INTRODUCTION XV 



sively for factory purposes, though some of the other 

 shapes still are used for stock beets. 



In bringing the sugar beet to its present degree of 

 perfection, the study has been the quicksand in which 

 have been buried more promising hopes and theories 

 than have gone down with scores of other plant studies. 

 But in working out every known theory concerning 

 each characteristic of this pliable plant, the chaff has 

 been separated from the wheat and the sugar beet has 

 become one of the valuable crops of the world. 



