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ae only raw or muscovado sugar, and were too small to 
rrant the cost of erecting modern machinery ge appliances, or 
Derine there was a lack of funds to carry them on. 
134. It is estimated that the total amount of Ciia invested by 
n ore Popa is about 2,500,000/., of which three-fourths 
machinery and oth i 
n process uscovado sugars. At 
time the same average total crop is manufactured on = estates, 
common muscov. = sugar six with an output pe about 
5,900 tons, make entrifagal muscovado Bi while all the 
remaining estates "36 in number, make m pan su It 
gar 
may be accepted, therefore, that on the acas pore in Trinidad, 
with t few exceptions, “ advantage has been taken of the m 
“ modern improvements in boilers, furnaces, multiple eva eee 
- Spank mills and other aie fies zand that most of the estates 
“are now fully equipped for producing the best qualities of sugar 
at the cheapest possible rates 
135. Trinidad makes a [argo quantity of sugar known as ‘ ‘ yellow 
crystals,” which goes into direct consumption in this country, and 
for which a higher price is paid than for refining sugar. 
136. The value of the various aE paee ao of sugar exported 
during the last six years is as follo 
—— 1891. 1892. | 1893. | 1894, 1895. 1896. 
£ £ £ £ £ £ 
Muscovado si va 234,239 164,120 157,296 96,389 46,002 35,509 
Centrifugal we ia 143,348 118,717 491 "759 343,989 165,722 293,177 
Vacuum Pan .. ae 285,202 $92,505 108.882 157,632 384,691 371,661 
Total .. re 662,789 675,342 | 757,937 598,010 596,415 | 700,347 
137. It will be noticed that the value of common muscovado 
sugar has decreased oot at =. in 1891 to 35,5097. in 1896, 
while the value of va actory sugar of a higher class, 
has increased from 285, 2021. a "1891 to 371,6617. in 1896. 
138. The principal markets for Trinidad sugars are in the 
United Kingdom and the United States. More than one half, or 
29,333 tons out of a total crop of 54,730 tons, was shipped to the 
United Kingdom in 1895. The quantity shipped ne the United 
States was 24,750 tons; to all other countries Sot ton 
139. Very little information is available regar 
character of the cultivation an the system of mainat followed 
on Trinidad estates. There no agricultural chemist actively 
i S t 
undertaken by the superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, acting 
in co-operation with a sub-committee of the Agricultural Society 
