After the cutters went on strike in 1887, the state militia and white vigilantes retaliated by killing about 60 suspected ...

Nowadays sugar mostly comes from sugar beet, a root vegetable like a swede. However when this sugar cutter was in use sugar would have come from sugar cane, grown in the West Indies.

Knockroe Sugar Mill was erected by Alexander Christie Walker in 1893, the third mill to be established in the Isis in the ...

While the true extent of damage won't be known for a few weeks, promising signs point to a healthy sugar cane harvest season.

Before the sugar cane can be crushed in the mill, the canes have to be deprived of their leaves, and this is now done by hand. The invention we are about to describe is intended to supersede the ...

Molasses has an intriguing history in the South, tied to the sugar industry and rum production. It's essentially a byproduct of refining sugar, made when people boil sugarcane juice to extract the ...

We now buy sugar granulated, or formed into cubes, ready for use. In Victorian times it was sold in much bigger lumps, or as a large 'cone', and the housewife or maid would have to cut it up ...