Abstract
THIS work is founded on a series of articles by M. Julien M. Deby, C.E., published about a year ago in the Scientific American; these articles have, however been very much extended, and much new matter added, in order to bring the subject down to the present date, and so increase its usefulness in assisting those who may wish to establish beet-root farms and sugar factories in this country. The experiences obtained abroad, and investigations made in England and Ireland, show that it would be quite possible to grow sugar-beets with profit in the United Kingdom. The beets might be used as fallow crop and cultivated, instead of the roots grown in such great quantities as food for cattle, since the beet-root pulp after the extraction of sugar is even more valuable for this purpose.
On the Manufacture of Beet-Root Sugar in England and Ireland.
By William Crookes, &c., Editor of the Chemical News. Illustrated with ten engravings. Pp. 290. (London: Longmans, 1870.)
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On the Manufacture of Beet-Root Sugar in England and Ireland . Nature 3, 4–5 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/003004a0
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