SUGAR-BEET GROWING.
Received, July 3,11.10 a.m. Melkoukke, July 2. Mr Pearson, the Government Agricultural Chemist, reports that after extended practical tests of the sugarbeot growing in Victoria, it shows a yield of from twenty-fivo to thirty tons per acre, The per centage of sugar is higher than in any other beet-growing country. He estimates ! tho profit at from £7 5s 6d to £8 8s per ton, besides greatly improving tho land. Mr Pearson comes to the conclusion that few, if any, countries are so well suited to beet-growing industry as Victoria.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5067, 3 July 1895, Page 2
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91SUGAR-BEET GROWING. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5067, 3 July 1895, Page 2
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