HISTORY OF SUGAR BEET 



ABOUT 160 years ago, in 1747, sugar was 

 first discovered in fodder beets by the 

 chemist Marggraf, and the question of 

 extracting it was seriously taken up by 

 a few of the leading scientists on the 

 Continent. At the end of the eighteenth 

 century, Achard, one of Marggraf 's pupils, 

 laid a proposal for the erection of a 

 factory before King Frederic William III 

 of Prussia. 



This proposal was not effectively taken 

 up until several years later and after 

 infinite difficulties, and though Germany 

 was the cradle of the beet-sugar industry, 

 it did not succeed there at first, the 

 experiments being quickly superseded 

 by those made in France under the 

 auspices of the Government. 



Up to that time all the sugar consumed 

 in the world was made from cane, cul- 



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