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collected from the surrounding country they have to 

 be lodged and boarded. The lodging costs them 

 25 ore (3d.) per diem, or, including coffee and their 

 food, 1 krone 20 ore (is. 4d.), for which sum they are 

 also supplied with two bottles of beer. The diet is 

 ample. In the daytime they are given soup, meat, 

 and fifteen enormous sandwiches of ham, sausage, 

 brawn, &c. If on night work they receive seventeen 

 of the same sandwiches with coffee and beer. The 

 accommodation also is very good, comprising large 

 dining and smoking rooms, with sleeping chambers 

 arranged for twelve beds, and bathrooms. 



If such sugar mills should be established in 

 England, as is now proposed, I think that one of the 

 difficulties will be to provide an adequate supply of 

 competent labour. I know of few districts whence 

 four hundred, or even two hundred men could be 

 taken for three months without quite upsetting the 

 local agricultural labour market. Also I wonder 

 whether our farm hands would face the heat and 

 arduous work of such a place, except at a rate of 

 wage that might prove prohibitive. Indeed my 

 private opinion is that most of the labour will have 

 to come from elsewhere than the surrounding 

 fields and villages, especially as the agricultural 

 operation of lifting the beet must absorb many 

 extra hands. 



This year (19 10) I have grown two acres of sugar- 

 beet as an experiment. They have not been very suc- 

 cessful, as they were sown late upon the only piece 

 of land that was left available, which is heavy in 

 character, whereas to succeed well these beet seem 

 to require light or mixed soil. Also the season in 



