------------------------------+-------------------+-------------------- | |In the neighbourhood |Province of Saxony | 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 | | | | firing | 81 | 68 | 24 | 24 Ditto, by steam | 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 | | | | | Cwt. | Cwt. | Cwt. | Cwt. Quantity of beet-root used} | | | | for manufacture } |2,349,774|3,387,280|1,433,293|1,889,463 Or on an average in each} | | | | manufactory } | 58,744| 86,853| 95,553| 125,964 ------------------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------- The increase of power by machinery is surprising, chiefly by steam and hydraulic presses, which has not only effected 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.