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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 sugar—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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