[2684] 120,030 hhds (one hogshead = 1,792 lb.) in 1876.
[2685] 114,968,384 lb. in 1876.
[2686] 38,013 hhds. in 1876.
[2687] 29,074 hhds. in 1876.
[2688] Stems of American sugar cane, dried at 100° C., yielded 4 per cent of ash, nearly half of which was silica.—Popp, in Wiggers’ Jahresbericht, 1870. 35.
[2689] The plan of obtaining a syrup by macerating the sliced fresh cane, has been tried in Guadaloupe, but abandoned owing to some practical difficulties in exhausting the cane and in carrying on the evaporation of the liquors with sufficient rapidity. Experiments for extracting a pure syrup by means of cold water from the sliced and dried cane, seem to promise good results.—See a paper by Dr. H. S. Mitchell in Journ. of Soc. of Arts, Oct. 23, 1868.
[2690] Annales de Chimie et de Physique, v. (1865) 350-410.—See also, for Cuba, Alvaro Reynoso Ensayo sobre el cultivo de la caña de Azúcar, Madrid, 1865. 359.—For British Guiana, Catal. of Contributions from Brit. Guiana to Paris Exhib. 1867. pp. xxxviii.-xli.
[2691] Aconitic Acid (p. 11) has been met with by Behr (1877) in West Indian molasses.
[2692] It is commonly stated that three parts can be dissolved in one of cold water; but this is not the fact.
[2693] A word of Sanskrit origin, corrupted from the Canarese sharkari.