article. Another objection to it is, that it leads slightly to li- 

 quefaction, and cannot therefore be kept for any considerable 

 time. 



574. " The 'pucca? sugar is a much cleaner and more 

 permanent article. It has also a granular structure, which the 

 dhulua has not. The manufacture of it is more expensive 

 than of the other, and the price of it when finished is about 

 Rs. 10, whereas dhulua costs only about Rs.6 per mnd. 



