Directions: Read the story and type the sequence of how
Steen's Syrup is made in the flow chart.
In
this story, you will learn about the journey of one
Louisiana
product
called “Steen’s Syrup.” This
product
is
produced
in Abbeville, Louisiana is almost 100 years old.
Each batch starts with one popular Louisiana
agriculture crop
called
sugar cane.
Although some things have changed, one thing hasn’t. Since
the plantation days,
sugar cane crops
are still planted the same way. It is hand laid into the
soil. The seed cane is covered and allowed to grow. Fifteen
months later. the
crop
will be
harvested.
Today,
mechanized equipment
cut sugar cane, strips it of its leaves and loads it on
to
hydraulic dump carts.
Then it will be
processed
at the C. S. Steen Syrup Mill.
Once the syrup is
packaged,
the
producers
of this
product
then
ship
it to
stores
to be
sold.
It is then
bought
or
purchased
by
consumers
and brought home.
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