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Date Issued:
1960
Abstract/Description:
The present sugar manufacturing industry in Florida is a development of recent years, beginning in 1923 at Canal Point with the opening of Everglades lands to cultivation through an extensive drainage project, although intermittent attempts to produce sugar in the Everglades on a commercial basis were made as far back as 1885.
Title: Florida's sugar bowl.
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Name(s): Shoemaker, Jack.
PALMM (Project)
Florida Dept. of Agriculture
Type of Resource: text
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: <1960>
Date Issued: 1960
Date Issued: 1960
Publisher: State of Florida, Dept. of Agriculture
Place of Publication: Tallahassee
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 63 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language(s): eng
Abstract/Description: The present sugar manufacturing industry in Florida is a development of recent years, beginning in 1923 at Canal Point with the opening of Everglades lands to cultivation through an extensive drainage project, although intermittent attempts to produce sugar in the Everglades on a commercial basis were made as far back as 1885.
Table of Contents: History of sugar -- Sugarcane in the Everglades -- Sugar in America -- A short look at the sugar house -- United States Sugar Corporation -- Okeelanta Sugar Refinery, Inc. -- Fellsmere Division -- Sugar by-products -- Research and experiments -- Disease and pests -- Florida's sugar prospects -- 1958 mainland sugar program in Florida.
Target Audience: general
Identifier: UF00002877 (iid), 49800286 (oclc), AAA3157 QF, 968572 (digitool), uf:102633 (fedora)
Note(s): revised by Jack Shoemaker.
"R March 1960".
Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : Board of Education, Division of Colleges and Universities, PALMM Project, 2001. Mode of Access: World Wide Web. System Requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically reproduced from Collection in George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida.
Subject(s): Sugarcane -- Florida
Sugar trade -- Florida
Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Florida
Florida -- 12000
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/UF00002877.pdf
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/UF00002877.jpg
Host Institution: UF
Other Format:
(OCoLC)29960596
Is Part of Series: Bulletin (Florida. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 94.