THE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY. PART L 



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Table X. — The production of sap from the nipa palm, etc. — Continued. 



PANGASINAN PROVINCE. 



Distil- 

 lery. 



Period of nipa tuba production. 



Tuba 



distilled in 



liters. 



Yield of 

 alcohol in 

 proof liters. 



Per cent 

 of alco- 

 hol ob- 

 tained 



from the 

 tuba. 



1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



14 



15 



16 



17 



18 



19 



20 



21 



22 



Year 1909 .... . 



94,500 



387, 720 



961, 400 



81, 900 



538,600 



311,670 



50,400 



89, 100 



22, 400 



800 



276, 105 



266, 400 



299, 250 



367, 200 



28, 800 



337, 920 



330,260 



146, 050 



60,060 



35,200 



44, 720 



27, 600 



9,962 



37, 430 



100,533 



8,789 



71,545 



40,504 



5,801 



7,236 



2,054 



76 



29, 245 



39, 958 



30, 132 



40, 610 



3,038 



43, 013 



31,820 



20, 711 



6,171 



3,017 



6,829 



3,577 



5.1 



4.8 



4.8 



5.4 



6.6 



6.5 



5.8 



4.1 



4.9 



4.75 



5.3 



7.5 



5.4 



5.5 



5.3 



6.4 



4.8 



7.1 



5.1 



4.3 



7.6 



6.5 



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Xinety-seven per cent of the total alcohol produced from nipa sap is obtained 

 from the districts tabulated above. 



Twelve provinces from time to time have been engaged in the industry 

 of distilling nipa sap. During the past fiscal year, the business was con- 

 ducted in only sis of these and the total quantity of alcohol produced 

 was the greatest since the American occupation of the Islands. The 

 development of the industry since the enactment of the present Internal 

 Eevenue Law is set forth in Table III in the introduction (pp. 102 and 

 103). 



There has been a marked decrease in the number of distilleries oper- 

 ating. When the present Internal Eevenue Law was first enforced the 

 large majority of the distilleries were small and very crude. The progres- 

 sive establishments have crowded out the unprogressive ones and have 

 continually improved and enlarged their plants under the advice and 

 assistance of the Collector of Internal Eevenue, whose agents are constantly 

 on the ground. 



Conditions in the Province of Pangasinan. — The conditions in the 

 Province of Pangasinan are somewhat typical. The distilleries in that 

 locality use nipa sap almost exclusively as a raw material. It is only 



