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Show Thesuuk boot is worked for nil it in worth. After the sugar is taken, a good deal of boet molasses is extracted, from some of which "forty-rod" whisky is distilled. The remanent product is burnt and yields putash, a most excellent fertilizer. It has lately boeu discovered that the lees lelt alter the Eiigar has been extracted will produce a gaaeons Cimibuatiblo body, easily lujuetkd, which is useful in the prpparation of anliiuc colors, but is also a roff igcraiiug ni'iit j of great power. It evaporates m rap- idly as to cause a temperature of 07 j (Fahrenheit) below zero, or S8J bo low the point at which mercury freezes. This beet-root pro J net is One of tiio agents Used by the Boston company mentioned in cur telegraphic tele-graphic dispatches this morning a eugagtd in the extensive m-uiu.'actiire of cheap ice. |