SUGAR-BEET CULTURE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2019, 16 June 1885, Page 2

SUGAR-BEET CULTURE.

Mr \V. A. CJrahvm 13 in receipt of the following encouraging lettei from an Auckland correspondent, referring to the question of beet sugar nianntaetiite :— I)K\K Sill,— Refei ring to our tntenipw of last summer, we now beg to ltifomi ><>ti thnt we have receixed a bill <»f lading for a case containing full jil.ui-> and estimates for .1 bectioot eugai tictoiy on the most appioved system. -This case has been sent by a \eiy roundabout way, otherwise it w'ouid have leached ib long <''K» : howexer, we expect it shoitly, and shall then have the plcasuiP of submitting the plans to you. A laige quantity <>f dilfeient seed has been sent to us, but only a few paicels le.iched s.ifcly, tin- others bi-ing destioyed by mice (accoidmg to the post-ofhee authoi itie>). We send you a sample of a paicej of beetroot sugar wo ha\e just been impoitinp, w Inch may interest you. We w ill tell you the piicolatei on, as for the pie-nut it H not coineinent for us to do so. l'nccs of sugar ha\e been haidening all over the world, and the estimates "f t' 10 beetioot ci op aie considerably lower than last year. Bia/il, Java, and the Wc4 Indian crops show likewise a falling off, and theio is no doubt that the unusually low prices we had lately cannot repeat themselves this year, and generally a higher rango of prices must be paid, w hich ought to givo your fi tends courage to grow beet and establish a fao tory, of the success of which the wntei, at all e\ents, feels quite ceitain. — We are, &c. [The sample of sugar can be seen «at this oHice.]