, 1877-03-28

grain is of q very fine description, and as
clear as the first syrup sugar. | think, 1t
it were allowed to remain a few days In
a wooden cooler, the size of the grain
would greatly increase, and l am positive
ly certain that no difference at all would
be made in the sugar if this uncrystallised
syrup were properly subsidized, and then
worked up with first syrups in fact, it
would greatly add to their crystallizatlon.
"E. j."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TRINIDAD
CHRONICLE. DEC 9th, 1876.
SIR,
If man proposes a " revolution in
anything, he is bound to show that a ne
cessity has arisen for it. The great bug
bear Of beetroot sugar is worn threadbare
everybody has heard about it, but no
one has got frightened enough to give
up cane cultivation and go to Ireland
or elsewhere to try beetroot instead.
The cane is still acknowledged to be
the best plant to produce suga. from,
and 80 it is. But gold might even become
too dear, although it may be found in the
sand Of rivers Gas in The Rajne) fit costs
21s. to get the weight Of a sovereign.
We have tried here and in Demegara to
get cheap labour from India, and although
we have to pay high for " our whistle"
and submit to many inconyenioncos, the
experiment has 60 far answered, and [
would be the last MAJ to cry down iami-
grafton Of labOurers, no matter where they
come from. But whilst our planters have
struggled hard and uobly 10 make cana
sugar as cheap as beet sugar ia the fields,
they have unfortunately paid less attention
to obtain the sugar which is in the canes.
A very careful and large experiment
which was made in Demerara under the
auspices Of the well-knoWn Mr. VIM,
Russell, and is reported in The Sagar Cane,
for March, 1876, showed thab out Of 604
hhds. of sugar which was in $4,000 gall
Ions of cane juice, only 400 hhds Of sugar
were actually obtained, ana that the
missing 204 hhds. were in the ottl and
mOlasSes, which had subsequently, to be
converted into 200 puncheons Of rum.
Without rum-that 4" baue of humanity"
sugar estates, as at present carried on,
cannot pay. But rum cannot be made Tor
nothing it requires additional labour and
plant, and when made is not equal in
value to sugar (puntheon for hid J which
could have been made instead Of "tho
Ofal," and with less expense than it costs
to make rum.
This, then, is the necessity Of which /
wish to speak. The Planters in the West
Indies must make sugar, and give up tie
idea Of making rum. Although / am a
G. L., it is not as q Good Templar that
I now write against rum, but as a friend
to the Planters and to the West Indies
You Mr.. Editor, will believe me when I
say that my objection to being connected
with any sugar estate, during my more
than thirty years residence here. was
principally on account of my dislike to
the manufacture of rum, and the general
belief that sugar estates cannot pay with
out a rum distillery, or without getting a
good price for molasses from the rum-dis-
%tilleFs, and that as l could not believe
that such u useful industry as the manu-.
facture of sugar could only be successfully
carried on by the addition of q destructive
Ito peace, health, &C., material-rum,~-I
have ever since that time sought for q
mode Thy anxious thought and EXPERIMENT.
to get the sugar out of the canes, without
converting any part OF it into molasses,
&C. w. Eathorne Gill says he has found
some chemical Moda ~ doinr c. nd 7