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gave the lead to others. It was not, 

 however, until well into the forties that 

 they succeeded in bringing the beet- 

 sugar manufacture to the front as a 

 practical industry. 



Since that time the cultivation of sugar 

 beet has increased by leaps and bounds 

 in most of the European countries, 

 chiefly Austria, Belgium, Denmark, 

 France, Germany, Holland, Russia, Spain 

 and Sweden, where the total acreage 

 under beet cultivation is approximately 

 four million acres. 



In the U.S.A. the beet-sugar manu- 

 facture was taken up much later, and 

 not until 1901 was any special encour- 

 agement given to this manufacture. 

 There were then sixty-three factories in 

 that country, producing over 400,000 tons 

 of refined sugar, but since that time the 

 increase in beet cultivation has been 

 so great that by 1910 forty new factories 

 were erected to cope with it. 



It will be seen from the foregoing that 

 a very wide knowledge of sugar beet 



