xliv. 



Titnehri. 



" of sulphate of ammonia. Without it such land may yield 1^ to H tons 

 " of suoar per acre ; with it the same land may yield from 2\ to 3£ tons, 

 " the labour employed being the same." 



By special direction the enquiry was extended to cover the districts 

 in the North Western coastlands of the Colony which have never been 

 under cane- cultivation. Interest in its results is purely empirical as they 

 do not come within the sphere of practical utility. The utilisation of 

 lands in this area might possibly produce 1,500,000 tons of cane-sugar 

 per annum but in my opinion as well, I believe, as in that of every one 

 acquainted with the cultivation of the cane sugar industry in British 

 Guiana this estimate is of the nature of a vision ; — characteristic of 

 Nephelokokkugia. 



I may mention that in forming the estimate of the area of land 

 available for the extension of sugar-cane planting in the parts of the 

 colony in which the sugar-industry has been carried on only alluvial lands 

 to a mean depth of 2 miles from the coastal and river facades were 

 taken into account and from the total of these the areas which in 1914 

 were under cultivation with products other than sugar-cane were de- 

 ducted. 



The earlier progress and later stagnation of the sugar-industry is 

 illustrated in the following table : — 



Sugar Cane and Sugar Quinquennial Periods. 



The Rum Industry. 

 The fermentation and distillation processes on the sugar-estates have 

 been subject to, on the whole, little improvement during recent years. 



