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following extract from Mr. Acting Consul- rime ei s Report 
on the Trade o of the Hawaiian Islands for the y 1897 (Foreign 
Office, Annual Series, 2193, pp. 7 » 8), € gives an feereting account 
of the state of their sugar industry 
“The sugar industry of the Islands prospered during ‘the year 
1897, all the plantations paying large dividends. 
Although the financial success of the sugar business 1s largely 
due to the treaty of reciprocity with the United States, there can 
be no doubt that a considerable measure of it is also due to the 
intelligent systems which have been adopted by the planting 
apes n SN and to the iseedisntion of improved methods of 
agricultu es manufactur 
A fe s ago the sugar ee of the Islands formed them- 
selves iioc s association, and established a laboratory and 
experimental station, from whic h much benefit has been derived. 
The director of this association makes periodical visits to the 
plantations, and prescribes such fertilisers as may be required, 
zer a — ANIM: s > soils has been made by the chemists 
f the asso nalyses of all fertilisers used by the 
is ey us = en, by the manufacturers, who are not — D 
paid until their goods pass the tests made for the buyers. In this 
way fraud and careless manufacture are checked, and the planters 
ed. 
After much experimenting it Has bee REG decided that the  — 
the 
most effective machine for the extraction of the juice from the 
cane is the * nine-roll-mill," which is made up of pem three-roll- 
mills, so that the cane is pressed six times,and on its passage 
from one mill to the next it is subjected to “ eine d 
means of a stream of hot water, which assists in forcing the cane 
to yield its juice. The rollers of these mills vary in size, but the 5 
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vids though er mills in use and now being erected have 
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the National Shredders are used in several factories in front of 
the mills, and they are ir en to do good work in the prepara- s 
tion of the cane for the r 
Clarification of juice Na the Deming apparatus is gradually E 
extending, and crystallisation in motion is now pede the 
attention Sa those interested in the introduction of what 
amo ont the an velties of sugar-maki 
` Amongst the advantages claimed for the Deming system by 
those acquainted with its "ON are, that it economises from | 
