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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 by P. L. Simmonds
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Mr. Colman's opinion.

Proportion of sugar in the beet.

Maple Sugar: description of the tree; its production
limited to America; extent of the manufacture in Canada
and the United States; processes employed; statistics
of production.

Maize Sugar.

SECTION II.--THE GRAIN CROPS, EDIBLE ROOTS AND FARINACEOUS
PLANTS, FORMING THE BREADSTUFFS OF COMMERCE

Statistics of _Wheat Culture_.

Exports of flour from the United States.

Adaptation of the soil and climate of the United States
to the culture of the cereals.

Export of sophisticated (damaged) flour. Kiln drying of
bread stuffs and exclusion of air. Value of the "whole
meal" of wheat as compared with that of the fine flour.
Nutritious properties of various articles of food.

Composition of wheat and wheat-flour, and the modes of
determining their nutritive value.