, 1893-02-22

othEO tucl, oLd III PAOoOitC yVhA AOVN
will see the whole Of the Company's estates
being worked upon the usine plan. What
muck him too. in Martinique, was the great
care the French took with their manu-.
featuring records, by which they could detect
a loss Of juice in any stage Of the process.
In Demerara it was possible for ten per cent.
Of the juice to escape into the gutter
without the manager being any the wiser
through Tho medium If his returns. Deme-
rara, however, was not above being Instructed
and p%rofting by the valuable example Of
other sugar countries. 1t has succeeded in
making sugar at fully 97 per ton cheaper
than the average cost Of twenty years ago, and
this is how Mr.. Lubbock thinks the saving
has been Effected
1st. Asteady and regular days work.
2nd. Burning megass straight from the
mill, involving the abolition of logies.
3rd. The use of the triple efet.
4th. The Improvement Of the boiler fur
naces.
5th. Great attention to gushing. and the
introduction of double and triple cru hing.
9th. More scientific treatment Of the Juice
between mill and triple.
18th. Quicker working up Of juice, syrup
and l~noiasses.
8,h. Better management of dIstilleries.
eth. The careful protection of steam pip
ing, CHARTERS and heaters of all kinds with
non-conducting composition.
10th. The introduction of manufacturing
forms of returns, enabling the manager to
know what he is doing.
1t is no: very comforting to think that
owing to our ignorance of what could be
done. millions Of dollars worth Of produce
have been lost in past years and that at
The present day We are only ahead OF the
planters Of 1870 in the matter Of
improved boiler furnaces and improved triple
eFete but aach is the unpleasant truth.
1t must not be Supposed, however, that we
have reached the acme OF perfection as sugar
makers. and that better cannot be done,
and d. the opinion Of the moving spirit In
the Colonial Company cannot be without
inter est to Our planter readers we quote h re
what he has to say about The programme 81
the futurc;-
Ana now onc word as to what remains to be
done Tho most Obvious improvement
would be 10 extract the whole OF the JUICE
fr,m he canes. instead of 81 per cent only,
and r now done with double crushing; that
is 80 per cent of the Juice in the cane. Dit
f1sjon seems likely to be- successful III dong
this proftablt. Probably the next five years
will prove this ono way or the other. An
other Improvement much needed is a cheaper
way If curing second and thId jet sugars.
The present system Of curing them with CEN
t.ifugals is costly, both in fuel and wear and
tear # centrifagals. Another improvement
will probably h9 in ec0nomy of labour, Ihs
labour expeujui on feeding boilers might be
almost entire y done away with by the nitro
duotion If one large central furnace, fed au-
tomatic&lly fron. the mill instead Of having
separate furnaces for each boiler as Is now
done. Another source Of economy III labour
would arise from factories being capable Of
turning ont 5000 tons Of sugar in 100 days
instead Of :, 1000 o. u3 900 tons, the average
run of.the present factories. A 100 ton va
cnnnl pan would take no more labour to work
than a 10 ton pan. A triple dealing with 10000
o lors Ct juice per hour, would require very
little more labour than one dealing with 1000
gallons per hour, apd so on with CHARTERS,
STILLS. ana filter presses,
by I'd ptins these improvements MI. Lub.
locE links it possible to reduce the cost OF
niaurfacturo further by e or E2 per ton;
although tie cost has IL eady been reduced
DUR = the last 10 Years from ELS to Ell. 1t
used 20 be considered u feat to brag about, II
a planter made his sugar at twenty pounGs per