Sugar-Bects and Beetroot Distillation. 
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the 20tli of April, on very heavy loam without manure, the land 
having been regularly manured lor many years previous. 
The crop was irregular, and produced about 40 tons of roots 
per acre. 
No. 5. Grown at Gowran Farm. 
No. (). Grown by IVIr. Thomas Lyster, Dunbell, county Kil- 
kenny, on stiff clay land. 
No. 8. shows the composition of an average sample of 6 
carrot-shaped sugar-beets, grown in the county Kilkenny, and No. 
9 that of 6 pear-shaped beets. 
Mr. Lyster's beets, it will be seen, weighed, on an average, 
2^ lbs. each, and contained, in round numbers, 11 per cent, of 
sugar. Excepting Mr. Lyster's beets, the remainder of the roots 
grown in the county of Kilkenny in 1869 contained about 7^ 
per cent, of sugar on an average. 
Composition of Sugar-beets grown in 1870 in England 
AND Ireland. 
The culture of sugar-beet in England has been largely 
extended in 1870, by Mr. A. Campbell, at Buscot Park, Berk- 
shire ; and by the farmers in the neighbourhood of Lavenham 
in Suffolk. 
In both these localities the sugar-producing qualities of the 
roots have been most satisfactory. The beets on an average were 
found to contain fully 12 percent, of sugar. Mr. Duncan informs 
me that he expects, as the result of this season's working, to 
obtain from the whole of the roots which were supplied to him in 
1870, 8 per cent, of saleable crystallized sugar of fine quality. 
By way of experiment, sugar-beets were grown this season in 
various parts of England. I have made analyses of beetroots 
grown in 1870, in the neighbourhood of Wallingford, Berkshire, 
in two places in Yorkshire, others raised near Sandwich, and 
also on several farms in the county of Kilkenny, Ireland. I 
shall now proceed by briefly reporting on the qualities of these 
roots. 
Composition of Sugar-heets, grown near Wallinqford, Berkshire. 
—The foil owing analyses were made of average samples of 4 
roots per lot. 
The seed for No. 1, white Silesian Beets, was supplied by 
Messrs. Gibbs and Co. ; No. 2 red, and No. 3, white Silesian 
Beets, were grown from seed obtained from Douai. 
The analyses show that all three lots of Wallingford roots were 
rich in sugar. There is no great difference either in the weight 
of the roots of the several lots, or in their sugar-producing 
qualities. The climate of a country in which beetroots can be 
