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5  J.  Hart:  Pharm.  Jour.  Trans.,  1884,  p.  738. 
6  Adrian:  Jour,  de  Pharm.,  1888,  p.  98,  through  Amer.  Drug.,  1889,  p. 
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T  G.  M.  Beringer  :  Amer.  Jour.  Pharm.,  1889,  607. 
8 F.  Ranwez  :  Pharm.  Zeit.,  1896,  p.  401. 
9  Barclay:  Pharm.  Jour.  Trans.,  1894,  p.  692. 
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12  J.  Miiller  :  Archiv  der  Pharmacie,  1844,  XL.,  p.  173. 
13  Herz  and  Hanausek  :  Pharm.  Zeit.,  1893,  p.  40. 
14  Wm.  Kirby  :  Yearbook  oj  Pharm,,  1890,  p.  467. 
10  F.  F.  Riches  and  J.  Dunning:  Pharm.  Jour.  Trans.,  1891,  p.  611. 
16  G.  Posetto  :  Zeitschr.  J.  Nahrungsm.,  1891,  p.  45. 
17Heim  :  Pharm.  Jour.  Trans.,  1896,  p.  86,  from  Nouv.  Rem.,  XII,  217. 
lsCsesar  and  Loretz  :  Apoth.  Zeit.,  1891,  p.  509. 
19Chas.  A.  Heinitsh  :  Amer.  Jour.  Pharm.,  1867.  P-  38. 
20  E.  M.  Holmes  :  Pharm.  Jour.  Trans.,  1889,  p.  666. 
21  Collardot  :  L' Union  Pharm.,  1891,  p.  294,  through  Pharm.  Jour.  Trans., 
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22  Cazeneuve  and  Linoissier  :  Jour.  Pharm.  Chim.,  1886,  p.  413. 
23 A.  Alessi:  Setmi,  1894,  through  Chem.  Repert.,  XVIII,  132. 
24  Cesar  Chicote  :  Jour.  Pharm.  Chim.,  1896,  p.  116. 
25 Bremer  :  Siiddeutsche  Apoth.  Zeit.,  1897,  p.  31. 
26  W.  Brandes  :  Pharm.  Zeit.,  1S79,  P-  5°6>  through  Amer.  Jour.  Pharm., 
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27  Wiederstadt  :  Archiv  der  Pharm.,  1887,  p.  73. 
2-J.  Herz:  Archiv  der  Pharm.,  1886,  p.  713. 
29  J.  Biel :  Amer  Jour.  Pharm.,  1883,  p.  177. 
311  Amer.  Jour.  Pharm.,  i  91,  p.  567. 
31  R.  H.  True  :  Pharm.  Rev.,  1S9S,  p.  25S. 
Beetroot  Cultivation  in  the  United  States. — The  United  States  Department  of 
Agriculture  has  - recently  issued  a  report,  from  which  it  appears  that  the  pro- 
duction of  sugar,  which  only  amounted  to  800  tons  in  1S86,  has  steadily  in- 
creased since  that  period,  and  exceeded  40,000  tons  in  1896.  There  are  eight 
factories  in  the  country,  which  are  well  supplied  with  all  the  necessary  plant, 
and  it  is  owing  to  the  successive  and  rapid  establishment  of  these  factories  that 
the  national  production  rose  from  2,Soo  tons  in  1890,  to  20,453  tons  ^n  IS93»  an^ 
that  it  shows  since  1894  an  annual  progression  of  10,000  tons.  If  a  comparison 
be  drawn  between  the  production  of  sugar  and  the  consumption  during  the  last 
ten  years,  a  still  more  marked  advance  is  evident.  The  consumption,  which 
was  1,355,809  tons  in  i8S6,  gradually  increased  until  it  amounted  to  1,960,086 
tons  in  1896,  an  increase  of  ab  out  50  per  cent.,  while  the  population  has  only  in- 
creased by  20  per  cent,  at  the  most  during  the  same  period. — Board  of  Trade 
Journal,  March,  1S98. 
