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Re: candy in collections/coke with sugar



"Dr. Carole Nowicke, Applied Health Science" wrote:

> Michigan grows a lot of sugar beets and sugar there is certainly cheaper
> than in Indiana.  Sugar beet pulp is processed into livestock feed.  I
> don't think there's use for cane after the juice is extracted.

Bagasse, the crushed cane left by the process, is used as a fuel.  It can be used
to fire the boilers in the sugar mill, and on the plantations which had railroads,
it could be used as a locomotive fuel.

Charlie  AKA "the Would-be-Maquinista"
Charles V. Mutschler, Ph.D.
University Archivist and Adjunct Professor of History
Eastern Washington University
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