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“...that the sugar is not coming in, and that the
prospects of the 1902 season arc not particularly bright.
Sng.ii'Bureau. The Government-General intends to establish a special bureau
this year (1902) for the encouragement of the sugar industry and
the management of all matters relating to sugar. Its object is to
improve the methods of cultivation and manufacture of sugar by
introducing Hawaiian cane (rose bamboo) and small steam mills,
and by providing fertilisers at a nominal cost, and also teachers to
instruct the natives how to utilise their land and the new mills to
the best advantage. It is calculated that (1) by improving the
present machinery and extracting 60 per cent, instead of 50 per
cent, of juice the total yield would be increased to 420,000 tons
of juice, or 63,000 tons of sugar; (2) by improving the sugar-cane
and introducing Hawaiian varieties the crop of cane produced
would yield 1,633,334 tons of juice, from which 245,000 tons of
sugar would be obtained; and that (3) if the...”
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“...in mill.
Formosa, instead of the native mills. The experiment proved a
success, and although the sales at first were slow, owing to the
superstitions of the natives, the cleaner quality of the rice and
the cheaper price at which it was sold, gradually brought it into
favour. The demand increasing, a larger mill with an output of
20 tons a day has been erected, and it is intended later to erect a
similar one at Takowand at other places as required. The machinery
for the mill was purchased in the United States and the United
Kingdom, the rice-hullers, engines., elevators, shafting, and one
boiler in the United States, and the rice-shellers, blowers, belting,
and one boiler in the United Kingdom. It appears, with regard
to prices that the American machinery is cheaper by about 20
per cent, than similar machinery of British make, and that large
American firms make a practice of sending travellers all the year
round to visit the places where their mills are in use, with the
view of giving any...”
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