One of the most successful growers of root crops in .South Canterbury is Mr. A. Bisdee, who is experimenting in the growing of sugar beet on his farm near Temuka, at the instance of the Department of Agriculture. In the growing of mangels Mr. Blsdee is practically invincible, as his records show (an exchange states). This year lie planted sugar beet seed on the same area which has in other seasons been used for bis mangel crop, and. following his usual custom of cropping ip rotation, the beet is being raised on land which last season was sown in wheat.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 8
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