Report of the Agricultural Committee. 11. 



Thus it would seem that the manufacturers of Germany 

 have realised in their manipulation the views, thus express- 

 ed, of the celebrated Dumas: « Si Ton veutfabriquer dans 

 » de bonnes conditions, il faut necessairement rejeter I'an- 

 » cienne batterie d'^vaporation et de cuite qui donne lieu 

 » a de si graves inconv^niens.M 



The Magazine of Science of February 1848 reproduces a 

 statement made in the Economist, that : 



« The progress made in this branch of industry is astoun- 

 » ding. That the establishments are found to answer exceed- 

 » ingly well, because good, strong loaves, manufactured from 

 » cane sugar by the refineries of Stettin and Berlin, cost 

 » eighteen dollars per cwt, whilst at Magdeburg a quality, 

 » in every respect equivalent in color, as well as strength 

 » and of a pure taste, made from beet root, sells at seven 

 » teen dollars ; a price which leaves a profit of 20 per cwt. 

 )) clear.)) 



The following extract from the same Journal of 22'"' July 

 last is a further instance of the advantage of the use o 

 steam: 



« Formerly, the Dutch refiners made, on the average, 

 » from 100 kilo, of raw sugar, 50 kilo, loaves, 18 of lumps, 

 » being 68 kilo, of refined sugar, 12 kilo, of bastard and 20 

 » kilo, of molasses; but, in the improved refineries, where 

 » steam power is used, a more profitable result is now ob- 

 » tained, and it is thought that, of loaves and lumps, as 

 » much as 80 kilo, are now made, with 20 kilo, of bastards 

 » and molasses. » 



Now it appears on established fact that in beet root of 

 the best kind there is only about 9 per cent of saccharine 

 matter, from which the European manufacturer elaborates 

 and turns to account per cent, whereas the British Colo- 



