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most tentative manner, as after all it is based only on 

 a single experiment. Still, I believe the figures to be 

 accurate, and I may add that for my part until I see 

 a factory established within a few miles of my farm, 

 I shall grow no more sugar-beet. Nor even then, 

 unless I were part-owner of such a factory, would I, 

 as at present advised, contract to grow this crop at 

 less than 30s. a ton. 



By way of contrast I will now give the cost, &c, 

 of growing 2 acres of mangold upon another field of 

 my farm in this same bad year of 19 10. The weight 

 of roots in this instance is not hypothetical, but that 

 lifted. Or rather it is less, since when these were 

 weighed for the purposes of a local root club com- 

 petition they were found to come to over 38 tons the 

 acre, instead of 35 tons, the weight allowed for in the 

 following account : 



2S. 



Cost of Growing 2 Acres of Mangold on Ape-Field, Ditchingham 



s. 



Ploughing 10 



Harrowing, drilling, and rolling 



Horse and hand hoeing 



Forty loads of farmyard manure at 



8 cwt. of mangold manure at 7s. 



1 cwt. of nitrate of soda 



Rent and rates 



Lifting crop .... 



Delivery to station 



Carriage to Lowestoft at is. iod. per ton 



o 



14 



o 



16 



10 

 10 



4 

 o 

 8 



Total 

 By 70 tons mangold at 10s. per ton 



Profit 



27 2 4 



35 o 



7 17 8 



It should be added that in this case the mangold were 

 not sold, but as they are of excellent quality, 10s. a ton 



