Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-03-22
MAPLE SUGAR.

there is one farm crop that Is "whlte toi
the harvest" and must be gathered while
the snow still covers the face Of the earth
This spring, especially, with sugar at ~
or 80 cents per pound, every family that
owns or can hire few maple trees should
make the most of them. We believe that
farmers are effecting great Improvement
in the details Of the manufacture OF ma
pls sugar, and that still further improve
nenbs, and still greater care, Will DC
FUND to pay, aside from the qualification
Of enjoying luxury which is the direct
result Of ones own industry. Some OF
the most pleasant reeollectiOns of our boy
Rood are connected with scenes in the
grand old sugar lot, above the house.
The trees were then "boxed" with an axe,
wooden spout conducted the sap into
still ruder troughs, it was carried in these
buckets, balanced over ones shoulder by
q sap-yoke, to a large "holder" near a
FIRE built against some huge log or square
faced rock, ever which, strung on pole,
hung the old five-pail and three,paii ket-
tie, big pot, little pot and even the skillet
just to please the children. Near by
stood little tent, that might at least
partly shelter full grown man from the
winds that blew, and the snow and rain
that fell.
But now, things are done differently.
The trees are carefully "tapped" with a
small sharp-cutting augur; cast iron or
sheet iron spouts are neatly fitted many
use bright tin for sap buckets, others nice
wooden ones; nearly all have sheet iron
pans or large kettles set in close arch,
sometimes placing the chimney at the
front, with portion in the arch, which
forces the heat to perform circle before
it escapes, aud arranged under tight
roof, and in convenient room. How much
cleaner, how much more comfortable the
whole process. 1 .,.
A New York sugar maker, states, in the
Rochester Rural, that he hangs his buckets
on cast iron spouts, and thus avoids the
wound and loss of sap occasioned by the
use of spike. His bit for tapping is a
9-l6th inch he bores about | IL inches
deep, and one spout in tree sometimes
rims out the hole by the use of bit
l-l6th larger, when he thinks the flow of
sap will be increased thereby. Mr.. Law
renee Smith, of Worthington, in this
State, recommends that at first the hole
be bored about 2 IL inches deep, and in
the course Of two or three weeks sink
another inch and a half. This recon-
mendation is based on an experiment
which he communicates to the Country
Gentleman, as follows /:
Selected tree Is inches in diameter,
bored hole with an auger | IL inches
in diameter. two inches in depth from
the inside bark drove in hollow wood
tube tor conducting the sap. Then, com
mencing at the centre where the first in.
cision left off, bofed another hole with 0
half inch bit exactly two inches deeper
into the tree, making four inches in all
Inserted half inch spout through thu
hollow tube into the second bore very
snug, so that the inside sap might no
leak into the other. This tube was mucl
longer than the first, So that in using tw,
vessels side by side, the sap could be con
Quoted beyond the first into the second
The sap from these missions was boilet
separately at the same time in two kettle
on the stove, with the following results
Three and one-hslf quarts of sap from
the first and outside bore made four oun
ses Of sugar; the quantity of sal
from the inside bore made five ounce
Of sugar, each done to an equal dry
ness"
If the snow is not too deep, let tn
boys yoke up their steers and with ligh
stcer-sleds-made purposcly to encourag
the boys to handy, not break their ow
teams--help draw up the sap Even Las
springs calves may be yoked and put o
o. leaders; and thus may boys, steer
and the, whole camp enjoy jolly tim
this "sagaripg." -NesO England Farme,
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