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The Most Economical Quantity of Filter-Press-Cake to Apply on the Red Soils of Hacienda Florencia
Locsin, C.L. 1930.  The application of about 75 tons of wet filter-press-cake per hectare on the red soils of Hda. Florencia, without further addition of chemical fertilizers to the plant crop, produces big yields of sugar and is highly profitable. The Most Economical Quantity of…

The Estimation of Cane Maturity and Commercial Sugar Yield with the Hand Refractometer
King, R.H. 1930.  An investigation undertaken to determine the exactness of the readings of the hand refractometer and to determine the constants used in determining cane maturity and the available sugar yield in the growing cane. The Estimation of Cane Maturity and Commercial Sugar Yield…

The Effect of Humidity on the Deterioration of Centrifugal Cane Sugar During Storage
King, R.H. and Suerte, D. 1930.  To evaluate the possible deterioration, that is, sucrose loss under various conditions of relative humidity, length of exposure to such a relative humidity, the deterioration factor, the effect of humidity on the caking and stickiness of sugar and the…

The Application of the Colorimeter and other Optical Measuring Instruments in the Sugar Industry
-------------. 1930.  A plant running day and night during milling season must performed control and analyses on materials which are rapidly changing in physical and chemical composition. For this reason, instrumental analysis is used wherever possible. The Application of the…

Sucrose Losses in Crystallizers During Cooling
King, R.H. and Jamora, E.B. 1930.  In order to evaluate the possible inversion of sucrose under the two boiling system, twelve crystallizers of Calamba Sugar Estate were placed under investigation for varying periods of time. Determination of gravity solids and sucrose were made at varying intervals on the massecuite in the…