VI PREFACE 



who wants to know all about the history of sugar, with- 

 out being troubled with its technicalities. Those who 

 desire the technicalities, most interesting and essential 

 to the expert, must read the latest edition (1911) of 

 Noel Deerr's " Cane Sugar," from the same publisher, 

 who has also published " Practical White Sugar Manu- 

 facture " (1915), and " Chemical Control in Cane Sugar 

 Factories " (1917), both by Dr. H. C. Prinsen Geerligs. 

 Another book from the same publisher deals again with 

 " Plantation White Sugar and its Manufacture," by 

 Harloff and Schmidt, translated from the second revised 

 Dutch edition by James P. Ogilvie, F.C.S., Technical 

 Editor of the International Sugar Journal. A new book 

 has recently appeared from the United States, " Some- 

 thing About Sugar," by George M. Rolph, a handsome 

 volume, well illustrated, giving first a full account of 

 production and refining, and then a history of the 

 industry. 



The diagram in the Appendix is merely intended to 

 indicate that variation in visible supplies is the cause 

 of variations in price. It is not put there for statistical 

 purposes, but it does, incidentally, illustrate what 

 happened at a very critical period in the history of sugar, 

 namely, that the abolition of the bounties, in 1903, had 

 no effect on the price of sugar, which remained rather 

 below the cost of production, except when, in 1904, a 

 bad beetroot crop, which deprived consumers of 

 1,200,000 tons of sugar, sent prices up for a few months, 

 until a good crop, in 1905, sent them down again below 

 cost of production. 



