2So THE STATE OFCANE SUGAR MANUFACTURE IN FORMOSA. 



hard, and has by capillary attraction removed the coloured 

 mother-liquor from between the crystals. 



Onethird of the sugar presentis thus decolourised. The result- 

 ing white sugar is removed, and new softened clay is placed upon 

 the still brown part in the vessel which is thus decolourised in 

 about twenty days. Therefore, the decolourisation of one jar is 

 a work of about thirty days. This description shows the ex- 

 ceedingly primitive condition of the sugar manufacture in Formo- 

 sa. My enterprising countrymen will certainly by application 

 of modern systems change this state of things, so that Japan will 

 be able to supply its own market entirely with home-made 

 sugar. 



According to the Custom House returns, the amount of 

 sugar exported from Formosa to Japan proper and to China was 



Brown sugar. White sugar, 



in 1890 ^7^-771 45-869 



1893 480.529 ■• 29.391 •■ 



1895 570.966 •■ 59-483 " 



If we take into account the quantity consumed by the native 

 population, the total annual amount of sugar produced is about 

 1,600,000 tan or a hundred million kilos. The amount of brown 

 sugar imported to Japan proper was 



in 1890 344,945 j in 1893 180,934'''" 



1891 273,378- j ,, 1894 309.757" 



1892 262,892- I 1895 243719" 



(I) One tan is equal to about 63 kilo. 



