. Home geography for primary grades . CUTTING SUGAR CANE. THE MAKING OF SUGAR. Where does our sugar come from? DoesNature prepare it for us, or do we have to workhard and long to get it? The little boy from the south knows somethingabout sugar. He says that it is made from thesugar cane. Another boy who lives in a northern 213 214 HOME GEOGRAPHY. valley says that it is made from sugar beets. Hehas seen the beets growing over hundreds of third boy whose home is among the wooded hillsof the northern states has never seen the sugar has helped the men make sugar from the sap of. LO
. Home geography for primary grades . CUTTING SUGAR CANE. THE MAKING OF SUGAR. Where does our sugar come from? DoesNature prepare it for us, or do we have to workhard and long to get it? The little boy from the south knows somethingabout sugar. He says that it is made from thesugar cane. Another boy who lives in a northern 213 214 HOME GEOGRAPHY. valley says that it is made from sugar beets. Hehas seen the beets growing over hundreds of third boy whose home is among the wooded hillsof the northern states has never seen the sugar has helped the men make sugar from the sap of. LOADING SUGAR CANE ON TRUCKS. the maple tree. He thinks that maple sugar isbetter than any of the other kinds of sugar. Each little boy knew something about sugar,but not all. Much of the sugar which we use is madefrom the juice of the sugar cane. The growingsugar cane looks something like stalks of Indian HOME GEOGRAPHY. 215 corn. If you could bite a young stalk of sugar caneyou would then understand how sweet its juice is. The juice is obtained from the cane by pressingit between heavy rollers. The sweet liquid is thenpurified and evaporated. By this we mean that thewater is driven off until there is left only a dark,thick syrup. The sugar crystallizes from the syrupjust as salt does from water. Put a little salt in adish of water. When the water has nearly dried upcrystals of salt will commence to form around theedge of the basin. After the sugar has crystallized, the syrup thatis left is given another name. It is called sugar is not white at first. It has to gothrough
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