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Bagasse per cent. . . 39. 80 



Juice expressed do 60.2 



Specific gravity at 22° C 1. OGO 



Total solids „ per cent . . 15. 27 



Asli do 46 



Solids not sugar do 96 



Glucose do 4. 99 



Sucrose do 9.32 



I selected these canes at th« factory, prepared them, as already de- 

 scribed, for canes to be shipped by express. They were analyzed here 

 on the third day after they were cut. 



Further information concerning the Eio Grande factory will be found 

 in the following letter from Mr. Hughes, the superintendent, to whom 

 and the president of the company, Mr. Potts, I am indebted for many 

 courtesies : 



Rio Grande, N. J., December 6, 1883. 

 Sir: The mill commenced grinding September 10 and stopped November 14. The 

 aniount of unstripped cane ground was 6,795.811 tons. We made 282,711 pounds su- 

 gar and about 55,000 gallons molasses. 



Sucrose by polariscope, average for the season per cent.. 9. 75 



Sp. gr. Baum6, average for the season degrees. . 7. 57 



Against last year's polariscope per cent.. 11.11 



Sp. gr. Baume degrees.. 7.33 



The bulk of the crop was Amber and Orange; the per cent, of juice ranged from 55 

 per cent, to 40 jjer cent, on the unstripped canes ; over half the sugar being left in the 



We have two mills ; the second one was not properly rigged up. 



Being afraid the cane would get over ripe, as it has always done before, we planted 

 later than usual. The season turned out very wet and cold. The Orange did not 

 ripen until October 29, except in those fields where phosphoric acid was put in the 

 hill. A storm in September prostrated the Amber. For these two reasons we had 

 bad cane from September 24 to October 29. During this time no pan failed to granu- 

 late, but the yield of sugar was poor. From October 29 until the end of the season, 

 the cane was first rate. The extreme low price of sugar, and the high price of choice 

 New Orleans molasses caused us to make a better sirup than Ave would ordinarily 

 iiavedone. In this \vay over 100,000 pounds of sugar was allowed to go into the mo- 

 lasses simply because this year it paid to do it. 

 Yours, truly, 



H. A. HUGHES, 

 General Manager Bio Grande Sugar Company. 



Prof. H. W. Wiley. 



Table of data derived from preceding letter. 



Acres (about) 1,000 



Tons 6,795 



Tons per acre 6. 795 



Pounds sugar made 282, 711 



Pounds sugar per ton . 41. 6 



Gallons molasses 55, 000 



Gallons molasses per ton 8. 09 



Average per cent, of sugar in juice 9. 75 



Average per cent, of juice expressed 47. 00 



