, 1889-09-04

physical. conformation of this island, aud
to compare it with that OF other Su gar.
producing countries, to come to the con-
cluSiOn that it is not adapted to the pro-
ftable cultivation of the cane. Ne doubt,
if the price of ordinary or bad muscovado
: sugar could be. made, by command of
some commercial Joshua, to stand still at
something like fourteen pounds sterling
per hogshead, there would be some excuse
for continuing to extend an industry which
is on its last legs. Failing this, the wi.
sest and ultimately the least dishearten-
ing course is to acknowledge the impossi-
bility of getting any good by making
brown sugar, and to turn our attention to
other products. There are, however, some
prOprietOrS who for a time may be able to
hang on the old industry by means Of
quilting the ignorant labOurer into planting
: canes on shares. But a little further ex-
perience of low prices will soon knock the
bottom out Of this deception, and the
state of the planter who is suddenly de-
serted by his metayers then becomes even
worse than that OF the man who is strug-
Cling along by the Old method of paid
labOur. There are some who, nOtwith.
standing what may be written to the fore
going effect, will refuse to believe that
the plant by which they have gained a
living for 80 many years is doomed to
extinction locally. Let these lOtus.eating
believers i'll a decaying industry think for
. 3 moment of what is taking place around
them. The number Of those who purchase
refining muScavadO sugar is yearly on the
decrease. Beet sugar is manufactured SO
perfectly that it goes to the consumer
without the intervention of IL middleman.
This necessary manufacturing reform is
also largely Oh the increase in caue.grow.
ing lands. The producer of raw sugars
will in course of time find his market
gone, when the last retiner uaS to shut up
his' factory. In short, the planter who is
not Ible to produce the finished ar icle
without diScOunting the profit of the
: middleman must be elbowed out of the
market in course of time. With the latest
scientific appliances for the expression of
the juice and the perfection of the crys-
tails, producers of an article marketable
throughout the world find it by no means
an easy. task to make money out of sugar
or to contend against the rival beet.
What the planter hopes To get out of the
production of a low class commodity only
q hopeful and SeIf,deceptive imagination
caa tell. But the doom of the old ways of
making sugar has for mlny .a-day been
written on the wall. or course, some
thing might be effected 10y means of the
GoHtTNi ldCtOTy SYSTEM. DuG even UulS IL
a doubtful expedient. Small factories
cannot be mad to pay, and We are unable
10 produce enough canes for a large one
within carrying distance. Looked at from.
whatever point we may choose, the cane
sugar ~ u paying industry is for us Il
thing Of the past. 1t is surely the wlsest
course to recognise this fact and TO act on
1t: Ours is essentially II country for ter
race and orchard cultivation. Let us act
on our che and seek out what suits us
best. Let us dethrone gradually but
surely the monarch Cane and raise up in
his stead a republic of varying industries
suitable to the diverSitieS of our soil and
she varying climatic conditions of our
-eOuntry.-D0minicG Bal.
A new industry has been started in
Jamaica in the making Of bread out of the
bread fruit, with which no doubt The
island abOunds. A certain proportion of
Aour is used but the main Ingredient is
said to be the bread fruit. The bread is
described to be delightful in taste and
beautifully white Ibid.
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