+------+------+---------+---------+---------+------- Total in the | | | | | | Zollverein | 96 | 107 |4,455,092|5,633,476|1,168,394| -------------------+------+------+---------+---------+------
---+------- [** Prussian cwts. are equal to 80 English cwts.]

This statement proves that the cultivation of the beet-root, and the subsequent manufacture into sugar, has greatly increased in the Zollverein.  Eleven manufactories had been added to the number in the previous year, and an increase of 26 per cent. took place in the quantity of beet-root which was manufactured into sugar.  Each manufactory used, upon an average, the following quantity during the undermentioned years:—­

1841-2 1844-5 1846-7
Cwts.  Cwts.  Cwts. 
In Prussia generally 38,161 50,384 57,774
In the province of Saxony 55,412 70,423 84,473
In the province of Silesia 33,595 36,909 32,347
In the Zollverein, on an average
in each manufactory 27,237 46,407 52,634

The increase is chiefly evident in the province of Saxony, where, in 1846-7, an augmentation of 1,087,851 cwt. of beet-root; in comparison 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 Magdeburg) is rendered more apparent by the following table:—­

Comparative Statement of the Number of Manufactories, and their Machinery and Utensils, employed for the Manufacture of Beet-root Sugar in the Prussian Province of Saxony 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
+---------+---------+---------+----------
|   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