Re: It's still academic

[jdennis@acslink.net.au]

In article <19990222033459.00954.00001466@ng-fb1.aol.com>,
  markbau1@aol.comQQQQyuk (MarkBau1) wrote:
> <<<<<<In fact, the sugar cane haulage almost exceeed that of National Rail,
> Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania combined!  That total was 26.7m
>
> Cheers...JD>>>>>>>
>
> What the hell do they do with ALL that sugar???

I don't know how much raw sugar comes out of the mills.  That loading is
cane, which is (effectively) just squeezed while the syrup drips out.  A
large amount of the cane transported to the mills is burnt as bagasse (sp), a
by product of the milling process.

John Dennis
Home of the Dutton Bay Tramway
http://www.acslink.net.au/~jdennis/dbt.html

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