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The
MAURITIUS ROYAL COMMIBStos, Long
Mr A. WALTER.
Continued
capital charge includes interest on mortgage loans and all expenditure for new nuchinery. It is not the practice in Emidings, do, which may be considered to have increased the value of the estate. Mauritius to consider the introduction of new immigrants an item of current expenditure, but in this report it has been so charged, one-fifth being borne by each of the five years over which the engagement of the labourer
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TABLE 11
Cost of Production and Manipulation on Estate M of Table III
Cost of Producing 1 Ton of 'ane.
17 August 1909 |
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE.
Mr. A. Walter.
107
[l'ontinued
In determining the yield per arpent the acreage under virgina, ** sautées," and ratoons, respectively were weighted according to the yield obtained from each of these ages of cane; the weights as determine from 20 years' records on an estate situated in the centre of the Island being-
Virgins Sautées
Rationa
12
3.3 25
TABLE IV.
Cost of Converting 1 Ton of C'une into Sugar.
Yield per Arpent.
Estate.
Interest
Year
Harvested
Year
Purchasing
on
Total
Total
Interest
Planters'
Factory
Cultiva Working On
tion Expenses Faisance."
Total. Canes
L'ont
Working Expenses
Corrected for Climatic Effect.
Adopted
Normal.
Adjusted Area under
Cultivation.
Normal
Yield of
Cane.
Resulting
Cost per Ton of Cane.
Faisance Cont.
Valoir.
1
2.
3.
4.
3
6.
Valoir
Tons.
Tons.
Tona.
1
-
2.
3
+
5
6
M.
9.
三
1892
20-1
26-8
25-8
Arpants.
928
Tons. 23,890-8
R
9.50
1493
26.9
-
25 6
25-8
1,167
30,108-6
9.16
Rx
R.
R.
RH
Ri
RK
RH
Rs.
R
R
1894
23.4
27.0
25.8
881
JM202
Ni4
3.49
0.07
19-90
12-08
2.50
0-82
0-02
3-34
14495
24.5
24.0
25.8
1,179
18903
647
2-25
0-05
8.77
12-11
8.91
2.21
0.61
0-01
2.83
1496
24/1.
25.8
1,016
18964
D86
3.67
0·14
13 67
11 17
13 44
2-65
083
0.03
1895
6 28
246
0-09
883
10:45
904
2 14
072
0.03
1
1896
!
6 XX
0 06
9.90
9.01
9.72
2.47
0) N4
0 02
13-51
2-89
3.33
197
22.5
27.2
25-8
988
Kei 1
24.2+
25-8
1,026
22.729-8 39,418-2 26,212.8 25,490-4 26,470-8
12.412
8.34
9.25
9.45
8.68
1499
24.0
26 4
25-8
1,012
26.109.6
7.48
1897
7 21
3 50
6 13
10-84
9-17
10-58
2.70
15
0-04
3 91
1900
28.1
24.1
20.0
945
24,570.0
8.11
MINI
5 90
אז 2
011
9.13
8-95
2-09
0-91
0.03
3.03
1901
21.6
27.7
26
914
23,855-4
8-37
į
1899
5 27
245
10-11
8.03
10:33
8 48
2.37
1.01
0.04
3 42
1992
21-0
25.4
26.2
943
24,706-6
10-57
I
1900
& 37
2 03
0·10
7:50
11.53
8-73 2.96
0-94
0:05
3 95
1903
32.6
28.0
27.0
857
23,139.0
10-25
1901
7 14
2 66
0.2K
10-12
10-59
10.29
3-17
1 11
0.12
4.40
1904
25-6
28.1
28.5
1,085
30,992-5
8.00
1902
978
3.15 !
0.24
13.17
9-81
11-55 2.91
49.92
0-07
3.90
1905
28.6
35.8
33.5
1,037
34,799.5
8.13
1903
6 27
2-19
0·00
8.46
9.92
9.02
2.25
0 67
2.92
1906
38-3
34.3
36.0
1,119
1980-4
6 78
2-10
0.04
8.92
13.33
10.51
2.85
9-720-02
i
3.59
1907
32·6
37.1
36.5
1,158
40,284-0 42,267.0
8.01
8.00
1:05
6 45
1-97
0-24
8.66
10.67
9-38
2.31
0.54
0.07
2.92
!
19045
6 11
1:56
0.25
7-92
8 67
8.12 2.11
!
0.49
0.08
2.68
1907
6.75
1.75
0 49
R-99
با
2-21
0-52
0.15
2.89
Very heavy rains, climatic effect uncertain
Number of arpenta cut appears too small.
.
*. - After the crop of 1902-03, cans were partly paid for in sugar. En determining the cost of planters' enter the amount of sugar given to the planter in exchange for his canes has been inultiplied by the average market price. high price of plaüters cubes in 1904.
