282 



TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Tear. 



Cwt. 



1862 



1863 

 1864 

 1865 

 1866 



17,112,066 

 21,080,121 

 18,288,911 

 24,197,127 

 21,081,368 



" The decrease of eighteen hundred and sixty-two and eighteen hun- 

 dred and sixty-four is explained by bad harvests; that of eighteen hun- 

 dred and sixty and eighteen hundred and sixty-six was occasioned by 

 the wars progressing in those years. 



"In eighteen hundred and sixty-six the one hundred and forty sugar 

 manufactories used — machines for cutting beets, two hundred and twenty- 

 three; cylinders for maceration, forty-four; juice centrifugals, eighty- 

 two; juice presses, nine hundred and sixty-six; refining kettles, etc., 

 seven hundred and fifty-seven ; evaporation apparatus, two hundred and 

 sixty-seven ; pans, one hundred and seventy-five; spodumene niters, one 

 thousand five hundred and sixty-seven. 



" During the last sugar campaign there were % consumed : 



Coal, cwt 



Coke, cwt 



Peat, cwt 



Wood , cords 



Spodumene for filtering, cwt 



10,664,614 



64,235 



1,123 



6,041 



678,290 



"During the campaign and part of the time during the rest of the 

 year there were employed in the sugar manufactories twenty-five thou- 

 sand and twenty-seven males and fourteen thousand four hundred and 

 seventy-eight females. The daily wages of the laborers vary from 

 twenty kreutzers to one florin per day, and there were paid during the 

 year over three million five hundred thousand florins on account of wages. 

 While in eighteen hundred and fifty-one but five per cent, of sugar was 

 obtained from beets, in eighteen hundred and sixty-one, by the improve- 

 ment in machinery, the manufacturers were enabled to obtain six and a 

 half per cent., and in eighteen hundred and sixty-six they succeeded in 

 obtaining seven and a half per cent. The pure sugar obtained from these 

 beets equalled, in eighteen hundred and fifty-one, twenty-seven million 

 fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds; in eighteen hun- 

 dred and sixty-one, one hundred and fifteen million fifty-nine thousand 

 six hundred and thirty-six pounds; in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, 

 one hundred and fifty-eight million one hundred and nine thousand eight 

 hundred and eighty-seven pounds. At an average value of thirty florins 

 per centner, the amount realized from the last campaign equals thirty- 

 six million four hundred and seven thousand florins; or, if we take the 

 Austrian florin at its present value, and reduce the quantity to American 

 measures, the sugar will be worth nine dollars and seventy-five cents in 

 gold per hundred weight, and the whole yield will be worth, in gold, 



