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cane juice. Beet sugar is exactly the same as cane sugar, 

 although when first made methods of purification were not 

 perfect, and the admixed impurities made its quality poorer 

 than that of cane sugar. 



Fig. 14. — Boiling cane juice in a sugar factory at Guadaloupe. 



The various uses of cane sugar are too well known to 

 need description. 



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