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“...sen (17s. Id.) was only payable for delivery
at Tainan (Anping) and that it cost 40 sen (lOd.) per picul to bring
the sugar from the mills and 3 yen (6s. 3d.) per picul for consump-
tion tax and, as the native mills charge about 2 yen 50 sen (5s. 2 Jd.)
per picul for manufacture, the net return to the farmer is on'y 2 yen
50 sen (4s. per picul of sugar. This picul of sugar, when manu-
factured by the old buffalo mill system, which gives an extraction in
juice, on weight of cane, of only 45 per cent, and requires 1,660 kin
(19 cwts.) of cane to produce a yield of 6 per cent, of sugar, gives
a net return to the farmer of only about 1 yen 40 sen (2s. lid.)
per 1,000 kin (12 cwts.). An acre of land yields with the best
cane about 15 to 20 tons of raw sugar (brown) so that the return
per acre is about 35 to 42 yen (SI. 12s. lid. to 4L 7s. 6d.).
The modern mills, employing modern machinery, secure an
extraction of 70 to 75 per cent., giving a yield of 9i to 11 per cent,
of white sugar of about...”
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“...universally and successfully adopted in
South Formosa. The great desideratum for the country is financial
assistance and cheapness of money, and this is only needed to place
the sugar industry in South Formosa on an equally satisfactory
footing as, for instance, in Java.
Sugar districts.—So far as can be ascertained, practically all the
available sugar cane districts of any size have been allotted under the
recent laws to various sugar mills on the central factory basis.
There are, however, some small districts not yet allotted incapable
of supporting big mills, but there is only one large district capable
of supporting a mill of a crushing capacity of 1,000 tons per day,
which is not yet taken up. There are, it seems, some 10,000 acres
on the east coast of Formosa, which the sugar bureau would probably
grant to anyone undertaking to plant cane, but as there is great
difficulty in shipping on that coast, it is not probable that anyone
will apply for that district.
Prospects of sugar industry...”
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