The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1843-03-28
From the Boston Cultivator.
nj APPLE SUG A r.


We advise every farmer who has maple trees to
consider whether he can make sugar TO advantage,
and in reckoning the cost be careful and not estimate
too high Labor should be rcckoncd very low in
dull times and when there is but little to do;
and the cost Cor apparatus should not be added to
the expense of one year, of two, three or four
Vessels for catching sap, Improperly made will last
many years, so will boiling apparatus. and it will
answer also valuable purpose for cooking food for
animals
From to six pounds of sugar are generally
made from tree, according 10 the size of the tree,
shuaon the season, SIC. We have made pound
TO- tree, and molasses worth half as much more,
Nm trees only 20 years old. They stood thickly in
q aNps, at the rate Of about 200 to the acre. In
4 some cases much larger quantity has been made
than named above. N. Clarke Of Ashfeld, made in
Tree successive years, ,4O5 lbs.of sugar from 400
trees which is over lbs. TO a tree Annually. Slow
Of Montgomery CO., N. Y. made % lbs. in nine days
from tree that had been tapped several successive
years before One tree in pennsy lvana % gal
Ions of sap in day, and made lbs OF sugar. 1t
700 gallons in year land made 80 lbs One tree
on the farm Of A. Walton, West Bethlehem, Pa. in
1922 made Ssh lbs, in 1928 "a lbs, in 1924, 29a
lbs., with some ,nolasses each year. The tree was
not the largest 1t stood alone.
1t generally takes or gallons Of sap for pound
ofsngar. Sap from trees in meadow, made
pound to three gallons. In cases, 2 gallons
have made pound A man in Woodstock, VT,
made II 0 lbs. Of sugar from 256 gallons ofsap
Aboiing apparatus should be economical, both as
10 its cost, an | the consumption of fuel.
Probably Il reasonable profit may be made, and
some money brought into the State be sending Ma
pie Sugar to Boston market. The price there by the
hundred, last year, is said to have been II or IL
cents, nipple sugar being in the cities rare luxury.
hJ>l'hc following extract from an English paper
may prove interesting to agricultural renders by
giving them an idea of the management of a farm in
Scotland:
Economy OF ScorcH FARM.-The Scotch
system of farming having been frequently praised for
%Mperiority the following statements relating to
'H"h the county Of IIaddingon may not be un'nter
esd3g to agricultural readers. The account is
collected from the evidence ofMr Brodia. the oceu-
pier, and may be at length in the third report
Of the select committee appointed to inquire into the
state of agriculture The farm consists OF 500 acres,
cultivated according to the following rotaton;-
The first faow and barley; the next wheat,
and perhaps little barley after the turnips;
me third is pasture grass; the fourth is oats; the
Nth drilled peas and beans mixed in proportion Of
OUr bushels Of beans TO of peas; and the potatoes
IRE generally planted upon portion of this break,
Upon the dry land. Very little hay is cut, from IL
20 acres; small portion of grass is rallied off, to
' green for the horses and in winter they fed on
straw of the beans and peas which very nutritious
"nen well got. The farm is divided into SIX breaks,
=" nearly equal possible. The first year, 40 acres
T." one of the breaks may be fallow. In the next
year. all that has been summer faowed, is sown
""n wheat and in good season, part of the land
'u'ch was sown on turnps is sown with wheat-lf
wv with wheat and barley. Two thirds oft Is in
"'s' and the remainder in barley. There are about
~ acFes Of it in grass altogether Barley has been
'''u alter grass, but has not answered. The oats
, "oout so acres, and not got in with once
F'usn'ng. Fallow is sown with wheat about the
u" OIL September and the bean land soon after
W" "s posslble.-If the land is dry and in good or