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rum which they exported to the Island of Madagascar, but 
since the French commenced hostilities there, that market 
has been closed to this and other importations. This planter 
had therefore tried exporting the molasses to England, but 
what it sold for here did not pay the cost of carriage. He 
had, therefore, directed his manager to employ it in future as 
manure. 
I am glad to see by “The Sugar Cane” for this month 
(Febiuaiy), that the Committee of the Agricultural Society 
for Barbadoes have drawn up a series of resolutions on the 
Central Factory System, and have sent a copy to the pro- 
prietors of the different estates on the island. The following 
is the first resolution : — 
“That central factories are desirable as the most practical 
means of rendering the manufacture of sugar in this island 
profitable.” 
English investors need not, therefore, in future seek out 
such distant and hazardous places as the Argentine Republic 
if they wish to invest their money in the sugar manufacture ; 
they will doubtless soon have an abundant opportunity of 
investing their money in that industry in our own Colonies. 
Then, again, what a splendid opening this establishment of 
Central Sugar Factories in our colonies would have been for 
our young chemical engineers if we had established a sound 
system of Technical Education, instead of that most in- 
efficient and miserable, but very costly system, established 
by the Military at South Kensington. 
