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agricultui-al development. The chief of these industries are brewing, 

 distilling, sugar beet, potato drying, and potato starch industries. 



Besides establishing a good local market for agricultural produce, 

 these industries support a considerable rural population which provides 

 the agriculturist with labour at busy seasons. 



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PHYSICAL SELtCTION 



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: PHYSICAL AND ; PHYSICALCHEMICAU AND 

 CHEMICAL StL"" '• PHYSIOLOGICAL SELECTION 



GRAPH Showing improvements effected in sugar content of beets. 



Organized Co-operation and Credit. 



In no other department of German agriculture has the feeling of 

 fellowship among the German farmers shown itself more than in the 

 astonishing developments of the system of co-operation. It is diffi- 

 cult to say which has done more for German agriculture during the 

 past ten years — the technical advances in agricultural methods, or the 

 development of the co-operative system. It is probably correct to say 

 that on large farms the improvements have been due to better methods 



