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Sugar-Cane Description and Processing in Early Botany Text
The excerpt details the sugar cane as a tall, multipurpose plant with rapid maturation and the need for yearly replanting. It explains cultivation methods, soil management, and the impressive scale of sugar mills with iron rollers, describing juice composition and the visual majesty of large cane fields. It notes misperceptions about extracting sugar from the cane and emphasizes the craft and experience required to produce sugar.
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