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CoRNsrALK SuGAR.-The manufacture oI sugar from eornsialks promises to become an extensive and profitable branch of business al the west. Mir. John Beal, of New Harmony, Indiana, has made 395 lbs. of good sugar this season, from the cornstalks that grew on three quarters of an acre. This is at the rate oi 300 lbs. to the acre. His plan is thus briefly noticed in the Cleayeland Herald: "When the ears begin to form they are pulled off, When the leaves are~lead about half way up, the stalk is stripped, cut up at the root, the toy cut of, and then ground in a sugar mill. Twenty stalks will yield about one pound ol sugar. Mr. B. ihade 80 lbs. in day, with a simple apparatus of his own construction.- Five hundred pounds at 1 cents per lb is S20 per acre. It would have produced, say fity bushels corn, at 9 cents, Sl2.

 .4Bl Farner.