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two mills belonging to each of them there, and worked by the machi¬ 
nery of De Rosen and Cail, The following was the result of the 
crops of 1845. 
' 
Owner. 
Establishment. 
Baus. 
Obtained 
Kettles of 
juice ea: 
1000 Nd. 
Kam. 
Sugar 
Piculs. 
Piculs. 
per Bau. 
Holmberg, 
Djati Borang,.... 
400 
7155 
14,317. 52 
35*. 
Adiewarna,. 
400 
9252 
19,512. 
48*. 
Lucassen, 
Kemanglcn,. 
379 
6695 
15,502, 55 
40. scarcely. 
Boekoewringin,.. 
421 
6656 
13,726. 27 
324. 
1600 
29,758 
68,058. 34 
39+. nearly. 
So that these mills, working in the second and third year, have not 
produced results equal to those obtained in Probolinggo with How¬ 
ard’s apparatus ; it must however not be forgotten, that neither the 
soil nor climate in Tagal is as favorable as in Probolinggo. 
Mr. Lucassen, anxious to have the capabilities of his system test¬ 
ed by the Government, invited them to send some person to watch 
the operation, during crop time. The Governor sent Mr. Schiff, 
inspector of cultures, who instituted an experiment from which the 
following result was obtained : 
Bundles. Piculs. Piculs. 
30 Baus good canes gave 21,395 yielded 767 Pots 656. 74 or 65. 67 & bau. 
10 „ 
middling 
w 
16,882 
Y> 
383 
n 
327. 94 or 32. 79 
10 „ 
small 
17,790 
w 
379 
» 
324. 52 or 32. 45 
10 ,, 
fallen 
n 
19,818 
V 
562 
» 
161. 28 or 16, 13 
75,886 
n 
2091 
9 
1470. 48 or 36f 
or excluding the fallen cane, the 30 other baus would average 43f 
per bau. From the above statements we may fairly conclude that 
in Tagal, the machinery of De Rosen and Cail cannot average more 
than 40 piculs per bau, a rate at which the Pahiton mill will also 
barely arrive. The introduction of this expensive machinery can, 
therefore, be hardly adviseable, at least in the fine sugar districts to 
the eastward, when with proper management, even with the old open 
boilers, 45 piculs per bau have sometimes been obtained, as was the 
case, this year, at the very next mill to Pahiton, viz., Jabong, belong¬ 
ing to Ki King, the Captain Chinaman of Bezoekei, in a miserable 
establishment on the old plan, where they made 50 piculs per bau; 
but it appears that the Chinaman had bribed the village chiefs to 
