GROUND TOO HARD TO PLOUGH
«g» — Received Thursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, August 28. The biggest danger created by the continued drv conditions in Britain, is that sugar beet crops which forin the basis of the country 's domestic sugar supply, will be seriously afl'ected. In Rurrev farmers report that the beet vield will be loss thau half last vgar's crop and siinilar conditions are report ed in Lincolnshire and other beet growing counties. I11 parts of East Anglia the ground is so drv that ploughing has been abamloiied. Altliougli temperatures liave dropped from the eighties to the vicinitv of the seventies. there is still no sign of a break in the wnrni spell.
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 August 1947, Page 5
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