The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . ninety feet in height, beside which is the mill front of the crushing door, in high piles, the uncrushed canes He await-ing treatment,while long linesof trucks withtowering loadsof saccharine-yielding canes,stand ready fordischarge. Atravelling tableattended to byrows of coolies,bears a constantsupph of thecanes to therollers, which arejust inside theentrance. Theserollers are hugegrooved ironaffairs set insuch a positionas to extract thejuice, and passBUFFALO FALLS thc baagas out at the other side of the mill.
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . ninety feet in height, beside which is the mill front of the crushing door, in high piles, the uncrushed canes He await-ing treatment,while long linesof trucks withtowering loadsof saccharine-yielding canes,stand ready fordischarge. Atravelling tableattended to byrows of coolies,bears a constantsupph of thecanes to therollers, which arejust inside theentrance. Theserollers are hugegrooved ironaffairs set insuch a positionas to extract thejuice, and passBUFFALO FALLS thc baagas out at the other side of the mill. The canes are crushed twice, toinsure complete extraction. All this time a constant streamof juice is falling in a veritable saccharine cascade into thebroad troughs prepared for its 126 The grey, watery looking fluid then passes through thevarious processes of boiling, condensing, purifying, crystallizing,and finishing until it emerges in beautiful snow-white, goldenyellow, or brown crystals. It is not necessary in this place todeal with the manufacture in detail, but the tourist will alwaysfind a hearty welcome at the hands of the energetic andkindly general manager, Mr. Marshall Campbell, or some ofhis people. The total acreage of this Companys estate is large, andthe careful management, carried out on practical and economicallines, cannot fail to win approval from the most casual mill turned out last year (1893), over 4,000 tons of sugarfrom its own and adjoining planters canes. The estateemploys 250 Kafirs, 1,500 Indians (men, women and children),and about thirty families of whites as managers, sub-managers,engineers, and artisans. The Mount Edgecombe Station, which is contiguous tothe mill, discharged last year 11,496 tons of material, etc.,equa
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