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SUGAR:

A HANDBOOK FOR PLANTERS AND

BEING A

REFINERS:

Comprehensive Treatise on the Culture of Sugar-yielding Plants, and on the Manufacture, Refining, and Analysis of Cane, Palm, Maple, Melon, Beet, Sorghum, Milk, and Starch Sugars.

With Copious Statistics of their Production and Commerce, and a Chapter on the Distillation of Rum.

By C. G. WARNFORD LOCK, F.L.S., &c.,

B. E. R. NEWLANDS, F.C.S., F.I.C., Mem. Council Soc. Chemical Industry,

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J. A. R. NEWLANDS, F.C.S., F.I.C.

UPWARDS OF TWO HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS AND MANY PLATES.

PRINCIPAL CONTENTS.

Introductory—Chemistry of Sugar. History. Literature-Cane Sugar-Chapter 1. Cuitivation of the Plant--2. Composition of the Juice-3. Extraction of the Juice-4. Defecation and Clarification-5. Concentration and Granulation-6. Curing the Sugar-7. Complete Factories-8. Central Factories-9. Palm Sugar-10. Maple Sugar-11. Melon Sugar-Beet Sugar-12. Cultivation of the Plant-13. Extraction of the Juice-14. Defecation of the Juice-15. Concentration of the Syrup-16. Curing the Sugar-17. Sorghum and Maize Sugar-18. Refining-19. Analysis— 20. Milk Sugar-21. Starch Sugar and other Glucoses-22. Production and Commerce-23. Distillation of Rum.

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