SUGAR-BEET CULTURE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2152, 24 April 1886, Page 2

SUGAR-BEET CULTURE.

A cobbespondent wrif.es to us :— Sir,— I enclose an extract from the London Figaro, thinking that the paragraph may perhaps be read with interest by those who advocated the starting of the beet-sugar industry in Waikato some few mouths iback. [Enclosukk.] "I am glad to learn that an effort is about to bo made on a large and well considered scale to produce beet-made sugar in this country. How cruelly England and her colonies have sufferod in the direction of sugar manufacture is now an old tale ; but it it wisely felt that at least another determined effort should be made to compete with the foreigners who, thanks to the lavish bounties allowed by their Governments, have taken our sugar trade almost wholly from us. Beet grows best in a light sandy soil, and a quantity of land has been secured in Norfolk for the purpose of the experiment in o,uestion. The undertaking, details of which will soon be mode public, will have the * most influential support, and the fact that strontia, a chemical largely vied in the manufacture of beetsugar, is found chiefly in thenorth of England la another reason for believing that the meditated attempt to revivify a moribund British industry will be as successful as I hope it may be."— London Figaro, 10th September, 1889.