Fuel for the first 2 days ... ... ... i o o 



Quick-lime, phosphoric acid, and litmus paper ... i o o 

 Cost of employing a man for making sugar and assisting 



in #r-making ... ... ... 3 oo 



80 earthen pots ... ... ... ... 4 o o 



Interest and depreciation ... ... ... 2 o o 



Rent of land ... ... ... 3 o o 



TOTAL Rs. 160 o o 



Outturn. 40 maunds of native white sugar at Rs. 6 ... Rs. 240 

 5 maunds of clean molasses at Rs, 2 per maund ... Rs. 10 



TOTAL Rs. 250 



619. If Chewing Canes are sold, 20,000 canes sold at 

 i pice each, would mean a gross income of about Rs. 300 per 

 acre. In this case the cost of ^wr-making is saved, but for grow- 

 ing superior varieties a little more expenditure on account of 

 irrigation, hoeing and tying the canes, will bring up the total 

 to about Rs. 150 per acre without the cost of ^wr-making. 

 The cost after the first year in the case of ratooned varieties, 

 is less, by about Rs. 30 per acre. In Bihar, where wages can 

 be calculated at 2 as., the cost of growing an acre of sugar- 

 cane may come to only about Rs. 100 or even less. 



620. For killing jackals and pigs, a gun should be in 

 constant use in a sugar-cane plantation. Dogs may be also 

 kept for the same purpose, specially as they may prove very 

 useful in the apprehension of thieves. 



621. Crushing of Canes. With a two-rollered Behia Mill 

 (Fig. 57) one gets only about 58 per cent, of juice out of 



FIG. 57. THE BEHIA MILL 



