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  Seventh 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  tite 
  

  

  PoLARizATiox 
  Brown 
  Sugar 
  — 
  (CoTicludcd). 
  

  

  SAMPLE. 
  

  

  No. 
  11 
  

   No. 
  1^ 
  

   No. 
  13 
  

   No. 
  14 
  

   No. 
  15 
  

   No. 
  16 
  

   No. 
  17 
  

   No. 
  18 
  

  

  Date 
  

   received. 
  

  

  1899. 
  

   March 
  

   March 
  

   April 
  

   April 
  

   April 
  

   April 
  

   April 
  

   April 
  

  

  30 
  

   30 
  

   6 
  

   6 
  

   6 
  

   6 
  

   6 
  

   6 
  

  

  Addressed 
  to. 
  

  

  Factory 
  

   Factory 
  

   Factory 
  

   Factory 
  

   Factory 
  

   Factory 
  

   Factory 
  

   Factory 
  

  

  Polari- 
  

   zation. 
  

  

  9o.l 
  

   94.4 
  

   92.9 
  

   92.9 
  

   92.3 
  

   92.0 
  

   93.2 
  

   9^.2 
  

  

  In 
  mj 
  last 
  annual 
  report 
  I 
  stated 
  that 
  it 
  had 
  been 
  settled 
  be- 
  

   yond 
  question 
  of 
  doubt 
  that 
  sugar 
  beets 
  could 
  be 
  successfully 
  and 
  

   profitably 
  raised 
  on 
  jSTew 
  York 
  soil. 
  Experience 
  the 
  past 
  season 
  

   but 
  emphasizes 
  this 
  statement. 
  For 
  that 
  reason 
  I 
  discontinued 
  the 
  

   experimental 
  plats 
  conducted 
  by 
  the 
  Department 
  in 
  1897 
  and 
  

   1898 
  and 
  gave 
  my 
  whole 
  attention 
  to 
  instructing 
  beet 
  growers 
  in 
  

   the 
  proper 
  way 
  of 
  raising 
  and 
  cultivating 
  the 
  crop. 
  During 
  the 
  

   year 
  State 
  instructors 
  were 
  sent 
  among 
  farmers 
  gTowing 
  beets 
  for 
  

   the 
  factories 
  manufacturing 
  sugar 
  at 
  Binghamton 
  and 
  Rome, 
  and 
  

   letters 
  received 
  at 
  the 
  Department 
  and 
  the 
  reports 
  of 
  instructors 
  

   attest 
  the 
  beneficial 
  results 
  to 
  the 
  farmers 
  and 
  their 
  appreciation 
  

   of 
  the 
  encouragement 
  given 
  by 
  the 
  State. 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  means 
  

   of 
  making 
  farmers 
  better 
  acquainted 
  with 
  our 
  Department 
  and 
  its 
  

   purposes, 
  and 
  I 
  feel 
  sure 
  that 
  with 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  years 
  more 
  of 
  

   education 
  along 
  this 
  line 
  the 
  industry 
  will 
  be 
  firmly 
  established 
  

   in 
  New 
  York. 
  At 
  present 
  the 
  industry 
  has 
  not 
  reached 
  that 
  point 
  

   in 
  its 
  development 
  where 
  State 
  aid 
  could 
  be 
  safely 
  withdrawn 
  and 
  

   the 
  industry 
  left 
  to 
  work 
  out 
  its 
  ovm. 
  salvation. 
  The 
  encourage- 
  

   ment 
  so 
  generously 
  given 
  by 
  the 
  State, 
  and 
  so 
  highly 
  appreciated 
  

   by 
  the 
  beet 
  growers, 
  should 
  necessarily 
  be 
  continued. 
  

  

  The 
  season 
  of 
  1899, 
  with 
  its 
  long 
  drought, 
  proved 
  a 
  very 
  imfavor- 
  

   able 
  one 
  for 
  sugar 
  beets 
  generally, 
  and 
  materially 
  shortened 
  the 
  

   crops. 
  A 
  rough 
  estimate 
  places 
  the 
  crop 
  at 
  25 
  per 
  cent, 
  less 
  than 
  

   what 
  it 
  would 
  have 
  been 
  had 
  favorable 
  weather 
  prevailed. 
  

  

  The 
  Binghamton 
  factory 
  had 
  contracts 
  with 
  730 
  farmers 
  this 
  

   year, 
  from 
  whom 
  they 
  received 
  12,800 
  tons 
  of 
  beets 
  for 
  conver- 
  

  

  