Identifier: somethingaboutsu00rolp (find matches)
Title: Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rolph, George M. (George Morrison), b. 1873
Subjects: Sugar
Publisher: San Francisco : J. J. Newbegin
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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REFINING OF RAW SUGAR 51 ing chain conveyor that passes through the upper part of theboiler house, where the waste heat thoroughly dries them. Inreturning, the conveyor passes through the bag room and, bymeans of an automatic device, the bags are dropped alongsidethe printing presses. Here the name of the refinery, the kind ofsugar and the net weight they are to contain are printed uponthem. These burlap bags are then lined with a white cottonbag, after which they are made into bundles and sent to thepacking room to be filled with sugar. It will be seen, therefore,that the bags from Hawaii in which the raw sugar is receivedare put to good use. This, however, does not apply to those thatcome from Cuba or Java; they are too large to serve as con-tainers for the refined product, and after being washed anddried are sold for what they will bring. The white cotton bags are made at the refinery, and a plantturning out one thousand tons of sugar each twenty-four hourswill use twenty-five thou

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