. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . BEET SUGAR IN EUROPE 131 never abandoned. The effect of the closing down of these twobeet factories was to divert the attention of scientists to makingsugar from grapes. Proust and Parmentier, both chemists ofnote, demonstrated that it could be obtained from this sourceand the French government issued instructions for the prepar-ation of sugar and syrup from the vine. Parmentier publisheda bulletin advising against the attempt to make beet sugar inFrance as the soil of the country would not produce beet-rootscontainin
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . BEET SUGAR IN EUROPE 131 never abandoned. The effect of the closing down of these twobeet factories was to divert the attention of scientists to makingsugar from grapes. Proust and Parmentier, both chemists ofnote, demonstrated that it could be obtained from this sourceand the French government issued instructions for the prepar-ation of sugar and syrup from the vine. Parmentier publisheda bulletin advising against the attempt to make beet sugar inFrance as the soil of the country would not produce beet-rootscontaining sugar. In 1810 Napoleon ordered an appropriation of200,000 francs to be divided as a premium among the factoriesrecovering the highest percentage of sugar from grapes. Mean-while the friends of the beet movement had not been idle, andearly in March, 1811, the Society for the Encouragement ofNational Industry submitted to the emperor a report of whathad been accomplished in the manipulation of beets, togetherwith samples of the sugar obtained, and on the 25th of thatmont
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