Engineering Mechanics

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...the year round, and moisture easily obtained by irrigation from the mountain streams. Planting and reaping go on without regard to season, and sugar factories can be kept busy during the entire 12 months of the year. When it is stated that an excess of moisture during the growing season of the cane is disastrous because it LOADKD CARTS FKOM THK F1KLI) A WAITING THF.IK TURN AT A CUBAN SUGAR FACTORY. crop has a tremendous advantage over one that depends altogether upon natural conditions of rainfall. Peru, therefore, onlyneeds the required capital to install a greater number of modern sugar factories with up-to-date machinery and equipment and to further develop its irrigation systems to become one of the greatest producers of the finer grades of sugar. Mr. Albes covered in popular style, of course, the planting, growing, and harvest common to nearly all the countries of the Pan-American Union. To enter into the details of its development in each of the twenty-one republics is beyond the scope of this article, hence only a general and a very brief survey of the industiy in the principal countries of production may he given. In Argentina the sugar industry has been of recent development. In 1871 the total production amounted to only 1.000 tons. It is only in the northern part of the Repub fertile and well-watered plains, are especially adapted to its cultivation. A wellequipped experiment station in Tucuman is doing excellent work in promoting the industry. The total production of the country for the 1913-14 season amounted to nearly 2o0, (H)0 tons, and conservative estimates place the 1914-15 crop at about the same ligures. The country's production has hitherto ahout equalled the domestic demand. Recently, however, the United Kingdom has..