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PRICES of Sugar and Molasses at Barbados for five years (1903-1907).
Years.
Sugar
Molasses
per 100 lbs.
her galon,
Value of 1 ton sugar and 100 gallons molasses, plus £1 0, 108, for hogshund, and Itix, Bd. for puncheon.
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
Total
Averages Say
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+
d.
等
d. N.
11 #
10 1:
2
0 10%
15
6
11
1 16 094
0 3 6)
58 1
7
V 7
0
0
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11 12 11
0
11 12 11
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Period ...
Average Revenue AND EXPENDITURE ON CERTAIN ESTATES IN THE ISLAND OF BARBADOS FOR TEN YEARS, 1888-1897, INCLUSIVE.
Average sugar crop ...
Average molasses crop
Items.
...
Average quantity of molasses per ton of sugar...
REVENUE.
Revenue per ton of sugar...
Revenue from molasses per ton of sugar ... Revenue from provisions per ton of sugar Revenue from rents per ton of sugar
Revenue from other sources per ton of sugar
EXPENDITURE.
Total revenue per ton of sugar
...
...
...
:
...
Expenditure for cooperage and repairs per tou of Expenditure on agriculture per ton of sugar Expenditure for utensils per ton of sugar sugar.
...
Expenditure for live stock and miscellaneous items per ton of sugar.
Expenditure on food for stock per ton of sugar Expenditure for tradesmen per ton of sugar Expenditure for taxes and insurance periton of Expenditure on manure per ton of sugar... Expenditure for fuel per ton of sugar Expenditure for salaries per ton of sugár ........ sugar.
Total expenditure per ton of sugar
Profit per ton of sugar
...
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...
...
...
A.
Estate.
1888-1897.
T. c.
369 3 3 141
87.80 gals. 32,415.6 gals.
WIN000
14 12 0
==
CONIO
62 40 4.50
FOT 2 O
B.
Estate.
1888-1897.
T. c. q. lb. 140 6 2 103 13.956.2 gals. 99-46 gals.
11 13
18 71 1:
0 11
0.
Estate.
1888-1897.
T. c. q. lb. 76 14 3 12 7,359 gals.
95.89 gals.
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D.
Estate.
1888-1897. T. c. q. lb. 105 11 0,9
8,864 gals.
83.98 gals.
RENOCO
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0 8 5
16 7 3
17 12 5
14 19 2
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ลง
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2
19 91 0
16 % 0
0 11
E.
Estate.
1888-1897.
T. c. q. lb. 143 2 3 22
12,650 gala. 88:37 gals.
*600*
0 6 7
16 3 7
0 13 11
0 18 8
CONCO
*274%
0
F.
Estate.
1888-1897.
T. c. q. lb.
8,504 gals. 124-51 gals. 68 6 0
BS
18 2 4
←
0 15 6)
1 5 6
1 10 3
2 10 10
1 11 6
1 12 8
2 7 3
11 10 0
12 16 10
15 19 7
12 4 6
15 74
13 ᏗᏳ 11
3 1 11
3 10 5
1 12 10
2 14 8
0 16 21
2 15 5
9. As will be observed therefrom, the average value for the past five years of one ton of raw muscovado sugar and 100 gallons of molasses is £11 12s. 11d., that is 14s. 5d. less than the average cost of producing the ton of sugar and its molasses on the twelve estates, after deducting half the value of the provision crop. I may, however, mention that the cost of producing sugar on the twelve estates given in the statement attached is, as I have said above, for some of the years before the reduction in the price of labour took place, and it may, therefore, be said that after making allowance for this, the average price obtained for sugar and molasses for the past five years hardly does more than pay for the cost of production, any profit made by the estate being derived from land rented to labourers as provision grounds, lands planted in sweet potato and other crops, and the revenue received from miscel- laneous sources, amounting to about £2 10s. per ton of sugar.
