INTERIOR OF CAMARIN, PHILIPPINES
As has been pointed out, the loss in this primitive method of manufacture is very heavy. Notwithstanding the fact that all of the molasses is retained in the sugar, the amount of sucrose that is lost or wasted is 44 per cent, and over one-half of this is left in the bagasse.
Apart from centrifugals, Philippine sugars consist of the following grades: Superior, Humedo (wet) and Corriente (current). Sugars polarizing from 87 to 88.9 degrees are called Superior No. 1, those testing from 85 to 86.9 degrees, Superior No. 2, and those running from 80 to 84.9 degrees, Superior No. 3. Humedo sugars polarize from 76 to 79.9 degrees and Corriente from 70 to 75.9 degrees. Roughly speaking, the proportions are about 85 per cent of Superior of 84 degrees purity and 15 per cent of wet sugar testing somewhere near 75 degrees.
The Bureau of Agriculture of the Philippines maintains experiment stations at La Granja, near La Carlota, Occidental Negros, and at Calamba, Luzon, for the study of cane, soil analysis and the solving of fertilization problems. This work of scientific investigation is sure to be of great benefit to the industry. Some experimental work with sugar cane is also carried on at the station at Alabang, Laguna province, Luzon.
American control in the Philippines promises much for the future of the sugar industry of these islands, for when it is remembered that for many years, in spite of the handicap of crude, uneconomic methods, export duties at home and import duties abroad, sugar was made and sold at a profit in the markets of the world, it is not unreasonable to look for a considerable stimulus to be given to production by advanced scientific management and free admission of the commodity to the markets of the United States.
Quantity of sugar exported from the Philippine islands from 1895 to 1916, in tons of 2240 pounds:
| 1895 | 227,279 |
| 1896 | 226,279 |
| 1897 | 198,899 |
| 1898 | 177,962 |
| 1899 | 91,583 |
| 1900 | 61,752 |
| 1901 | 51,448 |
| 1902 | 90,617 |
| 1903 | 88,144 |
| 1904 | 82,656 |
| 1905 | 103,334 |
| 1906 | 122,417 |
| 1907 | 120,050 |
| 1908 | 140,197 |
| 1909 | 125,276 |
| 1910 | 114,506 |
| 1911 | 203,394 |
| 1912 | 190,702 |
| 1913 | 155,201 |
| 1914 | 232,761 |
| 1915 | 207,679 |
| 1916 | 300,000 |
LUZON SUGAR REFINERY, MALABON, RIZAL, PHILIPPINES