SUGAR BEET.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 954, 22 October 1910, Page 6

SUGAR BEET.

: EXPORT, FROM BRITAIN. ; By Tcle^aph—Press Association—Copyright. i London, October 20. Eight;hundred tons of : Norfolk-grown sugarrbeet. has been sent' to : Holland. ;

"If we had done as the/Continental countries did a good many years ago, and had set to work to produce : our own sugar, wo should now have 750,000 acres growing 'beets. We should have from three to. four hundred factories at least, employing not fewer than 50,000 hands, and paying ;out. ten millions sterling a ■year . for'..wages and management." ..This was' an imaginary picture, drawn by Mr. G. L. Courthope, M.P., at the British Association (Section, of Agriculture) in September. The chief paper on this very interesting and important topic was read by Mr. Sigmund Stein, who for a long timo has been' trying to stir his adopted country up to become a beetgrower on a large 'Scale Oue of tho main reasons which had kept Britain back from beet-growing was the s sugar bounty, system, undor; which, European Governments Icept up' sugar-production by subsidies to growers, and manufacturers. They could not compete against sugar produced with. State assistance. .But now the bounties had- been suspended until 1913, and would probably bo' abolished altogether.;' '■'.