Show no profit in irish sugar beets while allo sugar beets beeta can be successfully grown in ireland writes consul wesley frost from rom Queens queenstown town 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 or ireland the fact has been established that a normal price for suar beets will yield less lesa per acre than the normal prices for potatoes or mangels As the sugar beet industry would not be successful under tho ordinary conditions of pence peace the department part ment does not feel prepared to take directly or indirectly any responsibility for advising irish farmers to in grow beet root it Is added that whatever may be the results of ung lands landa exclusion of sugar therefore tn in scotland and england it beema nafe mate to assume that sugar production will not bo be developed in ireland now new york times |