The new issue of Home Grown Sugar (6d.), the official
organ of the British Sugar Beet Growers' Society, contains an interesting description of the Kelham beet sugar factory at Newark, which was opened by the Minister of Agriculture on Wednesday. The capital of the company which has built this great factory has been provided in part by the State and in part by the public. The Fives-Lille company has supplied the elaborate machinery, and French experts have been engaged to assist in the establish- ment of this new and promising industry. Apart from the sugar produced, there will be a large amount of beet pulp which, when mixed with the molasses, makes a good food for cattle. The journal does not discuss the financial aspects of the under- taking, but with sugar at its present price Kclham beet sugar ought, we should think, to yield a profit.
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