PART SECOND. 



ON THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR. 



CHAPTER I. 



LOSSES SUSTAINED BY IMPERFECT MANUFACTURE — COMPOSITION OF 



THE CANE AND ITS JUICE STATE IN WHICH SUGAR EXISTS IN THE 



CANE. 



I come now to the second nortion of mv subject — the 

 necessity for adopting a more correct process of sugar manu- 

 facture, the method commonly practised being, as we have 

 stated, very imperfect, not only causing a vast loss of 

 saccharine matter, but making the largest portion of that 

 which is brought to the market of so inferior a quality 

 as to be unremunerative. 



It is for the mutual interest of planter and merchant that 

 an improvement should be effected, because the first will 

 derive a larger revenue from the increased quantity and 

 value of his sugar, and the latter will not only find employ- 

 ment for a greater amount of shipping, but, as under 

 proper management, there would be no loss incurred by 



