Improvements in sugar machinery and manufacture. Quantity of cane sugar annually produced and sent into the markets. Local consumption in India. Present European supply; demand according to the consumption in England. Estimated annual production throughout the world. Consumption in the principal European countries. Average annual consumption in the United Kingdom. Comparative amount of beet-root and cane sugar produced in the last four years. _Gazette_ prices of sugar in the last ten years. Production of sugar in the United States. Production in Cuba. Production in the British West Indies. Production in Mauritius. Statistics of imports from the Mauritius. Production in the British East Indies. Production in Java. Production in the Philippines. Chemical distinction between cane and grape sugar. Varieties of the sugar cane cultivated. Possibility of raising the cane from seed. Analysis of the cane, and of a sugar soil. Chemical examination of cane juice. Vacuum pans. Boiling and tempering. Composition of cane juice. Ramos's prepared plantain juice. Professor Fownes on the manufacture of sugar. Expression of cane juice. Construction of the sugar mill. Quantity of juice obtained by each kind of mill. Position of rollers. Mode of culture and varieties in the East Indies. Soils considered best adapted for its luxuriant growth. Manures. Sets and planting. Aftergrowth. Harvesting. Injuries, from seasons, storms, insects, &c. Mode of cultivation in the Brazils; in Natal; expenses. Comparison between the cost of production in Mauritius and Natal. Comparative cost in free and slave countries. Beet-root sugar: variety cultivated; mode of expression and manufacture; yield of sugar; estimated profit; extensive production in France; production in the German States. Statistics of the Prussian Provinces of Saxony; Russia, Belgium and Austria. A Visitor's account of the French manufactories. Mr. Colman's opinion. Proportion of sugar in the beet. Maple Sugar: description of the tree; its production limited to America; extent of the manufacture in Canada and the United States; processes employed; statistics of production. Maize Sugar. SECTION II.--THE GRAIN CROPS, EDIBLE ROOTS AND FARINACEOUS PLANTS, FORMING THE BREADSTUFFS OF COMMERCE Statistics of _Wheat Culture_. Exports of flour from the United States. Adaptation of the soil and climate of the United States to the culture of the cereals. Export of sophisticated (damaged) flour. Kiln drying of bread stuffs and exclusion of air. Value of the "whole meal" of wheat as compared with that of the fine flour. Nutritious properties of various articles of food.