Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-03-23
4 Agricultural.
Making Maple Sugar,

The season Of making sugar is close at hand;
an rs there is much room for improvement in the
art, we give the following report of a committee
on sugar, ald the statement Of the two compel
tors TO whom premiums were awarded, giving
their modes of manufacturing the premium su-
glr.-OhiO CultiUatOr.
REPORT ON SUGAR.
The committee to award premiums on maple
and corn stlIk sugar would respectfully report;
That no corn stalk sugar has been presented to
them f)r exlmlnatiOn.
There we're nine samples of maple sugar Of at
least Is pounds each, exhibited; that each is of
good gu tIity, and that three of them are of very
superior (rectifed) quality, very nearly equal
The committee were hardly able to determine
which should take the preference; but after eX-
animation with magnIfyIng glass, Of the res
pectlve crystals, they awarded the first premium
of SO to Benz tmin Gauss, Jr, of East Bloom
field, Outarlo county.
70 Moses Elmes, Of Rutland, Jefferson coun-
ty, the second premium of IS.
BENJAMIN GAUSS Jns Report.
The parcel of maple sugar herewith presented
is a part Of that manufactured by me the last
spring. tap about 300 trees annually, and
make usually about 800 pounds. Much pains is
taken in cleansing the buckets, and in having
the whole apparatus perfectly clean.
The sap is boiled in sheet iron pans, placed
on an arch; after it becomes SYRUP it is taken to
the house and cIeansed with milk and the white
of eggs 1t is then boiled in a kettle until it will
grain, and placed IN pans to cool When cool
it is pu, in boxes to drain The boxes converge
to point, so that the sugar settles to the bottom
On the snrflce of the sugar in the boxes, damp
hlnnel cloths are placed, and these cloths are
washed every day in clean cold water, to extract
whatever colorng may be absorbed from the su-
EAR. This process is continued until the color
ing matter is extracted, and the sugar becomes
IS white as the specimen herewith exhb-
| tied
BENJAMIN GAUSS, JR.
East Bloomfield, Sept II, 1916.
Mr. EAMEs' STATEMENT.
First, the plan and manner of tapping the
trees in this town is worry nearly the same; that
is with half inch or five elghts auger and a
spite inserted in the hole, and a pine tub to
catch the sap from each tree. gather my sap
to one large RESERVOIR once in "a hours; then it
is boiled elch day to syrup, which is about one
hllf the sweetness of moldsses; it is then taken
out and strained through funnel cloth, and put
INTO tub or barrel to COL and settle fer IL
hours. use sheet iron pan set in an arch Of
BRICK the pan is made of Russia iron, eight feet
long, four feet wide, and six inches deep) 1T is
then taken out, and | am careful not to move the
bottom where it has settled, and place it in a
kettle and heat it to % degrees then add (tor
100 poundS) the white of four eggs, two quarts
Of milk, and one ounce of saerLtus, Qhe eggs
well beat up, and the saleratus we'll dissolved, J
and stir the whole well together in the syrup; and
when the scum has all risen, it is to be taken off,
aud be sure it does not boil before you hive done
skimming it, Then it is boiled until it is done,
which you will know by dropping some into wa
ter; which, if done, will form wax. 1t then
must be taken from the kettle and placed in tin
pans to cool and form the grim; and as soon as
the grain is sufficiently formed then pour it in
= to tunnel-shaped boxes to drain, and after "a
hours place flannel cloth on the top, and take
the plug from the bottom, and let it drain The
flannel cloth keep wet from dry t. day
Moses EAMEs,