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some of the most extensive beet sugar factories ot Grermaiiy. The fac- 

 tory will give emplo^'ment to from 100 to 150 men. 



The Scientific Press, (San Francisco,) of June 18, says : 



The manufacture of sugar from beets ought to form one of our most available and 

 profitable branches of industry. The waste products or pulp, after the saccharine mat- 

 ter has been extracted, afford excellent food for cattle and hogs, and will be found es- 

 pecially serviceable for use by the dairy establishments from which this city is sup- 

 plied with milk. 



PRIZES FOR ESSAYS OX AGRICULTURE. 



The State Agricultural Society of Georgia, in the list of premiums 

 for the State Fair of 1870, offers the following prizes for essays, compe- 

 tition to be open to all : 



1. For the best essay on the culture ot cotton, $100. 



2. For the best essay on the culture of corn, $100. 



3. For the best essay on the culture of wheat, $100. 



4. For the best essav on the culture of grasses and forage plants, 

 $100. 



5. For the best essay on the value of cotton seed as plant and animal 

 food, with description and estimate of machinery necessary for its pre- 

 paration, $100. 



6. For the best essay on the improvement of laud by the tiu'ning in 

 of green crops, in comparison with other modes of improvement, $100. 



7. The best essay on the practicability and profitableness of manufac- 

 turing the cotton crop of the South within our own limits, $100. 



8. For the best essay on wool growing at the South, $50. 



9. For the best essay on the profitableness of raising thorough-bred 

 stock, $50. 



10. For the best essay on draining, $100. 



11. For the best essay on irrigation, $100. 



12. For the report of the most valuable farm, $100.' (This report 

 must give full statement of its management ; the value of the land i)er 

 acre ; the number of acres in cultivation ; the value of every animal 

 used in cultivation ; the whole expenditure of money for the year ; quan- 

 tity of each farm product raised ; amount of money received ; full de- 

 tails in every respect ; whole net profits. In determining the question 

 of the most profitable farm, the costs of improvements in buildings and 

 the value of woodlands are not to be considered as part of the invest- 

 ment in the farming operation, but only the value of the cultivated 

 land.) . ' 



13. For the best essay setting forth the best commercial fertilizer, the 

 facts and reasoning to be sustained by an experiment made by the 

 writer, which experiment shall show the amount of fertilizer used, the 

 ingredients of the fertilizer, and Avliat proportions, combined with cost 

 and product, and show what fertilizer, with its combinations, is best 

 adapted to corn, what to cotton, to wheat, or to other crops, $25. 



SALES OF KENTUCKY STOCK. 



The following sales of stock were made by Kentucky breeders at their 

 annual public sales during the last week in June : 



At Mr. Alexander's sale, 6 thorough-bred mares brought an aggregate 

 of $1,365, or an average for each animal of $227 50; 18 thorough-bred 



