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Show Honor Belongs to German Chemist. It was In 1747that tho German chemist Marggraf (1709-1782) discovered discov-ered tho exlstenco of sugar In beets nnd recommended that thoy bo cultivated culti-vated In ordor tp produce sugar; but almust fifty years olapeod before practical prac-tical results wero obtained therefrom. I if 1790 Dr. Franz Karl Achard, a pupil of Marggraf, having succeeded in extracting ex-tracting sugar from beets in commercial commer-cial quantities nt a cost so as to en-ablo en-ablo ' to competo with cano sugar, tho t.i en ruler of tho world's markets erected tho first beet sugoi factory at his farm, Kunorn, near Stelnaus, Low er Silesia. |