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The Bengal Sugar Planter being a Treatise on the Cultivation of the Sugarcane and Date Tree in Bengal and the Manufacture of Sugar and Rum therefrom

1849

To the casual observer it would appear that the above plan is defective in the placing the plants so near to the surface of° the soil where they are more exposed to the influence of the sutt and drought and their roots less likely to obtain a firm hold of the soil than if set deeper : the reason assigned by the Natives for this shallow planting is the ever predominant fear of white-ants whi [...] first in promoting the growth of the canes. which is evidently in some degree the case for by div.erting the sap which would have gone to the futher development of the lower and larger leaves by breaking down the latter to the growth of the cane itself and its green top a new stimulus seems given to' the plant which bcomes very evident to the eye especially within a day or Mc) after [...] In very wet seasons the weeds spring up in the best lands and form a great drawback to the health and progress of the canes if not removed ; the free open space between the cane rows the rich soil and the moisture necessary for the growth of the cane afford every facility for the growth of these pests of the husbandman in the tropics : after the diggings are finised they are removed by a s [...] As soon as this is observed by the Gauchea o4 date tree laborer he ascends the tree it the evening and slices away a further portion of the tree cutting deeper this time sd as to divide the sap-vessels and from the centre of the triangle towards its sides in such way that along the latter a sort of channel is formed whichconducts the juice to the lower point o the triangle ; here in a notch i [...] four holes in which the pans are sex : a hole cut at each side one for feeding the fire and the Aar for the escape of the smoke completes the arrangement' gf the furnace; over which a light roof is usually thrown supported by bamboos and thatched with the dried leaves of the °Tat% tree as a partial shelter from the sun and rain; though the latter is unusual during the season when the work is in
agriculture environment
Pages
265
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.140825
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Frommatter
i-viii S. H. Robinson view
Introduction
1-11 unkwon view
Chapter I. On the Native Methods of Cane Cultivation and Manufacture of Goor therefrom
12-44 unkwon view
Chapter II. On the Native Mode of Cultivating the Date Tree and the Production of Goor from its Juice
44-58 unkwon view
Chapter III. On the Native Manufacture of Sugar from Goor
58-94 unkwon view
Chapter IV. On the Cost of Native Sugars in the Calcutta Market
94-100 unkwon view
Chapter I. On the Endeavours Hitherto made to Establish Cane Cultivation and Manufacture Sugar Direct therefrom by Europeans
101-115 unkwon view
Chapter II. On the Best Method of Cane Cultivation by Europeans
115-151 unkwon view
Chapter III. On the Manufacture of Sugar from Cane by The European Method : Embracing the Expression of the Juice Clarification and Evaporation to the State of Syrup
152-168 unkwon view
Chapter IV. On the Manufacture of Sugar from Cane by the European Method Concluded—Embracing Filtration through Cloth and through Animal Charcoal; Concentration; Curing; Cutting up and Packing; and Syrup Sugars
169-184 unkwon view
Chapter V. On the Expences of Manufacture and Cost of Cane Sugars Prepared by The European Method
184-190 unkwon view
Chapter VI. On the Cultivation of the Date Tree and Manufacture of Sugar therefrom by Europeans
190-194 unkwon view
Chapter I. On Molasses Cane and Date
195-198 unkwon view
Chapter II. On Stills and the Distillation of Rum
198-209 unkwon view
Part IV. On the Sugar Statistics of the Bengal Districts
210-246 unkwon view
Appendix
247-248 unkwon view

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