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DESPITE the fact that there were 222,000 acres under sugar beet in Great Britain in 1927, the crop must still be regarded as being on trial. The rapid increase in its acreage is due in large part to the action of the temporary subsidy on home-grown sugar, and we have still to learn whether it will take its place as a considerable factor in British agriculture of the future. The amount of trustworthy information about the crop in its various aspects is still quite small, and therefore the recently published work on the sugar beet crop in the eastern counties of England during 1927 from the Farm Economics Branch of the Department of Agriculture of the University of Cambridge has an added value.
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"Sugar Beet in the Eastern Counties, 1927: being an Investigation into the Financial Results obtained on One Hundred Farms, and some of the Factors influencing them." By R. McG. Carslaw, C. Burgess, G. Ll. Rogers. (University of Cambridge, Department of Agriculture, Farm Economics Branch, Report No. 9.) Pp. xii + 94. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd., 1928.) 3s. net.
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H., C. Sugar Beet Growing in East Anglia1. Nature 122, 1012 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/1221012a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1221012a0