New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-25
tAA peason than ever before. We eoaersu'@e q"
selves hat TnE Tmpus1, IN urging attention 70 sne
subject, has holped TO produce this very aeo'eoe
MORE MAPLE sC6Ah-
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MORE MAPLE SUGAR
n. "A. Is,i., .f TAs " j. TrsessA
S,y. nave noticed for q few weeks paf m Iak
T,,nxy communication as touching Maple Snsn, I
~. ..,a Won the result small scale Of one 10
...... ,,s C,auite Hlle Of New ,IIampehire.
c. vo.,s ago constructed building for boiling,
to. ineudipg a brick furnace and sheet iron pan
=, ey.po,ating at cost q 80; seventy-ive buck
-. eo,t $40 which makes the whole capital $D Ny
son ha, done all the labor Of gathering aud boiling this
season at cost, including or help, of s. have
psed II cords Of hemlock wood at 81 70 per cord,
A. g. and have made % gallons Of molasses OF con-
sistepce that it shall not ferment in the hottest OF
weather. This is selling here at this time for n ~
per gallon. The result Of my orchards a. follows
Interest on capital, 81 so; labor, -; wood, "
Total $l2 42. - gallons n,Olasses al 81 1 Iotal
$SS So Dsducting labor, wood aud interest leaves
So A. as the result Of about eight days IsD" 10Y S
season and what makes the whole more sweet ana ac
eepiable is no human ehatta was forced by "NtP" F"
serO!rtT 20 do it, -
Nv orchard consists Of IS trees Of second grown,
scattered along walls in pasture oi ID acres' =
tap with }-neh auger four feet from the gfound ana
hang the bucket by ring on hook drIven in.o 'le
tree 20 close 10 the spout that the Wlnd "hi nov waste
the zap tap at this hight that catte calno' uIlp
the bneket Some might object on the ground mat the
Lwer tree is tapped she more rap viii rum THIS is
moi The fact for the zap will flow as free by cutting OIL
stopmost branch as WIZ nom roo. a o' ao @ saae
nav learn this fact from the red squirrel, who, by the
vay is n famous sugar maker, and knows when to tap
tree and where to do IT. lie performs his tapping
,he sun and wind TO do the ev8porating, and in due
season and pleasant weather you will him come
round and with great gusto gather his sirup into his
stomach.
make only noasses and clarity in the following
manner: take take the sHup when Of proper con-
sstence, and while hot, strain through thick cloth
INTO the kettle for clarifying; and when cool for every
four gallons put in egg and half pint OF new
milk we'll heat together and mixed with the Arup.
Let farther agitation be had by stirring. Raise the
heat gradually TO boiling point and all the impurities
viii rse at once to the surface, and must be quickly
removed with a skinner as long as any comes up
this will leave the sirup perfecy clear TO be evapo-
rated either 10 moasses or sugar III the egg and milk
are put into the sup when hot tie abumen OF each s
ehared so that il will form adhesion with the Nm
purities and Of will not rse together to the
surface. think that the rapid evaporation OF me sap
in sheet-iron pans will make more clear ana hght
coloed sirup than when done IN deep, thick Kettles
nj apy rate it can be done al half the expense OF time
Mine has been small enterprise, compared with
many i'll this town. who have orchaIas tnat hunioei
three or four hundred trees.
The flow of sap in this region has been short, but
the greatest that has been known Tor many yeam
LyadebO,OuSh N. H., April Is, 1857 j. hEhHiCh
Wuy.T IN ILIIsoIs-The following extract from
letter dated Bristol Kendall County ILL.,, April IL,
looks bad for wheat crop in that section. Kendall
County is on Fox River, above Ottawa. The letter
says:
$50 far as my knowledge extends in this county,
there is O gloomy promise Of wheat. inter wheat Is
all killed with the hard Winter. l had forty acres
Winter wheat early Ill September, and II was the
test-looking wheat when the Winter set In ever saw
But il now presents nothing but dead appearance
not worth anything; with all the wheat sown last
fall in this quarter Last season was good one i9r
Winter wheat in this part of Illinois, and it brought
fair prices which induced farmers TO SOW large fields
which the Winter has completely destroyed, think
the ice that formed in December and January IN tins
part of the State killed the wheat. The ice COM
nsnced forming during a rain storm and continued
until the whole prairie was one sheet OF glare lce and
the cold increased and continued for weeks extremely
cold 90 that wheat was completely frozen TO death IL
is now so late in the season. and Sprg wheat sown
vet that the prospect of the wheat crop looks un-
tayorably for this season-not a bushel of spring
wheat sown yet and NO blowing done; so there is no
time for getting in much OF crop Ias season. .99.
Uusually we SOW our Spring wheat In March; this
year it has been nothing but rain and snow, mud and
iros since the 5th of February. This morning II was
too hard frozen TO plow, 40 you may judge OF our
Spring and prospect of wheat crop ,o,,nv,
SpRlse PRosPTc1s IN MIcHIGAs.-We hsve no
doubt that the following letter depicts most truly the
condition Of many thousands of the new settlers moi OF
Michigan alone but of several other States. We have
seen just such mprevdence of fodder in other places
and in other years:
SIR: The present is truly gloomy time in the Grand
River Valley. Fodder is scarce grain and provisions
are scarce and money is the most scarce OF ALL hun.
dreds Of farmers have bad fodder since the LIST OF
March Straw beds have been empted to feed horses,
but still the wintIy weather continues, and snow falls
nearly every day. The scarcity Of fodder was caused
by the last drouth people commenced fodder
ing in October and the cause has made provis-
IONS for our families scarce. The OF the great
want Of money, which cannot be obtained, must be
looked for further back. Two three years Of good
crops and high prices seemed 10 take away peoples
senses and they plunged head and ears in debt; but
one short crop has brought back their senses, and
shown them their true condition. They never needed
money much and never had 80 little with which 70
buy things nbeOlutely Indispensable; and they never
owed so much, or found money so hard to be got TO
pay with; and, 10 make their condition worse, the
prospect Of the next harvest anything but encourag
ing Wheat never looked better than when the snow
went Of in February, but the Winters covering was
removed too soen II yielded at once TO the extreme
diving out day by day. until despair Of an ordinary
cfop even if the future Of the season proves favora
ble But "no great loss without some gain" while
III, frosty nights have been destroying the wheat the
suearmskers have been reapng the best harvest they
have had for many years. Sweetening will be more
plenty than Shortening for the next three months in
this valley. iours respectfully, ,,,n,,
Grand Rirer Vsiey Ma, April 10.
A WHOLESALE BUTCHER.-Withn the last nlne
months over fifty thousand sheep, as We are credoly
informed have been killed at Albany by one man. The
carcaes ore mostly sent by the cars to tbs city and sold