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THE GROWTH OF BEET-EOOT AND MANUFACTURE 

 OF SUGAR. 



By James Barnard. 



Acting upon the desire expressed by the Royal Society, on 

 the occasion of my reading a short paper on the manufacture 

 of beet-root sugar, I have been in communication with a gen- 

 tleman in New South Wales with a view to procure further 

 information, and have now the honour to submit the results. 



Accordingly, I have the pleasure to place at the disposal of 

 the Royal Society a small bag of the seed of the Sugar Beet, 

 of the variety known as the White Silesian, and considered to 

 be the best, which I have procured from Sydney ; and although 

 the quantity is small, being only enough to sow an acre and 

 a-half of land, it may prove sufficient for the purpose of ex- 

 periment. Distribution of this seed should, I suggest, be 

 made, as far as it goes, to such persons as take an interest in 

 the subject, and who would engage to sow a patch of ground 

 and register the results. 



Very valuable information is contained in a short elementary 

 treatise, on the importance, cultivation, and management of 

 the Sdgar Beet, of which I present to the Society two copies 

 that I received from Sydney, and suggest the desirability of 

 its being republished in its transactions in extenso. 



An article in the accompanying Bathurst Free Press will 

 also be found not without interest, as announcing the inten- 

 tion of a gentleman in that district, Mr. J. F. Clements, the 

 successful exhibitor of a sample of the beet sugar at the recent 

 Intercolonial Exhibition in Sydney, to devote his best ener- 

 gies in the prosecution of this most important industry ; and 

 I am informed that Mr. Clements has obtained the services of 

 an experienced practical man, in order to put the matter 

 thoroughly to the test. 



Connected with these efforts, I have it on Hhe authority of 

 the Secretary of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, 

 that it is Mr. Clements' intention to publish the full results of 

 his operations in the journal of that Society, which will conse- 

 quently be available to our agriculturalists in due course, as 

 that publication is now regularly placed upon the table of the 

 Royal Society. 



Among the implements and machinery shown at the exhi- 

 bition before alluded to, in class 201, was exhibit 871 a., 

 Youngman's Patent American Sugar Evaporator and Refiner. 

 The price was ^£47 10s., and the exhibitor was Mr. Robinson^ 

 of George-street, Sydney. It is described as " consisting of 



