Do you think people who live in hot countries need the same kind of clothing as those who live in cold countries?
What kind of clothing should you think was needed in cold countries? Would such clothes be comfortable in hot countries?
| SUGAR-CANE IS A TALL PLANT. |
There is a plant that yields no food, drink, or clothing, yet it is used in nearly every country in the world. Can you tell its name?
Every one has seen it growing. It is tobacco.
Do you think the tobacco plant is as useful as the cotton and flax plants?
Everybody eats sugar. Did you ever see a table set for supper without a sugar bowl?
The sugar in common use in this country is made chiefly from sugar-cane. The sugar-cane is a tall plant which looks much like Indian corn when growing. It is called the sugar-cane because it is filled with the sweet juice that is made into the sugar.
When the stalks are cut they are taken to a sugar mill. Here they pass between great rollers which press out the juice. The liquid is then boiled until it turns to sugar.
Much sugar is made from the sap of the sugar-maple tree. In the early spring the sap begins to rise. A hole is bored in the tree and a tube inserted, through which the sap passes to a bucket or other vessel placed to receive it. The sap is boiled in large kettles and becomes syrup. More boiling turns the syrup into sugar.