f sugar out of the
coolers, contains fully 75 per cent. of crystalizable sugar, or 2,121
Thus the total amount of sugar per acre is 9,477

The average density of the cane juice was 12 degrees Beaume, or 21
per cent. All the improved cane mills are now constructed to give at
least 75 per cent. of juice. With such a mill, an acre would yield
11,075 lbs. of sugar. With proper cultivation I have no doubt the
produce could be largely increased; for, as the numerous visitors
who have seen this place can testify, my cane fields were not
attended to.

To enable me to show the cost of producing a crop of canes, you must
allow me to go into the expense of cultivating the land first.

To keep one ploughman going, a person requires--

20 Oxen at L3 L60 0 0
1 Plough 7 10 0
1 set Harrows 7 10 0
Yokes, Trektows, Reins, &c. 5 0 0
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L80 0 0

Then the expenses per month will be:--

Ploughman's wages L2 10 0
Board 1 10 0
1 Driver, 10s., Leaders, 5s. 0 15 0
Food for two natives 0 10 0
Wear and tear of oxen and gear,
at 25 per cent. per annum 1 10 4
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L6 18 4

These two spans of oxen will comfortably plough and harrow twenty
acres per month, and the cost will thus be about 7s. per acre.

Now, let us suppose that a person wishes to put in twenty acres of
canes, the expense would be about as follows:--

4 Ploughings and harrowings, 80 acres at 7s. L28 0 0
Drawing canefurrows, 4 acres per day, 5 days at 6s. 1 10 0
2,000 Cane tops per acre, at 50s. 100 0 0
4 Horsehoeings, at 2s. 6d. 10 0 0
4 Handweedings in the rows, at 2s. 6d. 10 0 0
Cutting and carrying out canes, at 30s. 30 0 0
Carriage to Mill, thirty tons per acre, at 2s. 60 0 0
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L239 10 0

or L12 per acre. To this must be added the rent of land, say 10s.
per acre, with right of grazing cattle, for two year