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culture by the East India Co. Mr. Fortune's travels in the tea districts of China. Instructions and details as to soil, management and manufacture, by Dr. Jameson and Mr. Fortune. Dr. Campbell's notes. Mr. A. Macfarlane's Report. The East India tea plantations in the North-West Provinces. Experimental cultivation of the tea plant in Brazil; M. Geullemin's report thereon. Paraguay Tea: Mr. Robertson's description of the collection and manufacture. _Sugar_. Plants from which it is usually obtained. The sugar cane; its range of cultivation. Production in our colonies. Consumption in the last ten years. Improvements in sugar machinery and manufacture. Quantity of cane sugar annually produced and sent into the markets. Local consumption in India. Present European supply; demand according to the consumption in England. Estimated annual production throughout the world. Consumption in the principal European countries. Average annual consumption in the United Kingdom. Comparative amount of beet-root and cane sugar produced in the last four years. _Gazette_ prices of sugar in the last ten years. Production of sugar in the United States. Production in Cuba. Production in the British West Indies. Production in Mauritius. Statistics of imports from the Mauritius. Production in the British East Indies. Production in Java. Production in the Philippines. Chemical distinction between cane and grape sugar. Varieties of the sugar cane cultivated. Possibility of raising the cane from seed. Analysis of the cane, and of a sugar soil. Chemical examination of cane juice. Vacuum pans. Boiling and tempering. Composition of cane juice. Ramos's prepared plantain juice. Professor Fownes on the manufacture of sugar. Expression of cane juice. Construction of the sugar mill. Quantity of juice obtained by each kind of mill. Position of rollers. Mode of culture and varieties in the East Indies. Soils considered best adapted for its luxuriant growth. Manures. Sets and planting. Aftergrowth. Harvesting. Injuries, from seasons, storms, insects, &c. Mode of cultivation in the Brazils; in Natal; expenses. Comp
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