. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . OUvur cL c^Mrrcjy lwiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii)itiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiil)liilliiiillililliiiiilliiiiiiiii[]iii[iiiiNi^^ l,ltfi|!lli;i||||im[|li)lllll|llll]l|lil]:!][||||||lll]llll)INllIllll]iNillll|ffl. BEET SUGAR IN EUROPE I29 southern Europe and northern Africa in olden times. Accordingto Professor Griffin/ Herodotus mentions the sugar beet as oneof the plants that served to nourish the builders of the von Lippmann cites the same instance and also quotes Voltzas authority for the statement that th
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . OUvur cL c^Mrrcjy lwiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii)itiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiil)liilliiiillililliiiiilliiiiiiiii[]iii[iiiiNi^^ l,ltfi|!lli;i||||im[|li)lllll|llll]l|lil]:!][||||||lll]llll)INllIllll]iNillll|ffl. BEET SUGAR IN EUROPE I29 southern Europe and northern Africa in olden times. Accordingto Professor Griffin/ Herodotus mentions the sugar beet as oneof the plants that served to nourish the builders of the von Lippmann cites the same instance and also quotes Voltzas authority for the statement that the Romans first broughtthe beet into Gaul. When the beet was originally grown in southern latitudes itwas an annual, but when it was taken north it became a bien-nial, storing sugar the first year and not developing its seeduntil the second. Jules Helot, an eminent French authority, in his HistoireCentennale du Sucre de Betterave, says: A great French agronomist, called the father of agriculture,Olivier de Serres (1539-1619), was able to find out that thebeet-root contained sugar, long before Marggraf set about toextract sugar from this root. Olivier de Serres wrote: Thebeet-root, when being boiled, yields a juice similar to syrup ofsugar, which is beautiful to look at on accou
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