Something About Sugar

Something About Sugar covers its history, growth, manufacture and distribution, by George M. Rolph. The foreword says the purpose of the book is to tell in simple language Something About Sugar, giving a brief history of the commodity and its production in different parts of the world. The title page carries the line Sugar is nothing more nor less than concentrated sunshine.

The text says that probably no other crop exhausts the soil so rapidly as beets, and that if they are planted for many years in succession, they deteriorate year by year. A section headed Thinning says that as soon as the beets are up and the rows clearly defined, thinning becomes necessary, and that this is one of the most important features of beet culture and is a tedious and expensive operation. The text says the Essequibo has its source in the Acari mountains near the equator at 850 feet above the sea, and flows north about 600 miles, reaching the Atlantic by an estuary 15 miles wide.