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The increase is chiefly evident in the province of Saxony, where, 

 in 18^:6-7, an augmentation of 1,087,851 cwt. of beet-root, in com- 

 parison to the preceding year, took place. If we compare the 

 quantity of beet-root employed in Saxony with that of the whole 

 Zollverein, we find that the former province requires 63 per cent, 

 of the whole quantity used for the manufacture of sugar. The 

 great activity in that province (chiefly in the district of Magde- 

 burg) is rendered more apparent by the following table : — 



Comparative Statement of the jS'umber of Manufactories, and their 

 Machinery and Utensils, employed for the Manufacture of 

 Beet-root Sugar in the Prussian Province of Saxony during 

 the years 1811-2 and 1846-7 respectively. 





Province of Saxony. 



In the neighbourhood of 

 Magdeburg. 





1841-2. 



1846-7. 



1841-2. 



1846-7. 





No. 



No. 



No. 



No. 



Manufactories .... 



40 



39 



15 



15 



Apparatus for grating 



58 



65 



27 



32 



Hydraulic presses 



136 



209 



72 



93 



Clarifying pans, with open fii-ing 

 Ditto, by steam 



81 



68 



24 



24 



50 



76 



33 



42 



Evaporating pans, with open firing 



130 



123 



55 



54 



Ditto, by steam 



46 



71 



28 



32 



Clarifiers, with open firing . 



23 



21 



14 



10 



Ditto, by steam 



23 



28 



19 



21 



Boiling pans, with open firing . 



76 



61 



33 



24 



Ditto, by steam 



20 



35 



12 



17 



Of which there are vacuum pans 



8 



21 



3 



9 



Steam-engines .... 



19 



40 



12 



20 



Horse-power .... 



210 



457 



153 



267 



Cattle mills .... 



19 



9 



4 



2 



Cattle employed 



79 



38 



19 



12 



Quantity of beet-root used for ) 

 manufacture . . .) 



Cwt. 

 2,349,774 



Cwt. 

 3,387,280 



Cwt. 

 1,433,293 



Cwt. 

 1,889,463 



Or on an average in each manu- ) 

 factory . , . .) 



58,744 



86,853 



95,553 



125,964 



The increase of power by machinery is surprising, chiefly by 

 steam and hydraulic presses, wliich has not only eflected a greater 

 produce, but likewise a much larger increase of the quantity of 

 beet-root required for manufacture. The works where draught 

 cattle are employed have decreased, and are only in use where the 

 manufacture of beet root sugar is combined with a farm. 



In Eussia, in 1832, there existed only 20 manufacturers of beet 

 root sugar, but this number subsequently increased to 100, and 

 they annually produced the twelfth of the total quantity of sugar 

 which Eussia receives from foreign parts. The number of those 

 manufactories in 1840, was 140, and the importation of sugar, 

 which reached to 1,555,357 lbs. in 1837, amounted to only 

 1,269,209 lbs. in 1839. The production of indigenous sugar is 

 now set down at 35,000 tons. 



