296 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Ocr., 1897. 
The bags are made at the mill: two young people are engaged measuring 
out, cutting, and sewing the bags, about 1,700 being made up daily. 
Refrigerator.—40 feet wide, 75 feet long, and 51 feet high, with ten 
shelyes, on which are placed small bushes. This is one of the many means 
employed to reduce the cost. of manufacturing sugar. Bingera requires — 
about 60,000 gallons of water per hour for vacuum purposes. In the past, this 
water has been lifted by powerful pumps, erected in the bed of the Burnett 
River, 200 feet (vertical) below the mili level; but, by placing a pump alongside 
the refrigerator, all water and condensation of the cane juices are arrested and 
thrown on top of the refrigerator, which is so arranged that an even 
supply of water is allowed to pass over the whole surface and then down through 
the bushes.on the shelves into a large tank which holds 30,000 gallons of 
water. The water as it reaches the pump is at a temperature of 145 degrees; 
after passing through the refrigerator the temperature is 70 degrees.- By this 
means the water can be used over and over again for weeks, thus giving a’ 
saving on the river water of 75 per cent. The water from the supply tank 
gravitates to the vacuum supply tanks in the mill. 
All the machinery mentioned is kept in excellent order, and anything but 
a minor accident is of very rare occurrence. The arrangements are such that 
it will be seen at once by the description how labour-saving appliances are 
utilised, especially in the feeding of cane to the mill and of megasse to the 
furnaces. The illustrations are from photographs taken in the sugar-house 
by Mr. F. C. Wills, artist to the Department of Agriculture, to whom the 
proprietors of Bingera courteously afforded every facility for his work, even to 
stopping the mill for a few moments. 
