APPENDIX A. 



The following cuts are intended to show some of the more essential apparatus and 

 machinery used abroad in the production of beet-root sugar. At the outset of the 

 preparation of the manuscript of this report it was determined that its complete illus- 

 tration would be impracticable, but after the completion of those chapters relating to 

 culture and manufacture the frequent demand for information concerning the forms of 

 apparatus and machinery employed seemed to render this appendix necessary. We 

 have, therefore, brought together the following series of illustrations of the later and 

 more improved forms, most of which have been mentioned in the text of the report. 

 In order to make them better understood each one is accompanied by a short legend, 

 with letters of reference to the different parts where this has appeared necesssary. 

 This legend is principally intended for those not thoroughly familiar with mechanical 

 construction and designs. Many of the details which, in the illustrations, will be 

 readily understood by machinists, but which are not needed for a general comprehen- 

 sion of the principles involved in the apparatus represented, are, therefore, omitted. 



We have also attached to each a reference to the author or publication from which 

 it was taken. These are : Maumene", TraiU Theorique et Pratique de la Fabrication du 

 Sucre; Basset, Guide Pratique du Fabricant de Sucre; Stammer, Traite" Theorique et 

 Pratique de la Fabrication du Sucre; Walkhoff, Traits Complet de Fabrication et Eaffinage 

 du Sucre de Bettraves (translated from the German by Merijot and Gay-Lussac) ; Journal 

 des Fabricants de Sucre; La Sucrerie digene. 



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