Sugar: A Handbook for Planters and Refiners (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Newlands, John A. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0282640983 ISBN 13: 9780282640989

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from Sugar: A Handbook for Planters and Refiners

The rapid rate at which successive editions of Sugar Growing and Refining have been sold, points conclusively to the demand which existed for information on the all important sugar industry, and to the satisfactory manner in which the want was supplied. But no book of the kind, however com plete, can keep abreast of the times without constant revision, and the introduction of much that is new in chemistry and mechanics. Improved machinery and novel processes, which lessen labour, or cheapen production, or increase returns, must command attention from all who would not be left behind in these keen competitive times, and these subjects cannot receive due attention and study except by means of a comprehensive volume furnished with a good index to facilitate reference. After many years of unfair competition with bounty-fed sugar, there seems at last to be a prospect that the Colonial raised article will be able to fight the foreign product on level terms. When this comes about, the Colonial sugar industry will take great strides, and many estates which have been abandoned as ruined will revive. The owners of these estates will, it may be hoped, recommence operations on a new basis, and instead of repeating the old-fashioned methods, which did well enough when competition was unknown, will adopt at once all the best and most recent processes and appliances for curtailing the cost and improving the product. This again will drive the beet sugar-growers to seek, in improved methods of working, some compensation for the loss incurred by the removal of the bounties. So that there is 3.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0282640983
• ISBN 13: 9780282640989
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1000
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