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Show SKiAlt SKI.I.IXC; NOW j AT LOWKST OF YK All .!iigar is selling now at the lowei price of the-year, reports Facts Ahcut Sugar. On the first of December the wholesale notation of one New York ' refiner touched 5.50 cents a,, pound while throughout the central and 'western states the rulling price s'nee tha f!rst of the month has been 5.10 seaboard basis. The lower ba.sis pro vailing in interior markets Is due to the movement of bi'ct sugar from fac'ories located in the nnvtliern ':'t'-, j ro-n (hio and Michia'i in the I'.mI to Califo. nia in the West. This sML'i.r comes on the market each year during Oc'n'ier or Noveitilx ." a:nl usually results in a decease of all prices. This year the licet s m.ar crop is the largest tint has lie- n mad.' In ilrs country since l'iL'4 and the bee! S'r::T factories at present arc scnplvMig -In- bull; of the sugar beip,; -iold from the Pacific Coast oast ward to New York and Pennsylvania. While the beet plants are turrin.c out over 2 .nno.oon.oiin pounds of siiRar I hey supply only about one-fifth one-fifth of what the country uses during the year and the only lime when 'h-s stic:'r dcvuinales the market sufficient suffi-cient lv to effect the ireneral price of and January wlpch is the nianufact-i-rnvr secson for this sucar. t other limes the price is fixed by su);ar im-pciMod im-pciMod from Cuba and refined In Ihe liiir seaboard refineries, the imported yiiltar cousi t it u I Iiik iiboiil (1(1 per " u.t of the country's annual supply. |