The Sugar Beet - How Sweet It Is

Year Published: 1983

Creator: Bortnick Film Productions

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Shows the special machines crawling over fields, planting, spraying, weeding and harvesting sugar beets. Demonstrates how inside the plant, giant washing wheels clean and carry the beets to be sliced, diced and boiled. Concludes with huge centrifuges whirling the juice from the syrup, leaving fine white crystals ready for drying, sifting and packaging.


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