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fining sugar which is now being made in the colony in 
enormous quantities. And none of these were much 
better nor much worse than on previous occasions. The 
only new features in this part of the Exhibition were the 
presence of some foreign samples of sugar from Domi- 
nica, Trinidad, and most numerous of all, from St. Lucia, 
and the presence of a novel sample of fine white sugar 
made without the use of copper-wall or animal charcoal, 
but simply by steam-clarifier, triple effect and vacuum 
pan, at Pin. Providence in Berbice. 
Some misapprehension seeming to prevail on the subject 
among the non-technical inhabitants of this sugar-land, 
it may be as well to point out that the white sugars, and 
the refining sugars are judged according to polarization, 
appearance, and marketable value. A few critics of the 
Exhibition, not understanding that not only would it be 
against the rules under which competition was invited, 
but that it would also be most unfair to judge these 
sugars merely by polarization without consideration of 
appearance, were unnecessarily disturbed by the very 
natural fact that the prize was not in all cases 
awarded to the sample with absolutely the highest 
polarization. It would perhaps have been undesirable 
to allude to this but for the importance of calling atten- 
tion to the facts of the case in every possible way before 
the next Exhibition. , 
As regards food-products other than sugar, there were 
present in somewhat unusual numbers, the usual pre- 
parations of plantains, bananas, bitter and sweet cassava, 
fruits and vegetables. Cocoa and coffee were more abun- 
dantly shown than has ever been the case before, and 
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