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and  the  mass  of  tangled  stalks  finally  falls  between  two  huge  corru- 
gated rollers  forming  the  crusher.  This  reduces  the  stalks  to  an 
even  blanket  of  pulp  and  squeezes  out  at  the  same  time  a  large 
Fig.  6 — Yard  of  a  Cuban  sugar  factory. 
Fig.  7. — Dumping  cane  at  factory. 
amount  of  juice  which  flows  away  at  the  bottom  (Fig.  8).  From 
the  crusher  the  cane  passes  to  the  first  mill,  which  consists  of  three 
powerful  rollers,  two  below  and  one  above;  it  is  next  conveyed  to 
