June i, 1S94.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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CEYLON MANUAL OF CHEMICAL ANALYSES. 
A HANDBOOK OF ANALYSES CONNECTED WITH THE INDUSTRIES AND PUBLIC HEALTH OE CEYLON 
FOR PLANTERS, COMMERCIAL MEN, AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS, AND MEMBERS OF LOCAL BOARDS. 
By M. COCHRAN, m.a., f.c.s. 
(Continued from page 730.) 
CHAPTER XIT. 
SUGAR, HONEY, SPIRITUOUS AND MALT LIQUORS, WINES. 
Sugar — unrefined sugar— commercial sugars— honey— table of analyses of honey- 
strength OF spirituous liquors— whisky— rum— brandy— gin— arrack— MALT LIQUORS— 
UTAKAMAND beer— TABLE OF ANALYSES OF MALT LIQUORS— TABLE OF ANALYSES OF WINES. 
Sugar. 
Sugar is prepared in Ceylon at Baddegama from the juice of the sugarcane, saccharuiii 
officinarum ; but I have not seen any analyses of the locally-prepared article. 
The following is an analysis I made for the Ceylon Customs of a good sample of unrefined 
sugar, imported to Ceylon : — 
Analysis of Unrefined Sugar, imported to Ceylon. 
per cent. 
Moisture .. .. .. 2-60 
Sucrose . . . . . . 94-80 
Glucose .. .. .. 2-00 
Insoluble matter . . . . "12 
Ash ,. .. .. .. -16 
Undetermined . . . . . . -32 
10000 
I add a table shewing the composition of the chief sugars of commerce :— 
TABLE OF ANALYSES OF COMMERCIAL SUGARS. 
(From Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis.) 
Description of Sugar. 
Sucrose. 
Glucose. 
Insolu- 
ble mat- 
ter. 
Ash. 
Water. 
Organic 
matter 
not 
sugar. 
Authority. 
Raw Cane Sugars. 
per cent. 
per cent. 
per cent. 
oer cent. 
per cent. 
per cent. 
West India 
94-4 
2-2 
•1 
•2 
2-8 
•3 
W^. Wallace. 
Dominica 
88-.3 
3 -.36 
1 -22 
4-95 
2-17 
Wigner and Harland, 
Jamaica 
90-40 
3-47 
-36 
4-22 
1-55 
do 
Porto Rica 
87-50 
4-84 
•81 
4-25 
2-60 
do 
Trinidad 
88-00 
5-14 
•96 
4-23 
1-67 
do 
Surinam 
86-80 
4-31 
2-28 
5-27 
1-34 
do 
China 
72-50 
9-19 
1-80 
6-76 
9-75 
do 
Benares 
94-50 
2-63 
1-50 
•98 
-39 
do 
White Java 
9S-20 
•20 
-20 
-40 
trace 
do 
Unclayed Manilla 
82-00 
6-79 
2-00 
5-97 
3-24 
do 
Raw Beet Sugars. 
Beet (average of 7) 
9.3-64 
trace 
1-67 
2-62 
2-07 
J. Bell. 
Beet .. 
89-15 
2-63 
4-26 
3-96 
H. Gill. 
Beet .. 
95-70 
-30 
1-60 
2-CO 
•4 
W. Wallace. 
Palm Sugars. 
Date • . 
95-4 
1-8 
1-70 
•2 
•80 
•40 
AV. Wallace. 
East Indian 
86-00 
219 
2-88 
6-04 
2-89 
Wigner and Harland. 
Sorghum Sugars. 
9305 
-41 
-68 
1-72 
4-14 
Bockman. 
Hutchison, Kansas 
92-00 
4-50 
1-10 
l-oO 
•90 
0. Honck. 
llEFiNED Sugars. 
Tate's crystals 
99-90 
none 
trace 
trace 
none 
Wigner and Harland. 
French puh eriscd 
99-70 
trace 
-10 
•20 
do 
do 
Duucan'h granulated 
99-80 
trace 
-10 
-10 
do 
do 
Martineau's tablets 
99-80 
none 
-10 
•10 
do 
do 
Finzel's crystals 
99-86 
none 
none 
•01 
•13 
do 
A. U. Has.^all. 
Beet .-sugar loaf 
99-10 
trace 
•15 
"25 
do 
do 
Beet sugar crystals 
99-90 
none 
trace 
trace 
do 
do 
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