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Report made to the Beet sugar society of Philadelphia, on the culture, in France, of the beet root, and manufacture of sugar therefrom : with miscellaneous remarks on the same, and on the culture of the poppy, and extraction of salad oil from the seed ; for the purpose of introducing and permanently establishing these valuable branches of agriculture and manufacture in the United States
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