84 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMEXT STATIOX. I905. 



C. Sugars and Related Substaxces. 

 a. sugar axd sugar products. 



Sugars. 



1. Sugar is the product chemically known as sucrose (sac- 

 charose) chiefly obtained from sugar cane, sugar beets, sorghum, 

 maple, or palm. 



2. Granulated, loaf, cut, milled, and powdered sugars are 

 different forms of sugar and contain at least ninety-nine and five- 

 tenths (99.5) per cent of sucrose. 



3. Maple sugar is the solid product resulting from the evapo- 

 ration of maple sap. 



4. Massecuite, melada, mush sugar, z.nA concrete are prod- 

 ucts made by evaporating the purified juice of a sugar-producing 

 plant, or a solution of sugar, to a solid or semi-solid consistence 

 in which the sugar chiefly exists in a cr}-stalline state. 



Molasses and Refiners' Sirup. 



1. Molasses is the product left after separating the sugar 

 from massecuite, melada, mush sugar, or concrete, and contains 

 not more than twenty-five (25 j per cent of water and not more 

 than five (5) per cent of ash. 



2. ReHners' sirup ("treacle") is the residual liquid product 

 obtained in the process of refining raw sugars and contains not 

 more than twenty-five (25) per cent of water and not more than 

 eight (8) per cent of ash. 



Sirups. 



1. Sirup is the product made by purifying and evaporating 

 the juice of a sugar-producing plant without removing any of 

 the sugar and contains not more than thirty (30) per cent of 

 w'ater and not more than two and five-tenths (2.5) per cent of 

 ash. 



2. Sugar-cane sirup is sirup made by the evaporation of the 

 juice of the sugar cane or by the solution of sugar-cane con- 

 crete. 



3. Sorghum sirup is sirup made by the evaporation of sor- 

 ghum juice or by the solution of sorghum concrete. 



