. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. 270 A TEXT-BOOK OF nOTAXY India, China, Japan, and the East Indies; but our own Gulf States are developing the industry rapidly. The Carolina rice is said to be the l^est in the market, and before the Civil War South Carolina was our great rice-producing State. In 1899, howc^â cr, Louisiana produced more than twice as much rice as all the other Gulf States combined. South Carolina being second. Rice in the husk is called paddy; and this is the general name also for rice in India. (2) Sugar-Canes.âThe ordinary sugar of commerce is cane-suga
. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. 270 A TEXT-BOOK OF nOTAXY India, China, Japan, and the East Indies; but our own Gulf States are developing the industry rapidly. The Carolina rice is said to be the l^est in the market, and before the Civil War South Carolina was our great rice-producing State. In 1899, howc^â cr, Louisiana produced more than twice as much rice as all the other Gulf States combined. South Carolina being second. Rice in the husk is called paddy; and this is the general name also for rice in India. (2) Sugar-Canes.âThe ordinary sugar of commerce is cane-sugar, which is obtained mostly from sugar-cane; but in Europe it is ob- tained largely from beets. Sugar-cane is a tropical and subtropical grass, a native of the East In- dies, but is cultivated wherever there is a warm climate, a deep rich soil, and abundant moisture. The plant is about the height of corn, but has a much more .slender stem, and bears at the summit a very large and spread- ing flower cluster (Fig. 267). Its cultivation is usually carried on in large plantations, our greatest sugar-producing State be- ing Louisiana. When the canes (as the stems are called) are mature, they are cut, stripped of their leaves, and crushed. Associated with the production of sugar as by-products are the various sirups or Fig. 267.âSugarn -After Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Coulter, John Merle, 1851-1928. New York, D. Appleton
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