From Soil to Sack 



crystals a centrifugal ma- 

 chine. 



5. A means for washing and filter- 

 ing the raw sugar thus pro- 

 duced and of reducing it to the 

 clean, pure, white crystals of 

 commerce. 



In the manufacture of beet sugar, 

 these operations are frequently car- 

 ried on under one roof; the beet 

 sugar factory may well be a com- 

 plete institution, buying its beets 

 from the neighboring farmers (often 

 furnishing them the seed and super- 

 vising their crops), and turning out 

 a complete commercial sugar. 



This arrangement is possible, in 

 the case of beet sugar, because sugar 

 beets can be grown in climates and 

 localities suitable for manufacturing. 

 In the case of cane sugar, however, 

 the process is split in two. Cane is 

 a product of the tropics and semi- 

 tropics where sugar refining could be 

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