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two factories in the year 1901, 4,500 tons, made from 47,000 

 tons of beets, averaging about 192 pounds of sugar to one ton 

 of beets. 



Your honorable body appropriated by the provisions of chap- 

 ter 331, Laws of 1901, $93,000 to be apportioned under the pro- 

 visions of chapter 500, Laws of 1897, as a bounty, said distribu- 

 tion to be made upon a base of not to exceed one cent per pound 

 for the sugar manufactured coming within the requirements 

 and provisions of said statute. Under that statute I have dis- 

 tributed money as follows to the two factories above named, 

 viz., to the Binghamton Beet Sugar Factory $48,350.95, and to 

 the Empire State Sugar Factory, $42,347.03. 



SAN JOSE SCALE. 



During the year the agents of this Department have been 

 actively engaged in examining the nurseries, as provided by the 

 Agricultural law, relative to infectious or contagious diseases 

 of fruit trees. As a result of the examination of those nurseries 

 the Department has issued in accordance with the provisions of 

 the said statute 439 certificates to nurserymen on an inspection 

 of 7,156f acres of nurseries and 294 acres of vineyards, as 

 against 399 certificates on 6,005^ acres of nursery stock and 

 1,018 acres of vineyards in 1900. Seventy-six were certified for 

 the first time this year, accounted for mostly by increase in 

 business and partly by changes in firm names. Two hundred 

 and thirty-five nurseries reported as embracing five acres or 

 less, and 187 over five acres. One hundred and six nurserymen 

 received duplicate certificates to file with authorities in other 

 States as follows: Pennsylvania, 2; Georgia, 39; Illinois, 20; Indi- 

 ana, 15; Iowa, 28; Maryland, 76; Michigan, 82; New Jersey, 15; 

 North Carolina, 51; Ohio, 88; Virginia, 71; Florida, 2; total, 489. 

 After August 1st duplicate certificates were supplied only for 

 Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia, 

 the only States having laws and regulations requiring the filing 

 of copies of original certificates. 

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