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partially, the liquid portion separated, cooled, and then churned j 
with milk to give it a flavour. As a rule it contains 85 percent* 
of fat, and only 15 per cent, of water and salt. It keeps well I 
in this climate with T\- per cent, of salt. Compared with butte;! 
it is of course very deficient in flavour. 
SECTION Y. — Medicines. 
Medicines which amount in value to £10,000 a year call 
for no special notice. 
SECTION VI. — Sugar and Beverages. 
We consume refined sugar to the value of £6,000 a year 
It or a sugar producing colony this is a large amount. 
The only adulteration of sugar worthy of consideration 
a ec s us as sugar producers rather than as sugar consumers. 
Ains consists in the substitution of beet crystals, coloured with 
for the well known Demerara crystals. It is 
j 7 . ec y a fraud; and, although convictions under the Food 
ana urugs Act have been obtained in many parts of England, 
Ifc f, a question which should be dealt with under 
u £?" w i,arkS Act, and dealt with severely. It shows 
DrotpctPfl V’ i ° Ur stru SS 1] ng industries can be, to some extent 
protected by the proper working of Food Laws in other countries. 
infrem, U pni"ll th ° US , h S !J gar itseIf is not much adulterated, it is not 
a kind of Ji le P la °ed in preserves such as jams and jellies by 
substitutes If r “ a J le ar ; tlficia % from starch. The use of such 
might remarl-™! 11118 leS ] f 10 na tural demand for cane sugar. I 
larcre manufipt 1<3re ’ hough it is not strictly relevant, that* 
he found it; lmr”' '-! ? f rate< waters stated some time ago that 
when made inn?* 51 ’.t USe beet , su gar for his syrups, because 
mouldy flavour ? ,? at ® r tllis s y ru p always developed a 
cane-sugar producers.* 3 *** 1Slnterested testimony of some value to 
ported could "bo if a - tbat tbe quality of much that is im- 
not aware of any serio™ fduKtion.^ jUdiCi ° US 1 
extent, I am unable^o^* 36 ’ bufc wh y we do so, and to what 
am unable to give you any information. 
parations as cfeo’i tin a^fan Ho,!^’/ f - ™ ° SU ° h sp3 ° i f 1 ^ 
X<ike o- i, t6n S) fury’s and Epps s. 
interest you more as producers aduJterati °u of cacao will 
this colony a most important question Cori ® umers i and ifc is t0 
o ' on > for the demand for cacao 
