Wet Megass, Sun Dried, and Logie Megass, as 
Fuel. 
By Nevile Lubbock. 
JITH an extraction of 66* per cent, of juice, 34 
parts of megass will remain, out of 100 of 
canes. These 34 parts will be composed nearly 
as follows : — 
I2"5 parts wood = 37 per cent. 
17-5 „ water = 52 „ 
4- „ sugar =11 „ 
34 I0 ° 
The same megass, if dried in the sun, will lose most of 
its water, and will contain, if well dried 
I2'5 parts wood = 62*5 per cent. 
3-5 „ water = 17-5 „ 
4 „ sugar = 20 ,, 
but the weight will be reduced, from 34 to 20, or to 58*8 
per cent, of the original weight. 
When megass is logie-dried the sugar by decomposi- 
tion becomes lost, and the megass will be composed 
nearly as follows : — 
I2'5 parts wood ■= about 84 per cent. 
2'5 parts water = ,, 16 „ 
15 100 
The weight at the same time being reduced from 33*3 to 
1 1 1, or to 34*5 per cent, of the original weight. 
The value of these different conditions of megass as 
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