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:n:i. Instructions and details as to soil, management and 

 manufacture, hv Dr. Jameson and .Mr. Fortune. Dr. Campbell's 

 Mr. A. M irfarlaiie's Import. The Kast India tea plantation-; 

 in the North-West Provinces. Kxperimental cultivation of the tea plant 

 in Hra/il ; M. (Jeullemin's report thereon. Paraguay Tea: Mr. 

 Itohcrtson's description of the collection and manufacture. 

 x>/ir. Plants from which il is usually obtained. The sugar cane; its 

 range nf cult ivat ion. Production in our colonies. Consumption in the 

 last ten years. Improvement! in sugar machinery and manufacture. 

 Quantity of cane sugar annually produced and sent into the markets. 

 Local consumption in India. Present European supply; demand 

 according to the consumption in England. Estimated annual pro- 

 duction throughout the world. Consumption in the principal 

 Kuropean countries. Average annual consumption in the United 

 Kingdom. Comparative amount of beet-root and cane sugar produced 

 in the last f.-ur years. Cnzittc prices of sugar in the last ten years. 

 Production of sugar in the United States. Production in Cuba. Pro- 

 duction in the British West Indies. Production in Mauritius. Sta- 

 of imports from the Mauritius. Production in the British Kast 

 fi:ilies. Production in Java. Production in the Philippines. Chemical 

 distinction between cane and grape sugar. Varieties of the sugar cane 

 cultivated. Possibility of raising the cane from seed. Analysis of the 

 cane, and of a sugar soil. Chemical examination of cane juice. Va- 

 cuum pans. Boiling and tempering. Composition of cane juice. Ra- 

 mos's prepared plantain juice. Professor Fowncs on the manufacture 

 of sugar. Expression of cane juicr. Construction of the sugar mill. 

 Quantity of juice obtained by each kind of mill. Position of rollers. 

 of culture and varieties in the East Indies. Soils considered 

 best adapted for its luxuriant growth. Manures. Sets and planting. 

 Aftergrowth. Harvesting. Injuries, from seasons, storms, insects, 

 &c. Mode of cultivation in the Brazils ; in \atal ; expenses. Com- 

 parison between the cost of production in Mauritius and Xatal. Com- 

 parative cost in free and slave countries. Beet-root sugar : variety 

 cultivated; mode of expression and manufacture; yield of sugar ; es- 

 timated profit ; extensive production in France; production in the 

 statistics of the Prussian Provinces of Saxony ; Rus- 

 sia, Belgium and Austria. A Visitor's account of the French manu- 

 factories. Mr. Colman's opinion. Proportion of sugar in the beet. 

 Mapl-i Sugar : description of the tree ; its production limited to Amer- 

 ica ; extent of the manufacture in Canada and the United States ; pro- 

 cesses employed ; statistics of production, \aize Sugar. 



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Statistics of iritcnt Culture. Exports of flour from the United States. 

 Adaptation of the soil and climate of the United States to the culture 

 of the cereals. Export of sophisticated (damaged) flour. Kiln drying 

 of bread stuffs and exclusion of air. Value of the "whole meal" of 

 \vhi at as compared with that of the fine flour. Nutritious properties of 

 various articles of food. Composition of wheat and wheat-flour, and 

 the modes of determining their nutritive value. Rotation of crops in 

 \ioji with wheat culture. Production and consumption of the 

 United Kingdom. Statistics of other countries. Barley, Oats, Rye, 

 Buckwheat, Maize: Indian corn and meal imported. "Crop and ex- 

 port-; of United States. System of culture. Rico : Statistics of pro- 

 duction and culture in Carolina. The Bhull rice lands of Lower Scinde. 

 :i Kashmir; exports froiifAi -racan. Millet. Broom Corn. Cheno- 

 podiuiu Quinoa. Fundi or Fundungi. Pulse. The Sago Palme. 

 Manufacture an*l i-xt.-m of the trade in Singapore. The bread-fruit tree! 



