Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-03-22

used all kinds of tools and methods of
tapping trees, from the old-tashiOned
way OF AK and tapping gouge, two,inch
augur, &c, TO my present method which
| greatly prefer over all others, for sew
, eral reasons, | use the patent iron sap
spout, HecOx, Patentee, H, S, Morse Of
Shelburne, agent for Vermont. First,
when you once get them, If taken care
Of as they should be, you always have
them, and they ale always ready. Sec
Ond, one iron spout in the same. sized
hole, will run more sap than two wood
en- ones at the same time will not cause
the sap to be sour or sliny until the end
of the season, and is perfect d. TO each
tree, causing no loss Of sap by leakage,
The sap, with the iron spout
TO run on an average Of half an hour
earlier in the morning, and running
from one TO two hours later at night,
with this spout than with any other |
ever tried. / use a five-eighths inch
center augur. The spout, when driven
with a small wooden mallet, which is all
the tools you need, Except an axe when
tapping large first growth trees, TO take
off the loose outside bark passes
through the bark, and not over two of
the outside grains Of wood. Therefore
you need not bore much deeper than the
Agriculturalist man cuts his Wncision"
'V shaped, with his mallet aud "wide
chisel, needing no one-half inch gouge
to cut another incision through the bark
OF the tree, for the Spite. And another
very important item is, you dispense
with all spikes or nails to hang up your
bucket hanging it directly on the spout
which brings it up close to the tree
and spout, causing no loss of sap by
wind. This is the fifth season l have
used these spouts and in that time l
have never found one pulled from the
tree by the bucket. In cutting up for
frewood some of my old naples, I find
more, or as much dead wood where the
spike has been driven in the tree for
hanging up the bucket as around the
threelourths inch hole of two to four
inches deep that ] used to use years
ago, with my old wooden spouts, and
two to tree. Another very important
item claimed by the patentee, I find cor
rect, and that is this: that the same
sized hole, (fve-eights inch) | have
found will close over with new wood in
less than one-half the time when the
iron spout is used, than when q wooden
spout is used. With those spouts Iiron)
you can tap your sugar orchard in less
than one half the time than by any other
method l ever saw used l disagree en-
tirely from the Agricuturalist writer, in
the placing of buckets upon the ground
or snow. They should always be hung
up to the tree, if the tree is tapped high |
or low.
use the sheet iron sap pan or pans,
and 1 shall, another year, put in the
tubular heater, which | think a great
improvement above all Others in making
sugar. Cooks evaporator" | do not |
like as well as | do the sheet-irOn or
copper pan set on a good brick or stone
arch, lined on the top with iron, with
iron doors and CRATES. My arch is y !
feet long with fireplace of four feet, and |
then the bottom Of the arch is brought
up within four inches Of the pans. |
use two pans, one placed forward of the
other the forward one being seven feet
and the other, five feet long. usually
boil with sap in the pans from two to
three inches deep. Use Jonathan Smead's
Automatic Sap Feeder" of Rutland.
Vt, (patent) which connects the heater
with the storage, and siphons connect
one pan with another and while the sap
IS Kept in storage there is no danger Of
the pans running over, or burning down
by the carelessless Of those attending
the fire, either day or night.
use large pine holders for the sap,
placed so their bottoms are some six
inches higher than the top of the back
pan, with elevated driveway for sled
used to gather sap. For gathering
use Doth forty gallon casks (part Of my
woods being quite rough) and large
gathering tub, with heads in both ends
and trap door in the upper end of ten
Or twelve inches square for pouring in
sap as gathered, When my cap goes
rom the gathering Sub or casks8nto the
'ecelVer it all passes through q cloth
'tralner, to remove Gll bark or leaves
hat may fall or blow into the SAP pre-
'lous to or while gathering. Then it is
'olled down to syrup SO soon as arv .soooq {
'ad lice mara to tend l. can do it in
'atche9 Of six to eight pailsful. The !
yrap dTopplng in fakes or drops of I
bout one inch wide fren the dinner :
nst at the time you remove the pans n
rom the fire, by crane aud pulleys. 1T !
ne end Of the pan | have a wooden
ask stand, Of two feet squaEe, and four g
'et nigh, and in the upper part three IL