SUGAR FARMING 155 



TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION 



1. Have your mother help estimate the amount of 

 sugar consumed in your home in a year. How many pounds 

 to the person? 



2. What proportion of this sugar is cane? Beet? Sor- 

 ghum? Corn? Maple? Where is each produced? 



3. Make a study of the process by which each kind 

 of sugar is manufactured and write an account of it. Join 

 with your teacher in making a collection of samples of 

 sugars in different stages of manufacture. 



4. Draw a map of the United States and locate the 

 sugar regions. 



5. What sugars are produced in your region? Could 

 others be successfully grown? If not, is the trouble in 

 the climate, soil, or both? Ask your father about this. 



6. Sugar Demonstrations 



1. Demonstrate how to test sugar beet, cane, maple 

 and sorghum seeds, for vitality, using the cloth and blotter 

 tester. 



2. Demonstrate how to change sugar into sirup and 

 sirup into sugar. Explain processes. 



3. Demonstrate by the use of lump and powdered su- 

 gar the soil capillarity and the use of a surface mulch for 

 the preservation of moisture. 



4. Demonstrate how to find the starch and sugar con- 

 tent of a sugar cane or sugar beet. 



5. Demonstrate how to tap a maple tree, including 

 preparation of material, tapping tree, hanging container in 

 place, and closing up the wound after tapping. 



7. Sugar Play Contests 



1. Sugar variety naming contest. 



2. Contest in sugar making. 



3. Contest in tapping maple trees. 



