524 Saddle Horses of New South Wales. 



ing* statement, taken from a recent issue of Willett and 

 Gray's Statistical Sugar Trade Journal, giving the quantities 

 of beet-sugar produced, and the number of factories in oper- 

 ation each year, from 1892-93 to 1901-02 : — 



Yea 



1901-02 

 1900-01 

 1899-00 

 1898-99 

 1897-98 

 1896-97 

 1895-96 

 1894-95 

 1893-94 

 1892-93 



Sugar 

 Produced. 



Tons (2,240 





pounds). 



No. 



"150,000 



39 



76,859 



34 



72,944 



3i 



32,471 



15 



40,399 



9 



37,536 



7 



29,220 



6 



20,092 



5 



I9-550 



6 



12,018 



6 



Factories 

 Operated. 



"Estimated. 



In 1892-93, this industry was carried on only west of the 

 Mississippi, three of the six factories then in operation being 

 located in California, two in Nebraska, and one in Utah, 

 At the taking of the census of 1900, the number of factories 

 in California had increased to eight, in Nebraska to three, 

 and in Utah to four. The industry had, moreover, been 

 taken up to a varying extent in nine other States. Ten 

 factories were in operation in Michigan, making this 

 State, in point of the number of factories, the leading 

 State in the Union ; three factories had been established 

 in each of the States of New York and Colorado, and 

 single factories had been erected in Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, 

 New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. The capital 

 invested in the industry in 1900 amounted to ^4,366,000. 



[U.S. Crop Reporter, January, 1 902.] 



The Saddle Horses of New South Wales. 



The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales contains 

 an interesting report by Mr. Bruce, the Chief Inspector of 

 Stock, on the deterioration of the saddle horses of the colony. 

 From about 1810 to 1850 the riding horses of New South 



