The Story of Sugar

ew Hampshire hills behind the Carlton family, together with Van Blake, set out for

e could go through your refinery,

lanced at him

ob?" he asked. "You never were in

we have seen maple-sugar made Van and I thought it would be fun to see the p

, did he?" quer

. I believe, though, it

d a moment. "I suppose it would do no

ar

hurriedly. "The process is an open secret anyway,

s father with a

"It simply will be necessary for me to telephone the superintendent and tell him you are com

sir.

" was Mr. Carlton'

e in perfecting the plan, and the next morning after the party reached New York he informed

selves away in the big limousine which was to whirl them to Long Island where the works were located. All the way out Van was s

hed him

iasm about sugar," said he at last

! Of course I

eem so glu

never was in better

ect Van pointed to a stack of chim

se belong to you

"Dad said we'd see a bunch of tall chimneys

declared, drumming on the wi

ng of anticipation that Bob did, and noticing his sp

hrough here, Van," said he. "What's the matter? You

want

how you s

wh

ould hardly put one foot before the oth

e matter with me. What put

y you y

re fussing about me for. I'm just as anx

enthusiasm was feigned. For a second he paused undecidedly on the pavement before the door

cted, for a clerk rose from his de

t, said I was to bring you to his

nk y

Carlton's son

es

Hennessey himself is going t

the door of a private o

he announced to the boy who opened th

efore a large man with a genial fac

he superintendent. Possibly you may have heard your father spe

e eyes of the big man

he hearty hand-shake. "He depends on you a lot. He says he always f

y flushed wi

her's place as if it were my

e's gone," nodded Bob. "I think it is mighty good of you to bother with my chum and me. Can't you send s

e I am interested in your sugar education; I can't allow the boss'

ng his head deprecatingly. "I'm only trying to learn a little somet

erintendent. "Well, I'll tell you right now you need do no blushing for your father's b

e on Dad," was the

do so wit

and turning Bob in

hould spot their clothing the three set out for the basement of the factory, where the incoming cargoes of sugar were unloaded. Here gr

rise the material that was b

ejaculated Van. "Do you really mean to tell us that

raw sugar comes to us this way. You see, it is about the color of maple or brown sugar, but i

t come from?"

y for the market the new crop from the West Indies comes along. In addition to this we get consignments from the Philippine Islands, the Hawaiian Islands,

be so green about a thing at which Dad has been working for years. I don't know why I ne

it is not until something brings our ignorance before us that we take the pains to focus our attention and learn about them. So do not be ashamed that you d

," exclaimed both

nce; it has broad, flat leaves that sometimes measure as many as three feet in length, and often the stalk itself is twenty feet high. This stalk is

y plant it?

aken. If the soil is not rich and moist replanting is more frequently necessary and in places like Louisiana, where there is annual frost, planting must be done each year. When the cane is ripe it is cut and brought from the field to a central sugar mill, where heavy iron rollers crush from it all the juice. This liqu

picture!" Va

o be boiled until the crystals form in it, after which it is put into whirling machines, called centrifugal machines, that separate the dry sugar from the syrup with which it is mixed. This

efined in the places wher

in our large cities, where the shipping facilities are good not only for receiving sugar in its raw state but for distributing it after

central sugar

much trouble and expense. It also encourages small growers who could not afford to build mills and might in consequence abandon sugar raising. The leaves are all stripped off before the cane is shipped so that nothing but the stalks are sent. As the largest portion of sugar is in the

cle

Hennessey. "Moreover, it does away with a wa

no

have been so scarce that in 1916 a large consignment of Hawaiian sugar was for the first time sent overland across the American continent by train;

such things affectin

upon us all, for there is not one of us who is not indebted to the four corners of the globe for what he eats, wears, and uses. Therefore, you see, world prospe

, Mr. Hennessey?" asked Bob, glancing

ed evasively. "But this I do know: first, last, and all the time I am

ptly he led the way up a winding iron staircase and the boys, s