24 MARCH 1928, Page 13

Several points in the new invention are of great interest.

There is at least a high probability that it will so cheapen and facilitate sugar production that the industry will be able to stand on its own legs five years hence when the diminishing subsidy comes to an end. The beets can be dried very cheaply; and the reduction of them to this state cheapens transport by 75 per cent. and enables a factory to be kept running con- tinuously. European sugar growers are deeply interested, and are making pilgrimage to Eynsham. A German who was shown over the factory the other day threw up his hands in amazement : " It is not quite possible," he said. " That England, the most hopeless country in the world for sugar- growing, should discover a thing like this I You are an extra-

ordinary people." * * * *