, 1875-08-28

should be used and when such an extraction can
be obtained at a single pressure ia it not
strange that persons are still found who adv0.
cate complicated machinery, which produces.
an inferior result 7
Filtration by animal charcoal requires expen-
sive machinery, a large capital invested IN
char; and is otherwise laborious and costly,
and the same results can be produced by oaFe'
full defeoation and a proper attention to the
use of alkalies in the juice; the DELEGATION and
the apparatus used in the Usines are not in
accordance with what | think necessary.
The triple Effet" used in the Usines to
reduce cane juice to syrup 10 in my opinion an
expensive ornament whereas the Concretor
as worked at Amity Hall, We're, is superior to
any other apparatus yet invented for producing
this effect.
The remainder of the operation is in the
French Usines performed in a manner. and
with machinery, that could scarcely be i'm
proved on and the green megass az it m
from themill is consumed under the generators,
the advantages and economy of which process
no amount of argument could persuade me
against, | admit the qualities of the megass
as manure, but it does not pay. l do not deny
that sun dried megass is superior to the fresh
IS it leaves the mill but q megass drying
yard is not compatible with an establishment
filled with valuable machinery, consequently
competent to judge on the advantages or de-
feots of different apparatus, l should propose
the establishment Of sugar factories on q very
different principle to those at present in use.
This advice I gave to the person who estab'
lished the first factory in Puerto Rico, who
allowed himself to be over persuaded by
French engineers interested in the sale OF
their apparatus; be has since regretted 1t.
I also gave similar advice to my St. Lucia
friends, they will in due course Of time regret
not having followed it.
Central Sugar Factories where proper atten'
ton ispaid toprocurs the most effective, although
perhaps the less comedy machinery, erected
with a view to ecOnomize labour, increase OF
extraction of juice, and yield of crystalIizable
sugar. must pay certain systems OF factories
may be expensive and unproductive, owing to
too great an amount of money having been
expended in unnecessary machinery totally
out of proportion to the quantity OF canes
to be procured in the neighbourhood,
but where such has been the case 1t
simply demonstrates the want of judg-
ment of the Projectors or Directors. but cam
not be argument against the utility OF Central
Sugar Factories.
Having had every opportunity to study the
CLldl oClSA VI tu0 UdlAAdlS0 ulo pOPNAoCAOhB l.
repeat what I asserted some twelve months
since, no " country could be better adapted for
such an enterprise" Persons might say
why then have you abandoned q Project you
think so highly of l have not abandoned It'll
I was aided by some of the most influential in
habitAnts. All the preliminaries were made
and numbers of persons had offered to take
shares in the Company; in fact. the Project
was on the eve of being realized, but, finding
myself forced into expensive and protracted
litigation in Jamaica, a litigation which has
prevented my attending to my business in
other countries, and made my visit here
doubly Improbable can it be surprising that
I have left in allegiance any other Project,
more especially so secondary a one as must be
Central Sugar Factories to me2
am, Sir.
Your obdt. servt.,