From Brown Bros.
Sugar cane is cut and shipped to a sugar mill. Here the cane is crushed by machinery, which we see in^this picture, and is then p»aeecl between rollers which squeeze out the juice The juice is first treated with milk of lime, to remove impurities which settle to the bottom of the tank, and the juice is then heated and evaporated, and raw or unrefined sugar is produced.
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Raw sugar is here dumped through the grating into an elevator which carries it to the top of the building, where the work of refining sugar begins.
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[ Here the raw sugar is fLst mixed with water and is then melted and passes through the filter pressec
which we see in thi? picture. Here the sugar liquor is filtered to remove particles of dirt or otner matter.
