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EXPERIMENTS IN THE GROWTH OF SUGAR 

 BEETROOT IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



The Board of Agriculture have received from the Central 

 Chamber of Agriculture a report embodying a series of 

 statements, laid before the Council of that body on the 30th 

 of May last, by a Special Committee, as to the results of 

 experiments in the growth of sugar beetroot, carried out in 

 various localities in Great Britain during the season of 1898. 



These experiments were originally brought under the 

 notice of the Central Chamber in 1898 by Colonel Victor 

 Milward, M.P., and the Board of Agriculture were subse- 

 quently invited to undertake direct official cognisance of 

 the experiments and control the analysis of the beets grown. 

 The Board did not consider it necessary themselves to 

 undertake any experiments of this nature, inasmuch as they 

 saw no reason to doubt the correctness of the view they had 

 already expressed, viz., that in certain districts, and in 

 seasons when the climatic and other conditions were 

 especially favourable for its growth, sugar-beet might be 

 cultivated with advantage provided the prices which 

 could be obtained for the produce were satisfactory. 



The Board, however, undertook, in the event of any further 

 experiments being instituted, to give the Council any advice 

 or assistance in their power as to the form of records which 

 might be adopted under the circumstances, and eventually to 

 consider how far they could assist in giving publicity to the 

 results of any new experiments. 



The Special Committee of the Council of the Chamber 

 of Agriculture have now reported that they thereupon 

 addressed to 400 of the intending experimenters a form of 

 enquiry embodying the particulars desired of the experi- 

 ments made during the past season. Replies to their circular 



