Sugar Beet Growing in Australia.
[Per Press Association.] Melbourne, Tbis Day. Mr Pearson, the Government Agricultural Chemist, reports the extended practical tests of- sugar beet growing in Victoria show a yield of from twenty-five to thirty tons per acre, and the percentage of sugar is higher than in any other beet growing country. He estimates a profit of from £7 5s 6d to £8 8s per ton, besides greatly improving the land. Mr Pearson comes to the conclusion that few, if any, countries are so well suited to the beet growing industry as Victoria.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 3, 3 July 1895, Page 2
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94Sugar Beet Growing in Australia. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 3, 3 July 1895, Page 2
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