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Show i $ - New York Sugar Factory. t sv, Tho white beets received this season I ' ' v Mrorn ttio fathers contained from 14 to 20 I ' ler cont. of sugaf, While the red beeta I produced only 8 to 112 per cent. The F . ' factory will probably run about ninety I -days, or until aboiiHho 1st of January t The .Western factories generally run L .seven months or more each your, be- f ginning in September, and not discon- , , .tinuing until the following April. Next I . jear, however, tho Home factory will - - place more seed mul secure morecon- ( r. j jtraots the- owners of the factory having made arrangements for the planting of '6000 acfes, from which some 20,000 toiiB of beets will be harvested, . Last year the maiiagera of 'the beeta .'distributed the aeed among thfc farmers . '1 free; but this season they will Bell it at ' "a fair price. It takaa about ten uounda L ' , of, Heed to raise an aero of beet'. The fe&r p , " farmers heieabouta aru very euthosaatic about the new industry, and many aie 0 unxious to raisu beeta for the factory and besides raising beets at a hxed price per ton, many oi them have taken stock in tnu euterpnao. On the wliolo, tno . ' first season's attempt to laise beets and ( make sugar in Mew York is u succeed, r ' and it looks as it the infant industry was . the beginning of an oxtensiye change in 1 farming conditions in ttiis section. Philadelphia Manufacturer. There must be Homo mistake in the v abo id article. There are no lactories that we can romeniber that have run l'' seven months in the year. If tho ' farmers in the Rome district expect.to Mhiftr-, - xaina only "0.000 tons of beets on GOUo 'HEHWbifteacruB ofland they will soon iult the gjjSMvJB W(((usInesa'for Uniymi'tniakefaiiftff' t raising 3 tons to the acre. There B w jt"must be some mistake in 'the figures. . T ' " - . |