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of 20 tons per day and was extracting 230 pounds of 

 sugar per ton of sorghum, was sold for $1800. The 

 Runnymede, Florida, cane-sugar mill, which had cost 

 $18.000 to erect and was about to have steam turned 

 on for the first time, was sold for $2000. The beets 

 which had been planted in the newly-established 

 California station rotted in the ground. 



With the abandonment of this work and the abolition 

 of the sugar bounty, the Government turned its back 

 on all that pertained to the development of a home 

 sugar industry. 



STATE OF WASHINGTON SUGAR-BEET SEED 

 FARM 



With the return of the Republicans to power in 

 1896 and the appointment of James Wilson as Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture, the Government renewed its 

 beet-seed and other sugar investigation work, paying 

 especial attention to seed developments in Utah, 

 Michigan and New York, at all of which places good 

 results were obtained. 



The number of beet-sugar factories rapidly in- 

 creased and with the erection of a factory at Waverly, 

 Washington, Mr. E. H. Morrison, who owned an 



