Cuban Cane Sugar 



We have before us, now, a general 

 survey of the methods by which our 

 sugar crop is commercialized. There 

 are many by-processes not necessary 

 to describe here many ingenious 

 short cuts and many efficient means 

 of utilizing the sugars in waste 

 products of manufacture, but the 

 process as a whole follows the lines 

 described here. 



Thus we see that the essentials of 

 sugar making are: 



1. A plant such as cane or the 

 sugar beet, which yields sugar 

 economically in crystallizable 

 form. 



2. A means for separating the 

 juice from the woody and other 

 constituents of the plant. 



3. A means for clarifying, purify- 

 ing, and making germ-proof this 

 juice or syrup. 



4. An apparatus for separating 

 the molasses from the sugar 



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