Cuban Cane Sugar: A Sketch of the Industry, From Soil to Sack, Together With a Survey of the Circumstances Which Combine to Make Cuba the Sugar Bowl of the World

Excerpt from Cuban Cane Sugar: A Sketch of the Industry, From Soil to Sack, Together With a Survey of the Circumstances Which Combine to Make Cuba the Sugar Bowl of the WorldTwenty years later, in 1900, we were eating more than six pounds a week.Today every American family con sumes between eight and nine pounds of sugar from Saturday till Satur day.Not the sugar in fruits, or the sugars which we digest from the potatoes or beans we eat, or other natural sugars and sweets, but of commercial, store-bought, refined sugar we eat more than eight pounds.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.