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262. In the above table it will be noticed that the value of the 
total exports of the produce of the Colony in 1896 was only 38 
per cent. of what it was in 1882. 
h owth of subsidiary industries from 1882 to 1893 was 
very satisfactory ; but owing to an excessive fall in the price of 
i e-half. 
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3,161/.; cotton, 1817. ; firewood, 1,082.. ; ground-nuts, 3127. ; 
cattle, sheep, and pigs, 2,741/. ; whale oil, 580/.; peas, 4652 ; 
spice, 6797. ; vegetables and fruit, 2,687.. 
SUGAR INDUSTRY. 
263. The position of the sugar epee in St. Vincent, as shown 
by the above table, has been in radually decaying "condition 
during the last 15 years. The peri number of estates now 
The, area now under canes is only 1,201 acres, or about 10 per cent. 
Professor Harrison, who has nab carefully studied the sugar 
industry in St. sci states that on the majority of the estates 
the land appears to have been systematically starved for several 
years back ; while cane diseases, both borer and fungus, have also 
been more prevalent in St. Vincent than in any other part of the 
West Indies. Asregards the cultivation, the manual part is not 
backward, but manufacture of sugar Professor Harrison 
describes “as in a most deplosahty backward state.” He points 
“ used) is very defici in the boiling-house little 
care seems to be oven with the clarification of the juice, and 
ar sugar produced is of low quality.” All the sugar is open 
or muscovado sugar, and is almost entirely shipped to the 
United States 
264. Worcs Harrison is of opinion that “in ean districts 
“ the erection of factories with modern appliance 
“would pay during years of average price ; but i in years “when 
“ prices are low, the erection of factories capable of making less 
‘than 4,000 tons per annum would not be of advantage 
. the only district in which a factory of this 
‘ size could be worked ‘ e C 
- » « the cost of suc ch a factory would be 50,0007.” 
l value of the produce under the present system is 
estimated at 20,400/., while with a central factory it would 
probably be 29, 6507, or an increase of 9,250/. on the value of 
muscovado produ 
265. It is stated Professor Harrison that “the planters of 
“St. Vincent are handicapped by the fact that the Colony is too 
“ small to justify the appointment of a resident chemist, and that 
“ there is not any person resident in it who possesses the requisite 
