THE AGRICULTURAL JOUUNAL. 



765 



Stock Inspector. 



PATRIOT, 



Disease. 



Owner. 



Farm. 



A. S, Parkinson ... 



New Hanover 



Scab 

 Lungsickness 



Umshola & Makenke 



R. Smith 



C. Niebuhr 



Swaimana's Location 

 Effingham. 

 Borrelfontein. 



The whole of that portion of Natal north of the Tugela River has been proclaimed an infected 

 area on account of Rinderpest. 



The whole of that portion of Natal north of the Tugela River and the Provioce of Zululand are 

 infected areas under the Lungsickness Act. Individual cases under liceiise within these areas are not 

 published. Information as to any case under license may always be obtained at the Office of the P.V. 

 Surgeon, Pietermaritzburg. 



Rinderpest exists on farms Kirkintulloch, Hill Crest, Riet Kuil, Zwaartkloof, Doornkraal, and 

 Reproach in Ladysmith Division ; in the Normandien District and Ingogo and Gharlestown Town 

 Lands and Newcastle, in the Newcastle Division; on the farms Jammerdaal and Frogmore, in the 

 Kranskop Division ; and at native kraals in the Nkandhla District, Zululand ; also on farms 

 Goedekloof and Babesay, in the Dundee Division. 



M. J. HIME, for P. V. Surgeon. 



Principal Veterinary Surgeon's Office, 29th January, 1902. 



Sugar Machinery. 



THE "LILLIE " 



IN response to an enquiry from the 

 Minister of Agriculture, regarding 

 " Lillie" evaporators, Dr. D. Morris, D.Sc, 

 C.M.6., Imperial Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture for the West Indies, has had the 

 kindness to procure the following 

 answer : — 



Copy.] 



Mr. Claude T. Berthon, to Imperial 

 Commissioner of Agriculture for the 

 West Indies. 



Ceylon House, 



49-51, Eastcheap, 

 London, 

 24th August, 1901. 



Dr. D. Morris, D.Sc, C.M.G., 



Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture 

 for the West Indies. 



Dear Sir, — In reply to your enquiry for 

 information concerning the Lillie " 

 Evaporator, I would say that two of these 

 machines are at work on estates with 

 which I am connected in a consulting 

 capacity ; the one at Plantation Lusignan, 

 Demerara ; and the other at Canovanas 

 Central Factory, Puerto Rico. ' 



EVAPORATOR. 



As your friends probably understand 

 the construction of the " Lillie " I will 

 not enlarge on it, but would point out 

 that being a film evaporator the efficiency 

 of the heating surface is very high, a 

 square foot evaporating as much as 12 or 

 13 pounds of water per hour, as against 

 6 for a Standard Triple Effet. 



The circulating pumps may be con- 

 sidered by some to be a disadvantage, 

 entailing risk of derangemeni, but they 

 ensure that the heating surface shall 

 always be working at its maximum 

 efficiency, whereas in a Standard Triple, 

 unless liquor levels are very carefully 

 regulated, efficiency falls off rapidly with 

 irregular feeding. 



Another very great advantage of the 

 " Lillie " is that there is only 1-lOth of 

 the volume of liquor in process that 

 there would be in a " Standard," and con- 

 sequently the evaporator can be started 

 and "boiled off " ia a much shorter time 

 than an ordinary evaporator, thus con- 

 ducing to economy of fuel and labour. 

 A further advantage is that in case en- 

 ' largement of the factory ia contemplated 



