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seems a moderate value to put upon them. Neither 

 in the case of the sugar-beet nor of the mangolds 

 has the cost of the seed been brought into account, as 

 in the former instance it was supplied gratis by the 

 importers. In the light of the foregoing accounts the 

 agricultural reader will be able to form his own opinion 

 of the relative values of sugar-beet and ordinary man- 

 gold cultivation to the East Anglian farmer ; that is, 

 as things stand at present. 



I must add that since the above was written I 

 have found that the loss on the sugar-beet is even 

 more than that stated above. In that loss no allow- 

 ance was made for the sum deducted by the foreign 

 importers for what is known as "tare" (query, does 

 this mean terre or soil ?), that is, for the earth which 

 clings to the roots. In my case this came to 

 i, 9s. 9d. Also, there was a further deduction 

 made of 8d. per ton for the loading of the beet 

 into barges at the port. So the amount actually 

 received by me was only 8, 13s. yd. To show that 

 I am not alone in my misfortunes, I print here an 

 extract from a letter written by a neighbour to the 

 Eastern Daily Press, which sets out his experiences 

 of this crop. Although his return was better than 

 mine, I gather that like myself he has no intention 

 of making further experiments with sugar-beet. 



Sir, In your report respecting the meeting on 

 Saturday of the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, in 

 referring to my experiment of growing 5 acres of 

 sugar-beet you have made it appear that I have a 

 profit of ;i8, 6s. 2d. This is inaccurate ; the account 

 is as follows : 



Five acres sugar-beet, total expenses per acre, 



