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America in Polynesia: I. Where Sugar Is King
Colum, Padraic | February 6, 1924 issue

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All the islands except Molokai which is lacking in water have great sugar plantations, Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Hawaii. But it is on the island of Hawaii that the production of sugar is at its simplest; there the abundance of water permits of direct transportation from the field to the factory, and furnishes power besides for the running of the factory. On the other islands one sees the brown stalks of burned and cut cane being drawn an railway trucks through the living green of the plantation. One follows the juice as it is drawn to the compartments above, here are great inclosed boilers with glass retorts on the outside that permit us to see the dark-brown juice as it becomes more and more purified.

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SUGAR trade; SUGARCANE industry; SUGAR plants; PLANTATIONS; HAWAII Island (Hawaii); HAWAII; UNITED States
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