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| Part I Growth, Manufacture and Distribution |
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| What Sugar Is | 3 |
| The Growing of Sugar Cane | 6 |
| Soil Analysis | 8 |
| Entomology | 8 |
| Pathology | 9 |
| The Manufacture of Raw Sugar | 22 |
| Extraction | 22 |
| Purification | 25 |
| Evaporation | 28 |
| Concentration and Crystallization | 31 |
| Preparation of Crystals for the Market | 33 |
| Transportation and Delivery of Raw Sugar | 37 |
| Polarization | 39 |
| Refining of Raw Sugar | 44 |
| Washing | 50 |
| Melting | 54 |
| Defecation | 54 |
| Bone-char Filtration | 59 |
| Crystallization | 65 |
| Partial Drying | 69 |
| Final Drying of Crystals | 69 |
| Screening | 71 |
| Packing | 73 |
| Cube Sugar | 77 |
| Powdered and Bar Sugar | 79 |
| Yellow Sugars | 81 |
| Mechanical Department | 84 |
| Laboratory | 87 |
| Cost of Refining | 88 |
| Shipping Department | 91 |
| Marketing | 93 |
| Beet Sugar | 100 |
| The Sugar Beet | 102 |
| Selection of the Soil | 103 |
| Planting | 104 |
| Thinning | 106 |
| Cultivation | 107 |
| Harvesting and Topping | 107 |
| Manufacture of Beet Sugar | 110 |
| Transportation and Cleaning | 110 |
| Extraction of Juice, Slicing and Diffusion | 111 |
| Purification of Juice, Carbonation and Filtration | 112 |
| Concentration of Juice | 113 |
| Sulfitation | 114 |
| Formation of Grain | 115 |
| Steffen Process | 115 |
| Part II History of the Industry |
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| Early History | 119 |
| Beet Sugar in Europe | 128 |
| Beet Sugar in the United States | 148 |
| Territory of Hawaii | 163 |
| Louisiana | 175 |
| Porto Rico | 182 |
| The Philippines | 189 |
| Cuba | 201 |
| Jamaica | 213 |
| Barbados | 220 |
| Trinidad | 224 |
| Santo Domingo | 227 |
| Guadeloupe and Martinique | 233 |
| Guadeloupe | 233 |
| Martinique | 234 |
| Guadeloupe and Martinique | 236 |
| Mexico | 243 |
| Peru | 249 |
| Brazil | 256 |
| British Guiana | 264 |
| Argentina | 271 |
| Formosa | 276 |
| Java | 283 |
| Australia | 302 |
| Mauritius | 309 |
| Natal | 317 |
| Egypt | 320 |
| Spain | 324 |
| India | 330 |
| Conclusion | 338 |