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LORD DENBIGFI'S motion in the House of Lords on Monday night, asking for a rebate on the present excise duty on any sugar made in this country from beets during a certain limited period, raises two interesting questions. On one of them—the desirability of the State incurring expenditure in order to establish a new industry in the country—we have little to say in these columns; we may be content to point out that it is possible for a Government department to teach the community businesses previously unappreciated. This very beet-sugar manufacture has been introduced into the United States by the action of their Department of Agriculture, with the result that the production has grown to 210,000 tons of sugar in 1904–5 as compared with 20,000 tons ten years earlier.
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The Growth of Beet-Sugar in England . Nature 73, 539 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073539a0
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