MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR IN BARBADOES. 
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Barbadoes, where the licensed dram-shops for the sale of 
this fiery poison exceed in number six hundred. The pre- 
ferable method would be to collect it with care in pun- 
cheons as it flows from the sugar in the curing-house, and 
in this manner preserve it until after crop-time, that is, until 
the leisure time of the year, when it might be advanta- 
geously re-boiled in the vacuum-pan, and an additional 
quantity of sugar extracted. 
To recapitulate: the attention of the intelligent and en- 
terprising planter should be directed to the following points: 
1. To obtain by the use of a properly constructed mil!, 
the greatest possible amount of juice from the cane. 
2. To clarify and filter this juice with expedition, and to 
evaporate it rapidly either over the open fire, or by steam- 
heat, as far as it can be done with safety. 
3. To complete the concentration in a vacuum-pan, or by 
other means, at a moderate temperature, not hurtful to the 
sugar, and to facilitate the natural process of crystallization, 
so as to obtain a sugar of large and distinct grain. 
4. To drain and dry the sugar perfectly, and to save all 
the molasses. 
If the sugar be desired white, it can easily be obtained in 
this condition, by filtering through a bed of animal char- 
coal the thin syrup ready for the vacuum-pan, according to 
the practice of refiners, and by afterwards washing the 
crystals when thoroughly drained with white syrup. In 
this manner, raw sugar will be obtained almost equal in 
colour and purity to refined sugar, but at an increased ex- 
pense, as the charcoal soon loses its decolourizing power, 
and requires re-burning, and the washing process consumes 
a considerable quantity of pure sugar. The propriety of 
adopting these additional measures will depend entirely on 
the price such whitened sugar bears in the market. At pre- 
sent an additional duty is levied on such ; it is to be hoped, 
however, that this most injudicious increase, may, on a 
proper representation of the facts of the case, be remitted. 
