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Show '" WORLD OWES HIM MUCH. Immensely Valuable Discoveries Made by Frenchman. Tho great sugar ueet Industry of tho world owes Its very oxlstenco to a discovery of Vilmorln. Tho original sugar beet grown In Franco did not contain enough sugar for commerce, states a writer In Success. The amount ol sugar could bo easily determined in tho beet, but in making tho test tho reproductive qualities of tho plant vero always destroyed. Vilmorln learned how to extract tho pulp without with-out destroying tho plant nnd by selection se-lection and cross-breeding ho grow n plant upon which tho great industry '.i now founded. Wo owo nlso to Vilmorln Vil-morln tho present carrot, a vegetable which was nothing moro than a thin, dry, hard, woody root, unfit for tho stomnch of a sheep or a cow. Year after year ho sowed In a bed and carefully care-fully examined every root. By selecting select-ing seed from tho best plants for tho new sowing ho produced a carrot vlth moro flesh and less wood. The horseradish, tho turnip, and, Indeed, In-deed, tho potato vine, wero once plants with thin, dry, woody roots, without tho least suggestion that thoy vould over dovelop Into food for man cr beast. |