TAvrin, 1900.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 301 
; om conjunction with the above the following figures may be read with 
; St :—~ 
. Exrracrep rroM Corree Report DATED 12TH JANUARY, 1900. @ 
Hi Planting Opinion, No. 8, Vol. V. 
| Stock. Imports. Home Consumption. Exports. 
(eshte IN) (emer ime} Cet caer’ 
1900. 1899. 1900. 1899. 1900. 1899. 1900. 1899. 
W , 5 Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons, Tons. 
tek Thdia es ep 479 498... 2 35 rey 5 3 53 2 5 
PRE oe ase) 809 7D Remit ae Ong eD euseke es Shbvealiainps. 5 
Voetia Oa ar) 10 ety SUD eae Op es (i BE ye ww) 
“Bix iL a an me 305 SOG pees 25 ne 16 «17 ts Ziel 
WAM eke BAD BBB i482 4, 9 BBR OB 1G) 80 
! eck oreign 5,057 8,749 ... 213 340 ps 205 166 ir 232 264 
| Totals... .. 14,744 14,234 657 419 843 281 319 319 
j The preceding figures exhibit— 
| Tons. 
| In the imports, an increase this year of... iy o) v 238 
f Home Consumption, an increase of 95) SH eo 7 WY 
| Export Py ” 
| Stock = 4) orn c an ily 
he The increase of stock is a matter of future sales, the season only just 
s'ining, The home consumption, it will be seen from these, the latest figures, 
Mereasing, and also the output of Mocha and Ceylon can be estimated at 
on roper value in proportion to that of other countries. 
e grading quoted in the Brazilian report is, it must be remembered, for 
Rig Coffee, and not the general grading of coffee disposed of at Mincing Lane. 
BEET AND CANE SUGARS. 
hie telative values of beet and cane sugars form the subject of the following 
hort to the United States Government by the Dairy and Food Department 
“mical Laboratory, Lansing. ‘The report is dated 31st October, 1899 :— 
The oranulated sugar of commerce, commonly known as cane sugar, is 
iSleoated ag sucrose by the chemist. This sugar differs from all other sugars 
qa ide 
Ntical with the sucrose derived from the sugar-beet. 
ae ane sugar, sucrose, or simply sugar as it is known to commerce and in the 
7 ,“Sehold, exists dissolved in many vegetable juices. It is found in the stems 
er’ of all grasses, especially in the sugar-cane and sorghum ; in fleshy 
fete beet, carrots, turnip, and sweet potato ; in the sap of trees, as the date 
Mand sugar maple ; in almost all sweet fruits, and in the nectar of flowers ; 
i se only a few of these is the proportion of sugar large enough to make 
. tolyenle its separation from the other substances which these juices hold in 
lon. The two principal sources are the sugar-cane and the sugar-beet. 
that 7 © sugar-cane is a gigantic jointed grass very much like our corn, except 
but 5 does not ear or tassel out. Itisa native of Hastern India and China, 
: heme how grown extensively in the tropical and subtropical regions: of both 
ty SPheres. Sugar from the sugar-cane was probably known in China some 
1ousand years before it was used in Europe. When merchants began to 
thes the Indies, it was brought westward, with spices and perfumes and 
the - tare and costly merchandise, and was used for a long time exclusively in 
th Preparation of medicines. It was probably first used as an article of diet in 
the») St Indies, where the sugar-cane was introduced from Portugal soon after 
'slands were discovered by Columbus. 
he sugar consumed in America and other countries up to 1850 was nearly 
io, ved from the sugar-cane, but at the present time over two-thirds of the 
th meee is from the sugar-beet. It was in 1747 that Marggraf, a German 
thy St first discovered that beets contained erystallisable sugar identical with 
fio the sugar-cane. In 1776, Archard, a pupil of Marggraf, erected the first 
| by ie for beet sugar, but the 2 or 8 per cent. of sugar that could be extracted 
’ *€ methods then in use was too small for commercial success. But in 1506 
its properties, physical and chemical. The sucrose from the sugar-cane is: 
