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prosecute any cases for the violation of the statute. I am of 

 the opinion that it would not be unwise for your honorable body 

 to make a small appropriation for experimenting along this and 

 other lines of work with which this Department is charged, in 

 which we are having similar difficulty with our chemical work. 



BEET SUGAR. 



During the past season, in accordance with the provisions 

 made by your honorable body, the following men, viz., Parley 

 M. Brown, John W. Calkins, George E. Hollenbeck, C. M. La 

 Monte, D. W. Lasher, S. Niles Loomis and E. C. Montross, have 

 been employed as instructors, whose duty it has been to go 

 among the farmers of the State who were putting in crops of 

 sugar beets for the first time to instruct them relative to the 

 preparation of the soil, growing, caring for and harvesting the 

 beets for the sugar-beet factories. These men have been em- 

 ployed all the time they profitably could in this work. Just 

 how to measure the results to determine whether they were 

 beneficial or otherwise I am at a loss. There can hardly be 

 doubt, however, but what this work has been of great help to 

 those who were putting in first crops, entirely ignorant of its 

 requirements, being a new industry within the State. There 

 have been two beet-sugar factories in operation in the State 

 during the present season — one at Binghamton, N. Y., known 

 as the Binghamton Beet Sugar Company's Factory, and the 

 other at Lyons, N. Y., known as the Empire State Sugar Com- 

 pany's Factory. 



Reports from the men in the field show that in many cases 

 the land selected for the growing of the beets was not appro- 

 priate for the purpose and consequently showed a small yield. 

 This had a tendency to make the average per acre smaller from 

 the beets thus raised in the State of New York. During the 

 year above mentioned there were produced by the two factories 

 sugar as follows, viz.: The Binghamton Beet Sugar Factory, 

 2,500 tons, and the Empire State Sugar Factory, 2,000 tons, 

 making in the aggregate the amount of sugar made by these 



