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And Yankees will not continue many years manufacturing the base of sugar, without forcing the secret of sorghum, and finding how to crystallize its syrup into sugar.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “And Yankees will not continue many years manufacturing the base of sugar, without forcing the secret of sorghum, and…”
Editor's note · Context
Reid anticipates that Northern manufacturers will seek to learn how to produce sugar from sorghum syrup.
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