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worked by the best modern appliances would yield about 180 pounds 

 of merchantable sugar per ton, of which from 140 to 150 pounds would 

 be high grade, first sugars, and the rest low grade, second and third 

 sugars. For sirup making, however, these canes are of excellent 

 quality. The high quantity of reducing sugar, which interferes with 

 sugar manufacture, is no bar to sirup manufacture; on the contrary it 

 is an advantage, as the reducing sugar is quite as sweet and palatable 

 as sucrose and has a much lower coefficient of crystallization. Hence 

 its presence in the product, while impairing neither its appearance 

 nor its taste, improves the selling qualities of the sirup by diminishing 

 the tendency to crystallization. 



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