t)EMEfcARA Sugar Production. 
acts as a spare. The first carriers for conveying the 
megass from the one mill to the other were clumsy 
things very much larger than were necessary. Mr, 
Tilley was, I believe, the first to see that if the weight of 
the megass was less than half the weight of the canes, 
then the carrier of the megass need not be larger than 
half the size of the cane carrier. Moreover by making 
the megass carrier travel at double the rate of the cane 
carrier it need only be a quarter of its size and strength. 
The difficulty of giving the second mill a constant, 
regular feed was met by arranging over it a shovel 
shaped like those used by bankers for shovelling gold. 
This is automatically waved to and fro by an ingenious 
eccentric so as to spread the megass in a layer of uni- 
form depth on the moving lower roller of the second mill^ 
As long as both engines are high pressure, and absolutely 
none of the exhaust steam is allowed to escape, the fuel 
required to drive the second mill is scarcely appreciable. 
So I think that double crushing, with or without macera- 
tion, may be set down as one of the greatest improve- 
ments effected during the last twenty years. No matter 
how good your first mill may be, be sure that a second 
will give such a further amount of juice from the seem- 
ingly exhausted megass as wiil be simply astonishing. 
On looking back, one is amused by remembering the 
dismal prognostications as to the certain deterioration of 
the megass as fuel. It was taken as axiomatic that tine 
more the canes were crushed, the worse the result would 
be, as if it were the juice that burnt. 
Experience has taught us the exa6l opposite. The 
drier the megass, the better it burns. " Can water 
burn ?" was the answer of the late Mr. RuSSELL to those 
