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Dr. Crarnptcm bas made the following report respecting the extrac- 

 tion of sugar : 



Tho mill juice from exhausted chips contained 1.03 per cent, of total sugars. This 

 givoa the total sugars as U2.04 per cent, of the amount contained in the cane. Sup- 

 posing the ratio of glucose to sucrose in the exhausted chips for the whole season to 

 have been the same as that shown during the time that the two sugars were esti- 

 mated separately, the average sucrose remaining would be .68 per cent, in the juice, 

 or .61 per cent, of the chips themselves. This would give an extraction of 92.87 per 

 cent, of the total sucrose present in the cane. 



This is not so good an extraction as has been obtained in previous experiments with 

 diffusion on cane. It is explained by Professor Swenson on the ground that the chijis 

 were not made fine enough, gaps in the knives of the small cutters, made by stones, 

 etc., getting into it, allowing of the passage of comparatively large pieces of cane. 



