537 50
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$11,787 50

Commission for purchasing and shipping,
&c., at 5 per cent. 589 37
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$12,376 87

This is about equal to its price if purchased and cleaned in another
manner; for instance:--

1,000 cavans province rice, costing, say, 10-1/2
rials per cavan, = $1,312 50

will generally produce 85 per cent. clean white
rice, fit for shipping, and 10 per cent. broken
rice, which can be sold at about 5-1/4 rials
per cavan, = 65 62

thus 150 cavans (equal to about 820 peculs) will ---------
cost $1,246 88

Add the expenses of receiving on board the native
boats, measuring there, landing, re=measuring,
cleaning, bags and bagging, averaging from about
70 to 80 cents. per pecul of cleaned rice, say at
75 cents, = 615 00
---------
$1,861 88

or equal to $2-27/100 per pecul for clean white rice, ready for
shipment.

_Sugar._--Although the cane is cultivated to a greater or less
extent throughout all the islands, there are four descriptions of
sugar well known in commerce, grown in the Philippines, and these
come respectively from the districts of Pampanga, Pangasinan, Cebu,
and Saal, after which districts they are named; and the growth of
other places producing similar sugars to any of these descriptions,
usually passes under one of these names in the market, although Yloylo
is sometimes, though rarely, distinguished as a separate quality. The
mills employed for expressing the juice from the cane are nearly all
of stone; and firewood is usually employed to boil the sugar; for
although they have for some years introduced the plan of employing
the refuse of the cane for that purpose, it is not yet very general.

A large quantity of the Muscovado sugar made in the country, resembling
the descriptions produc