Hence the
TABLE III.
Average Cost of Producing 100 the. of Sugar,
Nume of Estate.
Excess of
Market.
Market
Year
Value
M.
N.
0.
P.
Average
= Profit.
Virgins and sautés u" probably damage:l by small cyclone of December 1997.
N.B. Between 1903 and 1904, cane trash buried and molasses returned to the land.
Adding the weight of the planters' canes purchased to the "normal yield of cane" (column 5) and multiplying by the extraction gives the "normal yield of sugar" from which the cost of 100 lbs. of sugar can be deduced freed from climatic changes and irregular acreage under the different categories of growth, virgins, sautées, and
ratoons.
This value is given in the following table and compared with the factors-improvements in cultivation. weight of planters' canes crushed and extraction in the mill-on which it may reasonably be expected to depend.
TABLE V.
Rs.
Re.
Rs.
Ra
Rs.
Re
1892
11.18
12·43
15.43
-
13.01
12.19
Ra -0.82
Year
Normal Yield of Caue per Arpent.
Weight of Planters' Canes purchased.
Mill Extraction per cent.
Weight of Cane.
of Sugar freed from Climatic Effect.
Cost of 100 lba.
Capital
Charges for New Machinery.
1893
8.02
7.99
7.35
5.29
6-71
10-21
+3.50
1.
2.
8.
4.
5.
1804
10.17
10.58
12.23
5.96
9.74
9.60
-0.05
1-95
6.78
7.72
9.24
5.32
7.26
9.75
+2.49
Tons.
Tons.
Per Cent.
R..
C.
Rs.
1496
7.73
0.734
7.24
5.76
7.61
8-24
+0.63
1492
25.8
1,231-4
7.32
8
81
[97
F.34
K-UR
7.41
5.10
7:46
8.15
+ 0·60
1993
25.8
1,168.5
9.80
6
47
THOX
7:19
5-26
5.23
4·07
5.44
7.12
+1.68
1494
25-8
2,078.5
8.77
9
31
1899
6.68
6-57
5.78
4.53
5.99
8.15
+2.26
1895
25.8
4,067.4
8.98
6 57
1900
6.89
5.82
6.40
4.00
5-78
8.75
+ 2.97
1×96
25.8
6,332-5
9.45
7 02
16,000
8.31
9.29
7:08
5.42
7-52
7.25
-0.27
1897
25.8
4,166.2
9.06
7 42
2,000
1902
8:00
10.68
8.43
5.46
8.14
7.25
-0.89
1898
25.8
7,689.4
8.67
6 83
1,000
1903
6.74
8.26
7.69
3.63
6.58
6.75
+0-17
1999
25.8
5.897.9
9.33
6 31
1904
7-37
6.20
8-43
4.69
6.67
9.70
+3-03
1900
28.0
11,717-9
10.17
7
17
4,000 31,000
194015
6.52
8.89
6-22
4.24
6.97
7:00
+1.08
1901
26.1
11,672.3
9.67
7 34-
25,000
1906
5-93
7·08
5.09
4·00
5.52
6.60
+ 1·08
ציון
26.2
. 18,304.9
10.31
7 11
28,000
15+
5.77
7-60
6.94
1
5.32
6:41
7.60
+1.10
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
27.0
17,368-7
10.48
7 38
95,000
28.5
15,667-1
10.60
6 86
28,000
39.5
17,844-5
10-54
6 25
21,000
36.0
15,212.6
10.94
3 98
46,000
36-5
16,965.6
11.09
5 32
81,000
+ Total crop is uncertain.
The Returns for Estate M. have been still further analysed and results of some interest obtained. It is very evident that the cost of production will be determined to a considerable extent by the seasonable changes. The elimination of the climatic effect becomes in consequence an important factor in ascertaining the industrial progress of an Estate.
This has been done on lines similar to those adopted in a statistical analysis of the sugar industry; and from the various coefficienta there determined the agricultural effect of each season was computed for the district in which the estate is situated and the yield per arpent corrected accordingly, in order to obtain the normal yield. The values thus obtained were plotted on squared paper (figure 1) and the normal yield per arpent given in column 3 of the following table, adopted.
↑ Not reproduced.
An attempt has been made to determine the relative effects of the three factors in columns 1, 2, and 3 on the final cost per 100 lbs. of sugar (column 4, Table V.), but the transition period ccurs in all three fact ›rs at the end of the series under discussion (1.4., between 1902 and 1908), and extraordinary expenditure on tramways, &c. has considerably affected the results. It appeared from a cursory analysis, however, that the coat of production has so far been controlled to a greater extent by the proportion of planters' canes purchased than
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