, 1867-02-12
Barbados Agricultural Reporter, Jan. 3d.
1867 SUGAR CROP AND RUM.
To tie Editor @Me Globe.

IIO C4C WHICH Al0I CSShyCO ~ SllOW ! "
others, what was so evident to himself,
VIA great proft-ceItain on the i'm
provement OF our sugar manufacture, also
that Any Sugar Planter in the WEST
INDIES could at once produce from Cane
Juice, SHARP, CRYSTALLINE CLEAR
SUGAR, which would far outsell any re-
hnery mutations of it, mo- such imita-
tons might appear as good. Our letters
of 1865 and 1866 especially named this
and pointed out this tact-ihat The ready
sale of sugar, and the better pratt on it.
was only lost to US, because we would
not take the trouble to make such
GOOD, CLEAR, CRYSTALLINE SUI
GAR at first. Trade and ''The Shop
have been effecting an Influence all this
time. "Handling" is going out of fash
ion, aud the old, soft, fair, coloured sugar
Of Barbados, fit for such work, is no
longer in request for mixing with refn-
cry Pieces and other nasty stuff to make
them fit for sale, and the Refners have
initiated the Crystalline Cane Sugars so
successfully as to create a demand for
them, and therefore those who will i'm
prove and do the best they can, are get
ting the market and this profit which is
still open TO every Planter. The GrOcprs'
Circular, Traver's List aud the especial
success and profit on the we'll made Crvs-
talIine Sugars of the COLONIAL COM
PANY fully bear out what the writer has
advised. Early in 1866 we had repeated
announcements of the success of the CON-
CRETOR; as yet we hear nothing of the
commercial value Of Concrete or of lis
general products under the hands of the
R finer, and SO as yet, there is not such
certainty IN either apparatus or products
as would allow us to nd rise even its trial in
this Island. We consider it thus: 1t is quite
possible to concrete Cane Juice with some
of it's impurities and ALL of its saline
constituents into a solid mass, which SO
is useless anil unsuitable for common use as a
Sweetener, and only fit for making some
r~einer's profits. But we consider also
that the Cane Juice con be made almost
Chemically pure by proper DELEGATION and
filtration, and why not concrete such pure
cane juice and put it up fit for sale and
use at once in Id. or 5 or lob. parcels.
When this is done or the reason phv not
done fairly stated, then we may consider
the Concrete as more worthy of the Su-
gar Planters attention. We may safely
say the same of all the other schemes
and proposals for sending on concentrated
Cane Juice or Syrups, or melado so as to
give work and profit to Refners-they
are not worth our notice so long as our
present apparatus and the megasS of the
Cane will suffice to give us sugar which
with care we can make as good as the
Colonial Company's. Our previous re-
marks and advertisements of Bi Sulphite
of Lime to prevent Acidity and to stop
Fermentation &C.; even in molasses it is
further borne Out by a recent suggestion
of Mr.. Anderson of Trinidad, viz, to add
Bi Sulphite Of Lime to concentrated
Syrups, and ship them with it for Rein
ing at Home-it would succeed, but the
first and best profit would be lost to the
Sugar Planter Not so when it is pro-
perly used with molasses if ever ii is or
ought to be shipped. 1t prevents the
Acidity and Fermentation of molaSses.