HOME GROWN SUGAR.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3234, 3 April 1917, Page 7

HOME GROWN SUGAR.

KXI'ERIMKNTS THAT MAY TL ILV OUT TRUMPS. Tiro shortage of sugar, says an Eng lish paper, will l>e over once and fo» all it the experiments in beet sugai growing that are being carried out all over the country prove m success. It in propose<l that colonies of wounded suld'er* and their families, each colony consisting of about 1,000 families, should be employed in the growing or the beets. Sugar factories for the manufacture of sugar from the roots will l»o erected near the fields, where tho roots are grown, and these will give employment to hundreds of' workers alko. In almost every county of England now sugar beets have been grown with satisfactory results. In recent years the consumption of beet sugar in Europe has far exceeded that of cane sugar, though the jnico ok the cane was the original source of the world's sugar supply, till now tlio manufacture ot licet sugar has been chiefly carried cn in Austra, Germany, and Franco. The roots are dug up when ripe, and stored in pits until required. Then the juico is extracted by various methods and c.arified. The refining processes of beet and cane sugar are conducted in very much the same way.