Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-10-16
Sugar EvapOrators.

The improvements in the manufacture
of maple sugar have kept pace with pro-
gress in other things. Most farmers of
the present day well understand the
primitive method of its manufacture,
and readily appreciate the advance made
in the last fifteen years. When sap pans
and arches were first introduced it was
considered very great step in advance
of the old method of burning many
cords of wood made from green beech
trees nearest the boiling place." and so
it was, but a still further improvement
has just been introduced which is likely
to almost revolutionize the amount and
quality of sugar now made in this State.
We refer to Cory's Sugar Evaporators,
now being manufactured in this place by
the Hartford Sorghum Machine Co..
These Evaporators were first invented
about eight years ago for use in the man
ufacture of sugar from cane and sorghum,
but with later Improvements experiment
has proved them equally good for the
manufacture of maple sugar, and few
of them we believe, were first introduced
in this State two years ago. A larger
number was introduced last spring, and
the result is now very great demand
for them in every section of the State
where their merits have become known.
All sugar makers well understand that
sugar made the quickest and cleanest af-
ter the sap is obtained from the tree is
the best, and while cleanliness may be
observed to the same extent in other
methods, we are sure no other is equal to
it in point of time. The pan or evapo-
rator is from six to fifteen feet in length
according to the size desired, and divid-
ed into two compartments by a gate,
which may be raised and thus make it
one pan after evaporating is under prop
er headway The whole pan is divided
into lodges, so called, or crimps, which
are simply narrow concaves on the I'M
} der side, next to the fire, and convexes on
the upper or inside. These convexes
, form partitions the whole length of the
! pan, with outlets at each end, so that the
sap as it boils flows in zigzag course
from one end of the pan to the other
The ledge or concave underneath is
what gives such increased amount of
, heat to the sap and consequent rapid
evaporation There is also an ingenious
" contrived Regulator which goes with
: each Evaporation This furnishes the
= sap to the pan and is SO arranged that
it will regulate itself and thus saves con-
slant care and watching, while the ope-
rator is absent gathering sap or for
u meals. This is all the description we
. propose to give of it. Farmers who
may be interested should come and see
for themselves, or if living too far off
: send to the company for descriptive
} circular with engravings, which they will
s promptly furnish free of expense.
II The advantage of these Evaporator'
'e are quality of sugar and rapidity with
u which they consume sap, and as thequici
II plan makes the quality, the whole Is
W combined in the word speed. Beside:
this there is great saving in fuel anc
!. labor. By this method the raw sap ac
= tually runs into one end of the pan anC
|; comes out complete sugar at the other O.
: syrup if preferred. A farmer e2uic
probably make three thousand pound
with one of those Evaporators, as easll.
~ as one thousand in the old way. Loren
:. 20 Sullaway of Wheelock, says he mad
> 1000 lbs. with one last season, and tina
he can make 100 lbs. in five hours. A
. B. Gowing of Springfield, says he ca
" make sugar twice as fast with an EvaT
orator as by the old way. But the mo;
h' significant test and instance is that
'' lanes NJ. Ford an extensive sugar ms
c'' ker in Rowe, Mass, who made SON
'e 5000 lbs. last spring. He had doub
arch and put on an ordinary sap pan an
oe ono of these Evaporators side by sid
itv The result was he always made twice
ion much sugar from the Evaporation as fro
| it the pan, and sold the sugar made IN u
nh former for several cents more per
,rd- than he could get for that made IN t
,ers pan. 1t is also his opinion that tlrf