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9 With all of this information at his command the intelligent animal husbandman ran utilize his store of feeding st.nil's, and if necessary, by purchasing othei pi pan the proper rations for insuring the I and most economical results. Chemistry has aided agriculture in many other ways. The establishment of new industries like the manufacture of glucose, which annually insures a market for the surplus production of agricultural crops, may be mentioned. Of much greater importance to agriculture has been the establishment of the beet-sugar industry, since it opened a field for the production of a new agricultural crop on an immense scale. From an almost hopeless beginning this industry has by the aid of science gradually grown into one of the leading industries of the world. When the German chemist, Margraf, examined the garden beet it was found to contain only about four or five per cent. of cane sugar. By careful select ion and an is of mother beets, 6 lecting only those for & d which revealed the highest content of sugar, the quality of this sugarpr luring plant was gradually improved. When the writer was a student Professor Wagner, the celebrated technolog t of Germany, found, upon analysis, individual boots with a sii ir content of twelve per cent, Ho at that time expressed the hope that by mtimicd effort in the improvement o( the beet this • eeption might prove to be llif) rule. The results today far rxeivd hii prestations. Individual boots have I n grown with n MOMI- content o( twenty pi p ern! . and il i.. sal • !o that in I ho