lb. Report of the Agricultural Committee. 



» prairie artiGcielle de deux caballerias (ou 100 hectares). 

 » D'autres primes ^taient promises a ceux qui am^liore- 

 » raient la race des bestiaux, qui introduiraient des animatix 

 » ou des industries utiles ; a tout innovateur enfin dont les 

 » efforts heureux,tendant k remplacer la force par I'intelli- 

 )) gence, assurerait a la main libre la pr^f^rence surleses- 

 » claves. — SOAoiit 18i4.)i «Ces diverses recompenses ont6t6 

 » decern^es dans le courant des ann^es 1844., 1845 et 1846. » 



In Europe, in the Zollverein, not to mention France the 

 classic ground of improvement in the manufacture of our 

 staple, the extraction of sugar from Beet Root has, like- 

 wise, been rapidly availing itself of the improved modes of 

 manufacture. From statistics furnished by Sir Robert 

 Schomburgk, we learn that in the province of Saxony, and 

 near Madeburg, the number of pans for boiling with open 

 fire amounted in 1841-2 to 109 : by 1846-7 these had dimi- 

 nished to 87, whilst those for boiling by steam had increased 

 (luring the same period from 32 to 52 : — the Vacuum pans 

 being in the proportion of 11 in 1842, to 30 in 1847 ; an 

 increase the more notable when it is remembered that a 

 vacuum pan can do the united work of several of the former 

 kind. 



We also gather from the same source « that the heating 

 » with common fuel under the boilers goes more or less out 

 » practice, and steam has been substituted, by which process 

 » much fuel is saved, and the manufacture expedited. The 

 » size of the pans has been in many instances enlarged, 

 » which, with the employment of steam, has enabled the 

 » manufacturer to produce a larger quantity of sugar with- 



» out increasing the number of utensils of his apparatus 



» The use of vacnum pans is more and more approved of, 

 » though the opinion was formerly divided in this respect.a 



