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Contents 



Increases crop yields 

 Educational value 

 Employment for children 

 Winter employment 

 Centralized population 

 Increases other business 

 National independence 



PAOES 



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CHAPTER XVIII 



SUGAR-ALA.KING 258-267 



Storing the beets 258 



Washing and weighing 260 



Shcing and extraction 261 



Purification of the juice 262 



Evaporation 263 



Graining 264 



The SteflFen process 265 



CHAPTER XIX 



Sugar-cane 268-274 



Adaptation 270 



Soils and manuring 271 



Cultural methods 272 



Harvesting . 273 



Extraction of sugar 274 



CHAPTER XX 



World's use axd supply of sugar 

 Kinds of sugar and properties 



Sugar in nature 



Sugar as a food 



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