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As the beet-sugar industry began to spread from 

 France to Germany and other countries, they com- 

 menced to grow sugar-beet seed, but Germany soon 

 put forth such efforts to produce this primary essen- 



P. Louis LEVEQUE DE VILMORIN 

 First to devise methods for increasing the sugar content of the beet. 



tial to the industry that growers of other countries 

 soon were driven from the markets of the world and 

 Germany secured a practical monopoly of the busi- 

 ness. France, Holland, and Austria still export small 



