BARBABIETOLE DA ZUCCHERO E BARBABIETOLE DA FORAGGIO

Italy: Carlo Cassone, 1898. Hardcover. Tan oil cloth covers. Very good. 95 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Through most of the 19th century, sugar beet farming in Italy was more an agronomic curiosity and policy debate point - usually with small plots, trials, and various factory schemes. By the end of the century, sugar policy and factory construction had turned beet cultivation into a meaningful, regionally concentrated component of northern Italian agriculture, laying the groundwork for the 20th-century industry. Here, the author examines the best sugar beet varieties, best climate, sowing, storage, etc. Illustrated throughout. Endpapers filled with sugar beet advertisements. Previous owner's signature on title page and front cover. Pages lightly toned. Covers lightly soiled.