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Read Ebook: The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist Manufacturer Merchant and Consumer on the Cu by Simmonds P L Peter Lund
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Consumption per head in England; not properly within the reach of the poorer classes.
China could furnish any quantity.
Mr. Travers on the tea duties.
Brick tea of Thibet.
Tea annually imported into the United States; proportion of green to black.
Range of the plant.
Countries in which its culture has been attempted.
Its progress in America.
The Assam Company and its plantations.
Extension of tea culture by the East India Co.
Mr. Fortune's travels in the tea districts of China.
Instructions and details as to soil, management and manufacture, by Dr. Jameson and Mr. Fortune.
Dr. Campbell's notes.
Mr. A. Macfarlane's Report.
The East India tea plantations in the North-West Provinces.
Experimental cultivation of the tea plant in Brazil; M. Geullemin's report thereon.
Paraguay Tea: Mr. Robertson's description of the collection and manufacture.
Plants from which it is usually obtained.
The sugar cane; its range of cultivation.
Production in our colonies.
Consumption in the last ten years.
Improvements in sugar machinery and manufacture.
Quantity of cane sugar annually produced and sent into the markets.
Local consumption in India.
Present European supply; demand according to the consumption in England.
Estimated annual production throughout the world.
Consumption in the principal European countries.
Average annual consumption in the United Kingdom.
Production of sugar in the United States.
Production in Cuba.
Production in the British West Indies.
Production in Mauritius.
Statistics of imports from the Mauritius.
Production in the British East Indies.
Production in Java.
Production in the Philippines.
Chemical distinction between cane and grape sugar. Varieties of the sugar cane cultivated.
Possibility of raising the cane from seed.
Analysis of the cane, and of a sugar soil.
Chemical examination of cane juice.
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.
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