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his crop into meat, and thereby depend 

 on the fluctuations of the meat market 

 for his profits. 



It must be remembered, however, that 

 sugar beet growing has features of its 

 own and, contrary to mangels, the root 

 grows deep in the ground. Therefore to 

 obtain satisfactory results the soil must 

 be ploughed deeply and whenever pos- 

 sible up to 10 in. or 12 in. This deep 

 ploughing is the secret of sugar-beet 

 cultivation, and when to this is added the 

 right kind of manure for the soil, a very 

 large return for the outlay may reason- 

 ably be expected. 



We have purposely given no indica- 

 tions in this booklet as to the cost of 

 cultivation and the yield per acre. The 

 chief reason for this is that sugar beet 

 has never been grown in England except 

 on small patches of ground for the pur- 

 pose of experiment, and therefore no 

 reliable data are available for the time 

 being. 



On the Continent those figures can be 

 obtained, as sugar beet cultivation has 



