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401. Duri ing the same years the per-centage of Jamaica sugars 
pae to the United Kingdom and other countries was as 
fo 
PERCENTAGE of SUGAR EXPORTED to the following countries, 
: United 
Years. waited - | Seren ati}: Canadas. |: 0 
Kingdom. Á erión Countries. 
1881-82 60°17 8: 30:55 -95 
1882-83 41-65 13°46 41°04 3°85 
1886-87 9°19 83-00 6-01 1s 
1887-88 36-08 51°68 8°85 3°39 
1-92 97 93-28 4:16 1:59 
1892-93 516 89'18 4°03 1°63 
4-95 5'15 89°33 4°46 1-06 
1895-96 13°83 82-43 2-46 1:28 
the sugar een! ced waia one time received a 
large share, but latterly the shipments to that country h e 
of a trifling chara S ents to the United Kingdom 
have been of a fluctuating character, but the general tendency 
has been to avoid sending sugars to London prea driven there 
by unfavourable vonditions in the New York market 
403. The annual production of rum is a little over two million 
gallons. The exports have been almost entirely pagent to the 
United Kingdom, the percentage being as high in some years 
as 94 per cent. and never below 82 per cent. Latterly, Germany 
has received a share of Jamaica rum; the direct exports to that 
country in 1893 being as high as 11- 08 per cent. ; in 1895-96 they 
were slightly lower, viz., 9°55 per cent. 
404. Should the sugar m Br Jamaica be still more 
adversely affected by low w pri mber of small settlers will 
e affected as well as t mpa jnierecied. in the sugar estates 
were paid in 1895-96 5,064 acres in canes cultivated by 
easants on their own pareden It is possible that canes are 
also grown in small patches not specially apama saa he 
Assistant Colonial Secretary states, “There are now over 6,000 
“small sugar mills owned by the peasantry.” These are, pro- 
bably, cattle mills. Mr. Craig, in evidence, mentioned that the 
settlers “ e to make a good quality of sugar, which, after 
“ Since the pace e has fallen om class of sugar has almost gone 
- s but still the small settlers make some sugar, and either sell 
“ it in the local market or e the sugar estates.” The Joma now 
is ‘os 6d. per barre l; but, it is added, “it cannot pay to produce 
“ it at that price.” o e-farming, as carried on in Trinidad, does 
Jaai siia to have been tried, at least on an appreciable scale, in 
amai 
405. T sugar estates in Jamaica have | y 
privilege of obtaining new varieties of canes for ikni 
