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will be possible to persuade a sufficient number of 

 them to embark upon the production of a new crop 

 of which the profitable cultivation must at best give a 

 great deal of trouble. 



In Denmark and perhaps other foreign countries 

 all these things are different, for there the growers 

 have often an interest in the factory and therefore 

 earn a double profit, that of the manufacturer as 

 well as that of the producer. But this involves 

 co-operation, and on co-operation the British farmer 

 seems at present to turn his back. I must admit 

 also that, in the absence of such a co-operative factory, 

 so far as my judgment goes, those farmers who entered 

 into five-year contracts to grow sugar-beet would do 

 so at some risk. Lastly, the labour of lifting sugar-beet 

 comes at a very awkward time, when most of us are 

 anxious to be getting in our wheat and beans. In 

 my own case, even that connected with the two acres 

 of this crop which I have described threw me back 

 considerably, with no good results to my autumn-sown 

 corn. 



