The California culturist . tates. We had supposed that the lead mountains of Missouri wouldhave given a different return. Even Spain produces twice as much lead as theUnited States, the yield in 1854 being put down at 30,000 tuns. Prussia produces8,000 tuns; Austria, 7,000; the Hartz district 5,000 tuns; Saxony 2,000 tuns;France 1,500 tuns ; Belgium 1,000 tuns; Italy five hundred tuns, and lowest of all,Sweden two hundred tuns. As regards the iron crop, we have seen Great the United States heading the list—the former with three and the latter with one,million of tuns; then Belgium
The California culturist . tates. We had supposed that the lead mountains of Missouri wouldhave given a different return. Even Spain produces twice as much lead as theUnited States, the yield in 1854 being put down at 30,000 tuns. Prussia produces8,000 tuns; Austria, 7,000; the Hartz district 5,000 tuns; Saxony 2,000 tuns;France 1,500 tuns ; Belgium 1,000 tuns; Italy five hundred tuns, and lowest of all,Sweden two hundred tuns. As regards the iron crop, we have seen Great the United States heading the list—the former with three and the latter with one,million of tuns; then Belgium 200,000 tuns; Prussia 150,000, and so on, Norway cooks portable sugar evaporator, 133 bringing up the rear with 5,000 tuns. The grand totals of the metallic produce ofthe world for 1854, as assumed by Mr. Whitney, are : Gold, 479,950 pounds troy;bilver, 2,812,200 pounds troy ; mercury, 4,200 avoirdupois ; tin, 13,660 tuns ; copper,p8,850 tuns; zinc, 60,550 tuns; lead, 133,000 tuns; and iron, 4,792,000 tuns.—\\ COOKS PORTABLE SUGAR EVAPORATOR. OUR engraving illustrates thisnew apparatus for manufactur-ng sirup and sugar from the juicef the Chinese sugar cane. It is aovel contrivance for the purpose,ras patented last year (June 22d,858) and considerably used inDhio last season. Certificates fromhose using it, recommend it in theighest terms, as both expeditious,nd superior in its working. The main features of its struc-ure are a shallow pan some three inches deep, with parting ridges about six inchespart, requiring the sap in passing from end to end over it, to travel right and leftiround the edges. The pan is slightly inclined upon the rockers ; the sap is fed on,t the upper or highest end while there is a good fire in the furnace beneath ; in itssig-zag course to the rear or lower end, it passes over the fire in a thin sheet, andconsequently the watery portion of the sap rapidly evaporates ; so that by the timet reaches the other end of the pan, it is reduced to s
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