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form, and comes to market wrapped in corn husks, when 
it is called panela. 
That the sugar production may be better under¬ 
stood, I give the statistics for 1883, as published by 
the Government. A finca is a plantation; a manzana 
equals an acre and three quarters, more or less; an 
arroba weighs twenty-five pounds, and a quintal one 
hundred pounds. 
Departments. 
Number 
of 
tineas. 
Manzanas 
planted. 
Arrobas 
of 
sugar. 
Loads of 
panela, 
64 parcels each. 
Arrobas 
of 
molasses. 
Quintals 
of 
moscovado. 
Guatemala . . 
68 
203 
3,259 
1,571 
5,162 
1,472 
Escuintla . . 
55 
1,851 
40,507 
7,315 
66,441 
15,168 
Sacatepequez . 
2 
163 
13,494 
413 
35,765 
45,796 
Chimaltenango 
265 
216 
2,168 
2,128 
13 
.... 
Solola . . . 
16 
214 
132 
1,067 
150 
.... 
Suchitepequez . 
20 
312 
7,999 
4,149 
9,560 
.... 
Retallmleu . . 
31 
305 
4,260 
3,191 
9,825 
8 
Quezaltenango. 
23 
249 
.... 
1,641 
6,661 
.... 
San Marcos . . 
66 
252 
.... 
6,996 
4,918 
Huehuetenango 
513 
112 
311 
4,043 
122 
.... 
Quiche . . . 
57 
43 
.... 
1,256 
.... 
Baja Verapaz . 
77 
384 
2,201 
3,889 
3.401 
* 2,003 
Alta Verapaz . 
61 
157 
411 
867 
'632 
.... 
Peten .... 
71 
127 
.... 
499 
.... 
.... 
Zacapa . . . 
106 
213 
4,696 
1,549 
2,125 
8 
Chiquimula. . 
505 
605 
56,254 
17,201 
7,558 
42 
Jalapa . . . 
135 
1,800 
1,052 
741 
269 
.... 
Jutiapa . . . 
144 
380 
15,136 
2,202 
6,461 
.... 
Santa Rosa . . 
32 
174 
2,719 
6,465 
121 
.... 
Totals . . . 
Value . . . 
2,247 
7,810 
154,599 
@ $1.75 
$270,548.25 
67,183 
@ $8.00 
$537,464 
159,184 
@ 25 cts. 
$39,896 
64,497 
@ $2.00 
$128,994 
While this table is by no means exact, it shows 
fairly the amount of saccharine products and their dis¬ 
tribution. It is curious to note liow many very small 
plantations are reported from the Department of Huehue- 
tenango yielding almost exclusively the coarse panela. 
In Chiquimula the large proportion of sugar is due to 
foreign enterprise. There the cane-fields are capable of 
irrigation from the Hondo or other streams, and the cane 
