| lbs. | |
| Produce of one acre of sugar cane | 72,240 |
| Juice expressed, (or 64 per cent.) | 46,308 |
| Dry sugar | 7,356 |
| Green syrup or molasses | 2,829 |
| This syrup carrying with it a good deal of 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 £3 | £60 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 Plough | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| 1 set Harrows | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| Yokes, Trektows, Reins, &c. | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| £80 | 0 | 0 |
Then the expenses per month will be:—
| Ploughman's wages | £2 | 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 |
| £6 | 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. | £28 | 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 |
| £239 | 10 | 0 |