| Part I Growth, Manufacture and Distribution |
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| Refined Sugar, showing form of crystals | Frontispiece |
| Sugar Cane, showing eyes or buds | To face page 4 |
| Roots of Sugar Cane | 6 |
| Jungle-like Vegetation of Cane Field | 7 |
| Leaf-Hopper | 10 |
| Sugar Cane | 11 |
| Experiment Station | 12 |
| Plantation Scene in Hawaii—light-colored foliage is sugar cane | 13 |
| Steam Plough | 14 |
| Planting Cane | 15 |
| Irrigation Ditch, showing tunnel | 16 |
| Irrigation Ditch | 17 |
| Young Sugar Cane | 18 |
| Ripe Sugar Cane, showing tassels | 19 |
| Cutting Cane | 20 |
| Loading Cane | 21 |
| Train-Load of Cane ready for the mill | 22 |
| A Modern Mill | 23 |
| Cane Carrier and Mechanical Unloader | 24 |
| Another Type of Cane Unloader | 25 |
| Twelve-Roller Mill | 26 |
| Modern Crushing Plant; two fifteen-roller mills and crushers, capacity 105 tons per hour | 27 |
| Delivering Bagasse to Fire-Room | 28 |
| General Interior View of Modern Raw-Sugar Mill | 29 |
| Filter Presses | 30 |
| Set of Quadruple Evaporators | 31 |
| Vacuum Pans | 32 |
| Centrifugal Machines | 33 |
| Filling, Weighing and Sewing Sacks | 34 |
| Train-Load of Raw Sugar leaving mill | 35 |
| Steamer Loading Sugar Alongside of Dock | 38 |
| Loading Sugar at an Outport in Hawaii | 39 |
| Polariscope (in body of text) | Page 40 |
| A Modern Refinery, showing water and rail transportation facilities | To face page 46 |
| Plan Elevation of a Modern Refinery | 47 |
| Steamer Discharging Raw Sugar at Refinery Dock | 48 |
| Sugar Stored in Warehouse—25,000 tons shown in this picture | 49 |
| Cut-in Station, showing sugar first entering the refining process | 50 |
| Centrifugal Machine, motor driven | 51 |
| Bag Filters, showing bags in place | 56 |
| Filter Presses | 57 |
| Making New Bags and Lining the Washed Bags | 58 |
| Printing the Empty Raw-Sugar Bags | 59 |
| Char Filters | 60 |
| Char Filters, showing outlet pipes | 61 |
| Top of Char Filters, showing pipe connections | 62 |
| Exterior View of Char Drier | 63 |
| Interior Arrangement of Char Drier | 64 |
| Exterior View of Char Kilns, showing oil-burning apparatus | 65 |
| A Refinery Vacuum Pan and Pump | 66 |
| Arrangement of Steam Coils in a Vacuum Pan | 67 |
| Refinery Centrifugal Machines | 68 |
| Exterior View of Sweater | 69 |
| Front View of Sweater, showing steam coils for heating the air | 70 |
| Interior View of Sweater | 71 |
| Separator, closed, ready for operation | 72 |
| Separators, one of which is open, showing three screens for separating the sugar grains | 73 |
| Filling, Weighing and Sewing 100-pound Sacks | 74 |
| Filling, Weighing and Sewing 25-pound Sacks | 75 |
| Filling Barrels | 76 |
| Method of Handling Barrels | 77 |
| Cube Sugar Machine | 78 |
| Carton Machine | 79 |
| Filling, Weighing and Sewing 2-pound, 5-pound and 10-pound Bags | 80 |
| Laboratory | 86 |
| Oil-Burning Boiler Plant | 87 |
| Inland-Waterway Steamer Loading Sugar at Refinery Dock | 92 |
| Car-Float Arriving at Refinery Dock | 93 |
| Sugar Beet[1] | 100 |
| Another Type of Sugar Beet | 101 |
| Ploughing with Caterpillar Engine | 102 |
| Planting Beet Seed | 103 |
| Thinning | 104 |
| Cultivating | 105 |
| Field of Ripe Beets | 106 |
| Topping Beets | 107 |
| Hauling Beets | 108 |
| Delivering Beets to the Factory by Wagon | 109 |
| Delivering Beets to the Factory by Train | 110 |
| General Interior View of Beet-Sugar Factory, showing filter presses in foreground; pans and evaporators in rear | 111 |
| Diffusion Battery, showing diffusion cells in circular arrangement | 112 |
| Diffusion Battery, showing diffusion cells in straight lines | 113 |
| Weighing, Filling and Sewing Bags in a Beet Factory | 114 |
