arison between the cost of production in Mauritius
and Natal.
Comparative cost in free and slave countries.
Beet-root sugar: variety cultivated; mode of expression
and manufacture; yield of sugar; estimated profit;
extensive production in France; production in the
German States.
Statistics of the Prussian Provinces of Saxony; Russia,
Belgium and Austria.
A Visitor's account of the French manufactories.
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.
Rotation of crops in connexion with wheat culture.
Production and consumption of the United Kingdom.
Statistics of other countries.
Barley, Oats, Rye, Buckwheat, Maize: Indian corn and
meal imported.
Crop and exports of United States.
System of culture.
Rice: Statistics of production and culture in Carolina.
The Bhull rice lands of Lower Scinde.
Rice in Kashmir; exports from Arracan.
Millet.
Broom Corn.
Chenopodium Quinoa.
Fundi or Fundungi.
Pulse.
The Sago Palms.
Manufacture and extent of the trade in Singapore.
The bread-fruit tree.
Kafir bread.
The PLANTAIN and BANANA; various products of these
palms.
STARCH-PRODUCING PLANTS investigated.
Characters of starch from different plants.
Tenacity and clearness of jellies; per centage of
starch yielded, and produce of plant per acre; their
meal as articles of export.
Indian Corn starch.
Rice starch.
ARROWROOT: East and West India, culture and statistics
of.
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