SUGAR-BEET CULTURE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2360, 25 August 1887, Page 2

SUGAR-BEET CULTURE.

We cannot hut consider the meeting on Tuesday, at Ohaupo, as eminently satisfactory. Mr _ Graham, in addressing his audience, while he showed from Californian correspondence that the manufacture of rollned sugar from beet, despite the low prices ruling in the Muropean markets, and the high prices [raid for the roots in Cali-

forma, could be carried on at a profit, brought the matter to a practical issue. The question for the Waikato farmers to consider is simply this: Would they give a guarantee to provide the required quantity of roots at a given price, 16s per ton? This really was all that they had to consider. He would do the rest. They were not asked to incur any risk or take any part whatever in the manufacture of the sugar. Whether that were carried on at more or less profit or loss, did not directly concern them, Mr Graham, on his part, undertaking to establish the company without calling for any other assistance from the farmer than a guaranteed supply of a certain quantity of roots annually. It will be for the committee appointed to collate and print for publication such evidence as will show the farmer here at what cost the roots are produced in California, and enable him to judge what are the prospects of his share of the undertaking. The settlers will therefore, we trust, dismiss from their consideration all matters relating to sugar manu-

facture as a commercial enterprise, : as being outside their province, and look at the question from a farmer’s point of view solely, namely, the cost at which they can supply the raw material to the mill.