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Show Find Process to Make Sugar From Artichokes Washington. Experts of the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture are studying the results In the extraction of sugar from vegetables heretofore not utilized for that purpose, which they say have evolved a process that may revolutionize revolution-ize the sugar-growing and refining Industry. In-dustry. The new process, discovered In researches re-searches by Dr. R. F. Jackson of the bureau of standards, makes possible, they say, the crystallization of sugar extracted from such vegetables as the artichoke and thus Its production for the first time In a usable and commercial commer-cial form. Lack of a process for crystallizing crys-tallizing sugar drawn from such plants, it was said, has been the one bar to their utilization for this purpose. The sugar derived by this process from the artichoke was said to promise prom-ise the cheapest source for its production. produc-tion. It Is one and one-half times as sweet as the sugar taken from cane and the sugar beet. Its production, it was said, promises to be both simpler and cheaper than cane or beet sugar. |