Identifier: philippineisland00lalauoft (find matches)
Title: The Philippine Islands
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Lala, Ramon Reyes
Subjects: Philippines -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Continental Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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es is incorporated with the grain. Thenthe liquid is placed in wooden troughs of about eight by four feetin size, and stirred with shovels until cooled sufficiently not to forma solid mass. When cold, the lumps are pounded and broken up,and the wliole is packed in grass-bags for shipment. In the norththe process is carried further, efforts being made to get rid of thernolasses. When the boiled mass has set, the pots containing itare put over pots into which the molasses drains. If left thus forsix months, twenty per cent, of the original weight will drain off.The molasses is sold to distillers to make alcohol, and there issome demand for it to mix with water for horses. The Iloilo sugar generally comes to the United States, beingshipped in the raw state, to be refined there. In Manila the manu-facture of sugar has been more developed, and a quantity of crystalgrain is produced there for export to Spain. The old method ofgrinding the cane, introduced by the Chinese, consists in the use
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Agriculture : The Sugar and Rice Crops. 207 of two rough vertical cutting mills,—cylinders of wood being usedin the south ; of stone in the north. These are fitted with woodenteeth, between which the grain is crushed. j\Iills of this primitivekind are still in use in parts of the country, but are being super-seded by iron rollers sent from England, and, like the former,revolved by buffaloes. Steam mills are also being introduced. InXegros, where foreign influence is predominant, nearly all the millsare of European make. It may be said, further, in this connection, that the sugar-estatesare generallv small, not a dozen in the country yielding more than1,000 tons of raw sugar a year. One that yields 500 tons is de-clared large. And the lack of transportation, too, greatly checksenterprise. In Negros there are no canals or railroads to the coast,and the annual crop needs to be painfully hauled in buffalo carts,to be loaded on schooners, for carriage to the port of Iloilo. Buf-faloes on

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