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which falls upon the general revenue for immigration purposes 
is 7,900}. This is for office expenses, inspectors, hospitals, and 
medical attendance. 
SUGAR INDUSTRY. 
391. The area pies götten 3 in sugar cane is 30,036 acres, 
equal to I-14 per cent, of the cultivable area, and equal to 
lo-4 per cent of “all lands under crops in the Colony, or to 
er cent. the lands producing exportable crops. It is 
approximately estimated by the Sugar Planters’ Association that 
the amount of capital invested in = sugar industry is 1 ,167,000/., 
and that the annual amount ded in wages amongst the 
labouring and tradesmen aiae is 37 s 3007. 
392. The number of sugar estates at present existing in the 
Colony, with an area exceeding 500 acres, is 137. These have a 
total area of 266,903 acres, of which 24,785 acres are canes. 
There are ghee estates over aoe bi A over Farg acres, Wag a 
total area of 1,314 acres, of wh 187 acres In 
"aay there are 5,064 pai in ce eased es call 
393. It would appear, therefore, that there are 140 sugar estates 
in ne ag with a total area of 268,217 acres, of which 24,972 acres 
are in canes. These, with the 5, 064 acres in canes owned by small 
settlers, bring the total up t o 30, 036 acres. The export of sugar 
1895-96 was 21,930 tons, pa allowi ing for that locally consumed 
Fane third of the whole), ae ave upa production may be estimated 
at a little over one ton per a 
394. Steam power is ae E on 95 estates, Fapa power on 38, 
Water and steam on 3, and cattle on 4. Raw or common musco- 
vado sugar is epee on 40 estates, and cai centrifugal 
alae n 98. fa estates only employ a vacuum pan and triple 
ra an important product in Jamaica, and is distilled 
on ‘138 out of 140 ates. In recent years the rum crop has bee 
ft the sugar crop. There is eua 
produced a cask of r 100 gallons) for every ton of sugi It 
is estimated by the a Planters’ ree that “the avert 
“cost of produ ction of one ton of sugar (muscoy ado, cured by 
“ centrifugal) and 100 gallons of a rum is 20%.” 
395. In one district Mr. Farquharson stated it had been brought 
down to 16. DS. y While in the parish of Westmoreland it had been 
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respectively. The percentage of extraction of juice on Jamaica 
estates is not given, neither are any data in regard to the recovery 
of sugar during the process of manufacture 
396. It is admitted, honni r, that the introduction of new 
Machinery would assist to lessen the cost of production ; also that 
an amalgamation of estates in i ane districts, and the meer of 
a central factory “would effect a considerable savi is 
pointed out that “ except in the matter of crushing the cane, S0 
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