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very expensive. The careful weighings and measurings 

 keep back the work ; and all the time wages and con= 

 sumption of fuel go on. 



Attached to this small factory might be a miniature 

 estate, of say 50 acres, laid out in plots, or fields, of an 

 acre or so each. In these plots questions conne6led with 

 agriculture, such as the best system of irrigation, the 

 values of different manures, the advantages of different 

 kinds of canes, and the possibility of obtaining fecundated 

 cane seed, could be solved ; and in the experimental 

 fa6lory, experiments could be conducted on such subje6ls 

 as new styles of mills, diffusion, different systems 

 of defecation, the a6tion of various chemicals on the 

 juice, methods of evaporation, best ways of hanging 

 boilers &c., &c., besides all the questions conne6led 

 with the distillery. These questions, which are of the 

 very greatest importance to the welfare of our staple 

 industry, could be solved at small cost. As it is, planters 

 are groping more or less in the dark, deterred from 

 settling many matters by experiments, owing to the 

 great expense and risk attending them. 



