The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,257 pages of information about The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,257 pages of information about The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom.

    Vacuum pans.

    Boiling and tempering.

    Composition of cane juice.

    Ramos’s prepared plantain juice.

    Professor Fownes on the manufacture of sugar. 
    Expression of cane juice.

    Construction of the sugar mill.

    Quantity of juice obtained by each kind of mill.

    Position of rollers.

    Mode of culture and varieties in the East Indies.

    Soils considered best adapted for its luxuriant growth.

    Manures.

    Sets and planting.

    Aftergrowth.

    Harvesting.

    Injuries, from seasons, storms, insects, &c.

    Mode of cultivation in the Brazils; in Natal; expenses.

    Comparison between the cost of production in Mauritius
    and Natal.

    Comparative cost in free and slave countries.

Beet-root sugar:  variety cultivated; mode of expression and manufacture; yield of sugar; estimated profit; extensive production in France; production in the German States.

    Statistics of the Prussian Provinces of Saxony; Russia,
    Belgium and Austria.

    A Visitor’s account of the French manufactories.

    Mr. Colman’s opinion.

    Proportion of sugar in the beet.

Maple Sugar:  description of the tree; its production limited to America; extent of the manufacture in Canada and the United States; processes employed; statistics of production.

    Maize Sugar.

SECTION II.—­THE GRAIN CROPS, EDIBLE ROOTS AND FARINACEOUS PLANTS, FORMING THE BREADSTUFFS OF COMMERCE

  Statistics of Wheat Culture.

    Exports of flour from the United States.

    Adaptation of the soil and climate of the United States
    to the culture of the cereals.

Export of sophisticated (damaged) flour.  Kiln drying of bread stuffs and exclusion of air.  Value of the “whole meal” of wheat as compared with that of the fine flour.  Nutritious properties of various articles of food.

    Composition of wheat and wheat-flour, and the modes of
    determining their nutritive value.

    Rotation of crops in connexion with wheat culture.

    Production and consumption of the United Kingdom.

    Statistics of other countries.

    Barley, Oats, Rye, Buckwheat, Maize:  Indian corn and
    meal imported.

    Crop and exports of United States.

    System of culture.

    Rice:  Statistics of production and culture in Carolina.

    The Bhull rice lands of Lower Scinde.

    Rice in Kashmir; exports from Arracan.

    Millet.

    Broom Corn.

    Chenopodium Quinoa.

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