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subject. 1 farm some 2000 acres of land in Essex myself, and if 

 reason can be shown me for believing that sugar beet could be 

 profitably grown I will gladly undertake its cultivation. 



- I am aware that improvements have been made in recent years 

 and that thanks to better seed and advanced knowledge of methods 

 of cultivation sugar beet has been grown in England equal in its 

 sugar constituents to the roots grown in France or Germany. 



Dr Voelcker informs me that from over 14 per cent to 12 per 

 cent of sugar has been obtained from experimentally grown English 

 beet the proportion of sugar depending upon various facts-namely 

 variety of seed, soil, method of cultivation, and always and above 

 all on the duration of sunshine in any given season. 



" The prospects of beet growing may look alluring on paper, but 

 we cannot put aside our climatic disadvantages. If the experiments 

 already made still leave any doubt on the question, I venture to 

 suggest that before farmers are urged to enter upon it as an industry 

 a further series of experiments of a practical nature should be un- 

 dertaken. 



The Marquis of Denbigh might use his great influence to mdu 

 a few competent men in different parts of England to plant, say, 

 four to five acres with beet and continue to grow the root for four or 

 five successive seasons, careful record being kept of the proportion of 

 sugar obtained in each year, these to be compared with the weather 

 records with reference to the duration of sunshine in each summer. 

 I do not go into the question whether, if beet can be successfully, 

 grown, it would pay the grower. It has always been a mystery to 

 me how the Continental grower, even with his lower standard of 

 living and with assistance in the shape of bounties, can make his 

 crop pay with sugar at normal prices." 



CHARLES BATHURST. Cultivation of Sugar beet in England. - 



Agricultural Students Gazette, vol. XV, part I, August 1910. - 



Cirencester. 



The old idea that sugar could not be profitably grown in Eng- 

 land, owing to the unfavourable climate has now been dispelled. 



During the last two years many experiments have been made 

 in Lincolnshire, in Suffolk, in Essex and at Newnham Paddox and 

 they have conclusively proved that sugar beet crops can be grown 

 in England which will Dear comparison, as to yield per acre and 

 percentage of sugar, with any raised in other beet growing countries. 



