Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1916 — World’s Only Sugar School. [ARTICLE]

World’s Only Sugar School.

Louisiana claims the <)ply school in the world devoted exclusively to the study of sugar. It is located at Baton Rouge and includes a five-year course under the instruction of a faculty numbering 25. The z course embraces every detail of the refinihg processes of sugar, the methods of cultivating it in the fiqkf, the grading of it for trade and the commercial methods of handling it. Students are in attendance from the United States, Cuba, Porto Rico, the Canary islands and several other parts of the world. The school includes the largest library in the world devoted to sugar. A part of the technical work is done in connection with the Louisiana State Agricultural college.