10. It might be asked "Why produce sugar when it does not pay, instead of growing sweet potatoes and other crops that do pay?" The reply to this is that the sweet potatoes and other crops only require a limited amount of labour for their production, while the cultivation of the sugar cane and its manufacture into sugar requires a large number of labourers, and it is by growing sugar and finding employ- ment for a number of people that these people are enabled with the money so earned to rent land from the sugar estates, and to purchase the provision crops, thus enabling the estates to make a profit.
11. Trusting that the information supplied is what Your Excellency requires.
I have, &c.,
JOHN R. BоVELL.
Superintendent.
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AVERAGE REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE ON CERTAIN ESTATES IN THE ISLAND OF BARBADOS.
Items.
Ꮐ .
Estate.
Period
Average sugar crop
Average molasses crop
Average quantity of molasses per ton of sugar
T. c. 107 8 0 0
1890-1900.
4.
lb.
8,762-18 gals.
81-58 gals.
H.
Estate.
1.
· Estate.
1890-1960.
T. c. q. lb. 125 19 i 16 11,607-72 gals. 92-15 gals.
1901-1906. T. c. q. ib. 2.6 18 0 201 36,065-53 gals, 121-47 gals.
J.
Estate.
1891-1902.
T. c. q. lb. 120 13 2 25
8,695 gals.
72-04 gals.
K.
Estate.
L.
1804-1902.
T. c. q. lb.
272 1 2 21 25,003 gals. 91.90 gals.
Estate.
1897-1906.
T. c. q. lb. 184 1 2 277% 17,392-80 gals. 94.48 gals.
REVENUE.
£ s. d.
£ s. d.
£
10 11 4
10 15 71
8 19
a
Revenue per ton of sugar
Revenue from molasses per ton of sugar
2 15 9
3 8 7
3 18
Revenue from provisions per ton of sugar
0 5 8k
0 9 4
0 8
0 14
Revenue from rents per ton of sugar
0 6 7
0 4 0
0 9
1
Revenue from other sources per ton of sugar
0 13 9
0 5 21
0 12 2
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R
£
s. d.
£
8. d.
9 15 9
8 7 5
2 17 1
2 19 11
0 11 3
0 2 74
0 4 2
1 3 41
0 11 11
Total revenue per ton of sugar
14 13 3
15 2 9
14 7 11
13 5 6
14 0 3
0 3 10
0 4 7
11 18 6
EXPENDITURE.
82
Expenditure on agriculture per ton of sugar Expenditure for cooperage and repairs per ton of Bugar.
Expenditure for utensils per ton of sugar
4 16 44
4 14 0
3 12 9
3 9 9
4 7 31
3 10 11
1 7
1
1
10
2 0.9
1 17 11
2 1 11
Expenditure for live stock and miscellaneous items
0 17 5
0 12 2
0 14. 91⁄2
0 3
0 7 8
0 12 0
per ton of sugar.
Expenditure for tradesmen per ton of sugar
0 11 11
0 9 31
6 9 10
0 6 31
0 11 3
0 10 6
Expenditure on food for stock per ton of sugar
0 11 2
0 11 5
0 13 45
0 14
2
0 13 3
0 8 31
Expenditure on manure per ton of sugar...
1 18 9
2 1 10
11 8
14
0
1 7 10
2 1 4
Expenditure for fuel per ton of sugar
0 1 7
0 0 24
0 2 51
0
0 3
Expenditure for taxes and insurance per ton of
0 15 0
0 15 10
0 14
7
0 13
0 13 3
0 10 7
sugar.
Expenditure for salaries per ton of sugar...
1 6 7
1 5 41
1
0 0
1 6 63
1 3 0
I 7 21
Total expenditure per ton of sugar
12 6 2}
11 14 10
11 18 0
9 18 1
11 5 1
10 18 10
Profit per ton of sugar
2 7 0
3 7 11
2 9 10
3 7 5
215 14
1 9 8
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