62 TlMEHRI. 
OFFAL CROP. 
258*9 pounds sugar extracted. 
i86 - 4 dry crystals. 
lbs. sugar to 
gall rum 
20 
72"5 offal crop. 
12 times to ton of sugar. 
Sjo'o 
43'S g^s- rum P er ton °^ su S ar - 
Double for massecuite i86'40 668 - 68 
Water to get rid of (2,240-668*68 pounds=i,57r32) 
to do which are available 144*68 pounds of carbon. 
Taking the available carbon, 1 44^68 pounds, and al- 
lowing the coefficient derived from the Leonora trial, 
viz. 64 water to 1 carbon, we have 
1 44*68 
1571-32 
925,952 - 925-95 
645'37 
left to be eliminated by coal or wood ; and as Providence 
consumes 1800 lbs. of coals to the ton of sugar, with the 
equivalent of rum, in addition to the megass for all pur- 
poses, the consumption will be considered extravagant 
by those who have arrived at such perfection as to do all 
the work by megass alone. At the same time I cannot 
put my hand upon any glaring waste in Providence 
works. 
These, gentlemen, are my views upon cane crush- 
ing machinery and upon cane in its various stages as 
