. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. XII. No, 292. THE AGKICULTUnAL 21.'. In cliKsing Inok rif questions it may not. iifrhapi!, be out of place to ask an additional one—How niucii iipplied chemistry and engineering ought raanageri and overseers to be acquainted with? The answer to it is,—at least the infor- mation in this book. TIIK CAXE Si'GAR FACTORY: Hy Y J. Scard, 7'/ie ]\'e<t India Committee. London 191:3. To those holding junior positions in with sugar cane factories, ihis handy volume will prove extremely
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. XII. No, 292. THE AGKICULTUnAL 21.'. In cliKsing Inok rif questions it may not. iifrhapi!, be out of place to ask an additional one—How niucii iipplied chemistry and engineering ought raanageri and overseers to be acquainted with? The answer to it is,—at least the infor- mation in this book. TIIK CAXE Si'GAR FACTORY: Hy Y J. Scard, 7'/ie ]\'e<t India Committee. London 191:3. To those holding junior positions in with sugar cane factories, ihis handy volume will prove extremely useful The subject matter is arrangeil concisely in the form of question and answer in a similar manner to that adopted in the Cater/iixm of Ayrirnltiircil Chev-istri/, by Professor Johnston, and in the A li C of Cotton Cultimtion of the IVrnphlet Series of the Imperial Department of Agriculture fur liie West Indies. As with all works of this type, the use of the book must be accompanied by a practical acquaint- ance with the various points dealt witli : it is not a book to be studied systematically, but to be referred to in times of difficulty, and at times when the young overseer or engineer or chemist is not fully conversant with the objects and principles of any particular operation of which he is in charge. In the first section of the catechism, which concerns the sul'joct of milling, the questions and answers connected with maceration should jirove particularly helpful. The second section, on clarification, the operations of liming and the uses of siiliihurous, phnsphoiic and Ciirbouic acids. The succeeding subject is filtration, followed by some thirty questions and answers on concentration, which explain the causes of common difficulties encountered in th'e management of the multiple effect. In riew of the impor- tance of the subject, a large amount of attention is given next to crystallization, and after dealing with the subject of centrifugalling, the a
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