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Show H Sugar Beet Growers Meet. H Tlio first convention of sugar bed H growors over held in tlm United States H is in progress in Koine, 2s. Y. It was flj called by the first Now York beet sugar B company, which have just established a factory at Hour e, and for wliich about B 000 fanners in Oncidn, Madison, Monroe, B Herkimer and other comities in the B sugar beet belt aro raising beets. The B weather is line and the attendance is B large. During the afternoon the visitors B inspected tho factory hi the western V part of the city, an J at noon, by B invitation of tho beet eiignr company, B took dinner at tho Arlington Hotel. B ' Whenthoconvontionmt'tll. 15.Hedlli B of Rome, chairman of the convention, IB made a brief address. He congratulated K the farmer that men of science had taken jP him by tho 'mud and inspired him with B reasonable hope of dawning ptosperity. B fie said the sugar beet crop would yield, B according to the very loweet estimate, a B net profit of $Jf to $215 an acre. |