axony during the years 1841-2 and
1846-7 respectively.

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| |In the neighbourhood
|Province of Saxony | of Magdeburg
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| 1841-2 | 1846-7 | 1841-2 | 1846-7
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| 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
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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 inc