| Cattle Feeding on Beet Pulp | 115 |
| The First Successful Beet-Sugar Factory in America—Alvarado, California | 116 |
| Part II History of the Industry |
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| A Modern Beet-Sugar Factory | 117 |
| Christopher Columbus | 124 |
| Olivier de Serres | 128 |
| Andreas Marggraf | 129 |
| Franz Carl Achard | 130 |
| First Beet-Sugar Factory in the World—Built at Cunern, Silesia, 1802 | 131 |
| Napoleon I | 132 |
| Building in Salt Lake City, Utah, in which the First Beet-Sugar Machinery Brought to the West was Installed | 150 |
| E. H. Dyer, the Father of Beet Sugar in America | 151 |
| Hauling Cane in the Fields, Louisiana | 178 |
| Hauling Cane in the Fields, Louisiana | 179 |
| Sugar Plantation Scene in Porto Rico[2] | 182 |
| Sugar-Shipping Port, Porto Rico | 183 |
| Ploughing Cane Field with Steam Plough, Porto Rico | 184 |
| Unloading Sugar Cane at a Mill, Porto Rico | 185 |
| Ploughing Field Before Planting Cane, Philippines | 190 |
| Ploughing at La Carlota, Occidental Negros, Philippines | 191 |
| Hauling Cane, Philippines | 192 |
| Carabao Mill, Philippines | 193 |
| Old-Style Sugar Mill, Philippines, showing poor crushing | 194 |
| Tinguian Cane Crusher, Lingayen, Philippines | 195 |
| Old Water-Driven Mill, Island of Negros, Philippines | 196 |
| Mill Driven by Water Power, Occidental Negros, Philippines | 197 |
| Native Sugar Factory, Pampanga Province, Philippines | 198 |
| Interior of Camarin, Philippines | 199 |
| Luzon Sugar Refinery, Malabon, Rizal, Philippines | 200 |
| Loading Sugar on Lorchas, Philippines | 201 |
| Central Factory, General View, Cuba[3] | 202 |
| Cuban Central, General View | 203 |
| Cane Field, Cuba | 204 |
| Loading Cane on Ox-Carts, Cuba | 205 |
| Train-Load of Sugar Cane, Cuba | 208 |
| Self-Dumping Cane Car, Cuba | 209 |
| Morelands Sugar Mill, Vere, Jamaica. Photo by H. H. Cousins | 216 |
| The Fleet, Morelands, Vere, Jamaica. Photo by H. H. Cousins | 217 |
| Leveling a Cane Field, Peru | 250 |
| Leveling Ground by Steam, Peru | 251 |
| Planting Cane, Peru | 252 |
| Portable Branch Line of Field Railway and Cane Cutters, Peru | 253 |
| Hauling Cane-Laden Cars with Ox-Team, Peru | 254 |
| Train-Load of Cane En Route to the Factory, Peru | 255 |
| Sugar Plantation between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil | 260 |
| Train-Load of Cane En Route to the Ingenio La Mendieta, Argentina | 270 |
| Unloading a Car of Cane, Tucumán, Argentina | 271 |
| Battery of Boilers, Ingenio, La Trinidad, Tucumán, Argentina | 272 |
| Home of Superintendent of a Sugar Plantation, Tucumán, Argentina | 273 |
| Ingenio Nueva Baviera, Tucumán, Argentina | 274 |
| Ingenio Nueva Baviera, Tucumán, Argentina | 275 |
| Kohekirin Mill, Formosa | 280 |
| Sugar Cane Affected by the Sereh, Java | 296 |
| Seedling Canes, Java | 297 |
| Cutting Cane, Maroochy River, South Queensland | 302 |
| Carting Cane to Mill, Ingham District, North Queensland | 303 |
| Isis Central Mill, Childers, South Queensland | 304 |
| Cane Unloader, Mulgrave Central Sugar Mill, Cairns District, North Queensland | 305 |
| Sugar Mill, Nahan Factory, India | 330 |
| Centrifugal Worked by Hand, India | 331 |
| Wooden Mill from Gorakhpur, India (in body of text) | Page 332 |
| Boiling by Old Method, India | To face page 332 |
| Furnace and Pans for Making Rab, India | 333 |
| Stone Mill, Agra, India (in body of text) | Page 333 |
| Small Locomotive Used to Draw Cane-Cars, 2-foot Gauge, India | To face page 334 |
| Loading Cane Carrier, Marhourah Factory, India | 335 |
| Water-Driven Centrifugals, Marhourah Factory, India | 336 |
| Champaran Sugar Company, Ltd., Barrah Chakia, Champaran, India | 337 |