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entire experiment was abandoned. The analyses of the juices and sirnp only are 

 given : 



Analyses of juices and sirnp from cane Variety No. 160. 



The re- 



This sirup has evidently deteriorated in the processes of manufacture, 

 duction in the purity is due to inversion in the triple effect. 



EXPERIMENT NO. 5 ORDINARY AND ALCOHOL PROCESSES, 



Date : October 7, 1891. 



Variety and plats: Early orange; plats 8 and 32. 



Gross cane (topped cane) tons.. 24.375 



Trash do... 5.035 



Clean cane do... 19.340 



Clean cane removed in samples do. . . . 142 



Cane lost on account of bad weather do ... . 899 



Skimmings lost, calculated to clean cane do . 983 



Net clean cane worked do... 17.315 



Mean weight of clean cane per cell pounds. .319 



Trash, per cent clean cane 20. 7 



Juice analyses. 



Exhausted chips. 

 Sucrose lost in the exhausted chips, per cent cane, 0.97 (mean of seventeen analyses). 



Sirups. 



The sirup was divided into equal parts, A and B, and the B portion treated with 

 alcohol. The analyses before and after treatment are given below : 



