Cuban Cane Sugar 



carried on, for several reasons, to 

 poor advantage. The cane planter, 

 therefore, converts his crop of cane 

 immediately into raw sugar on his 

 own premises, or in the neighbor- 

 hood, and this raw sugar is sent to 

 refiners in the country of consump- 

 tion, where the after-processes are 



carried out. 



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The making of sugar, from the soil 

 to the sack, is a simple process, and 

 an interesting one; considering that 

 it has only lately been rescued from 

 the primitive, considering the ad- 

 vancements already wrought, and 

 considering its ever increasing im- 

 portance among the world's produc- 

 tions, one can but wonder what new 

 efficiencies and what further econo- 

 mies inventive genius holds in store 

 for it. 



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