has, m the. | pde struggle with beet, been. eadi in some estates 
-by by chemical methods by which’ the whole of the saccharine substance is 
extracted from the cane. But I will compare the Indian method with  . 
what: may be called the old West Indian system, ee with the scientific 
fa ban of later years. The cane juice or “ liquor” as it is called is 
aie ted as as it is extracted to a process of delete and clarify- 
ing in large vats, and is at once passed through several large “ tayches ” 
aS gpl is reduced to the condition ofa thick syrup. It is boiled 
at a low temperature in vacuum pans, by which means a more highly 
ceste wis is obtained. It is then placed in a centrifugal, a rapidly 
urning machine which separates the crystal from its es. syrup. 
: "The whole is cooled in large shallow vats and after mida put into hogs- 
; heals perforated so as to permit the molasses to rere through the 
s -When the molasses has been. drained off in the stanchions, the 
: Gabe: is said to be “cured” and is in the bea of the fine large 
p e oF yiaitinn, whitish brown sugar, or grocery sugar of com- 
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"T. “This process is very different from that adopted in this country ; 
, Togtond of. the large boiling-house with its long line of enormous copper 
_ “tayches,” its vacuum pans, and ingenious and economical heating 
. apparatus by means. of which the megass or woody fibre of the cance 
. alone suffices to make the sugar, its centrifugals and its curing room, we 
- have rough and improvised huts formed of branches and twigs placed at 
the corner of a cane-field, Here is put up a small crushing apparatus 
. generally of wood, consisting of two or three rollers of about t 11 feet 
- high and 10 inches in diameter and worked by a lever, moved by a 
t : 
ially Praed go it and cooled long before N m 
set in. The finished article is more like 
8. In later years the ore mill rollers have been suceeodod i in some 
-places by iron ones, the best known being the Beheea mill of Messrs. 
. Thomson, Mylne, & Co. "This, as far as the rollers are concerned, is a 
miniature of the vertical West Indian sugar mill. It is of course ‘only 
nces these mills are used, but i ny others the pe 0 
buy t ud declare that, on the whole, th wooden mills 
e better su to their wants. The reason probably is that the 
T village carpenter and blacksmith have to be su i | LI 
: | pported in any case 
whether they make the old-fashioned wooden mill or not, sai the 
re l : 
_ vats for sugar-boiling, but they are expensive and not. much appreciated, - 
pots. Iron rollers : and iron vats will no doubt in time supersede wooden — 
rollers and earthen: pots, but in these ipsius. the. James is still 
"i mixture of sand and dough sweetened with molasses than the sugar of a | 
commerce, Bu 
de intended for sugar making on a small scale. In some distriets of these , 
: r and most of the “ gur” of these provinces is made in large earthen — 
