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CONTENTS. 



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SuGAE. — General remarks — Estimate of production of all kinds of sugar 



— Value of the cane sugar exported from the principal British pos- 

 sessions in decennial periods — Statistics of sugar production m the 

 West India Islands — Cane sugar production of the world in 1876 



— Beetroot production of Eui'ope in 1876 — Estimated aggregate and 

 individual consumption of sugar in the world — Total consumption in 

 the United Kingdom — From whence derived — Molasses — The sup- 

 plies we receive — Kum and imports — Varieties of the sugar-cane — 

 Experimental culture in Trinidad — Production of sugar, molasses, and 

 rum in British Guiana — Mode of cultivation — French Guiana — 

 Surinam, statistics of exports — Brazil, production and progress — Ship- 

 ments from Pernambuco — British Honduras — Central America — 

 Colombia — Venezuela — Statistics of exports — Peru, shipments to 

 England — Louisiana, introduction of the sugar-cane and progress 

 made in production — Chemical results — India — Eude processes of 

 culftrre and manufactui-e — Burdwan — Scinde — Statistics of ship- 

 ments of sugar from British India — Siam — China — Exports — 

 Mauritius — Varieties of cane grown — Improved manufacture — Che- 

 mical analyses — Statistics of exports — Reunion — Straits Settlements 



— Philippines — Statistics of exports — Java — Borneo — Sandwich 

 Islands — Fiji Islands — Tihiti — Queensland — New South Wales — 

 Victoria — Egypt — Processes of manufacture — Introduction of im- 

 proved machinery — Chemistry and physics of sugar manufacture — 

 Statistics of exports of sugar from Egypt — Jamaica — Statistics of yield 

 of crops and shipments — Barbados crops — Tortola — St. Kitts — 

 Analyses of sugar-canes — Dominica — Statistics of exports of sugar, 

 molasses, and rum — Montserrat — St. Lucia — Grenada — St. Vincent 



— Statistics of exports — Trinidad — Progress of culture — Distribution 

 of estates — Statistics of exports — Martinique ■ — Statistics of produc- 

 tion — Account of the usines or central sugar factories on the island — 

 Eeports on their worMnn; operations and financial results — St. Croix — 

 Porto Eico — Shipments of sugar and molasses — Cuba — Crops and 

 shipments 128 



Maple Sugar. — Description of the tree — Statistics of the sugar crop in 

 the United States and Canada 211 



Palm Sugab. — Trees which yield it — General estimate of production of 

 sugar — Details of yield and processes, &c., furnished under the section 

 of The Useftil Palms 213 



Beeteoot Stjgae. — Statistics of production in Europe — Process of culti- 

 vation and manufacture — Production and consumption in France — 

 Cane sugar received in France 213 



Glucose, oe Starch Sugar. — Quantity made in Germany from potatoes ; 

 in the United States from maize ' 217 



SoEGHUM Sugar.— Desciiption of the plant — Cultivated in Australia, 

 France, Algeria, and the United States 218 



SECTION II. — The Useful Palms and theie Economic Peoducts. 



The Cocoanut Palm.— Instructions for planting — Soils best suited for it 



— Growth of the tree — Its enemies — Produce — Cultivated varieties 

 of this palm — Uses of the fruit — Its medicinal properties — Chemical 

 analysis — Copperah or copra — Cocoanut oil — Its uses — Statistics of 

 imports into the United Kingdom — Particulars and cost of machinery for 

 making the oil — Uses of the cocoanut shells — Cocoanut fibre or coir — 

 Statistics of exports from Ceylon — Imports into the United Kingdom 



— Cost of machinery for preparing the fibre — Wide range of the cocoa- 



