OUTLINE OF THIS WORK. 



Author. HERBERT MYRICK, editor American Agriculturist, Orange Judd 

 Farmer, New England Homestead, Farm and Home ; author (jointly with Col J. 

 B. Killebrew) of "Leaf Tobacco: Its Culture and Cure, Marketing and Manufac- 

 ture;"also of "How to Co-operate," etc, etc. ; President Orange Judd Company, 

 Treasurer American Sugar Growers' Society, etc, etc. Assisted by PROF W. C. 

 STUBBS, director Louisiana Sugar Experiment Station, by various directors of 

 State Agricultural Experiment Stations, and by numerous practical experts in the 

 culture of sugar beets on a successful commercial scale. Embodying also the 

 results of all work upon this subject by the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Character. IN GENERAL, the book aims to give an account of what has been done 

 in the Beet and Cane sugar industry, just how it has been done, with reliable 

 directions from actual recent experience under American conditions, that make it 

 a guide to the farmer, capitalist, and others now or likely to be interested in any 

 way in the sugar industry. Yet it is not blind to the ; fact that there is much to 

 learn in this matter under American conditions. 



Illustrated with over 100 ENGRAVINGS, mostly from photographs taken especially 

 for this work, of beet sugar factory interiors and exteriors, cane sugarhouses, im- 

 plements, etc., with maps showing the present conditions and possibilities of 

 American sugar industry. 



Part One.-THE AMERICAN SUGAR INDUSTRY IN ITS ECONOMIC ASPECTS 

 The farmer, the tariff and the sugar industry Imports of sugar into United States 

 An economic crime How competition of foreign sugar has grown Present 

 and future competition in suscar Injustice of the Hawaiian treaty The world's 

 production of sugar What of the United States American farmers' demands- 

 Can this country produce its own sugar? Will the United States produce its own 

 sugar? Time necessary The risk to capital What stands in the way of the 

 American sugar industry? What is needed Amount of protection required Duty 

 on sugar in the United States and other countries Will protection enhance the 

 price of sugar to consumers? Why has not the American sugar industry developed 

 more rapidly? Farmers now mean business American Sugar Growers' Society, 

 its objects, plan of work and preliminary organization. 



Part Two. THE CANE SUGAR INDUSTRY The area capable of growing sugar 

 cane Peculiarity of the crop Present obstacles to the cane industry The great 



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