The Manufacture of Cane Sugar

Abstract

A NOTEWORTHY feature in tropical agriculture is the new lease of life taken recently by the cane-sugar industry. A few years ago it appeared not improbable, to say the least, that the sugar-cane was doomed to be forced into a position permanently inferior to that of the beet as a source of the world's supply of sugar. Originally possessed of a practical monopoly, the cane had lost so much ground that in the opening years of this century the beet supplied about two-thirds of the sugar which came into the world's markets. It is true that a great deal of cane-sugar is consumed in countries where it is produced and escapes record; so far as the world's commerce was concerned beet was the chief contributor. Within, however, the last five years, the output of cane-sugar has markedly increased, whilst that of beet has slightly diminished, and a little more than one-half of the sugar of commerce is now derived from the sugar-cane. The Manufacture of Cane Sugar. By Llewellyn Jones F. I. Scard. Pp. xix + 454. (London: Edward Stanford, 1909.) Price 12s. 6d. net.