Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1915 — No Profit In Irish Sugar Beets. [ARTICLE]

No Profit In Irish Sugar Beets.

While sugar beets can be successfully grown in-Ireland, writes Consul Wesley Frost, from Queenstown, their culture would probably not be profitable, according to a statement just Issued by the head of the department of agriculture and technical instruction for Ireland. The fact has been established that a normal price for sugar beets will yield less per acre than the normal prices for potatoes or mangels. As the sugar beet Industry would not be successful under the ordinary conditions of peace, the department does not feel "prepared to take, directly or indirectly, any responsibility for advising Irish farmers to grow beet root.” It Is added that whatever may be the results of England’s exclusion of sugar, therefore, in Scotland and England, it seems safe to assume that sugar production will not be developed in Ireland.—New York Times.