Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-10-05
agricultural.
The Manufacture of Maple Sugar
EVAPoRAToRs.


Mr.. EDITOR Perhaps it may seem out Of
season to write about making sugar, but as
those intending to make repairs or change in
their boiling apparatus, usually do this in
autumn, it's appropriateness will become ap-
parent.
The production of maple sugar in Vermont
is an item of considerable Importance, and
the demand for it is such, that those having
extensive orchards, rightly managed, find
themselves possessed of no inconsiderable
means Of income.
Improvement in the method Of the manu-
facture of this article, we may say, has kept
pace with other branches of industry, and
the quality thus produced has reached a high
degree of excellence.
1 send you, along with this article, some
specimens of syrup and sugar, manufactured
by men in this town, (Franklin) of the fol
lowing description: Syrup, by R. 5. Willard F.;
tub sugar, by j. Colcord; cake, by d. s
cleveland, and W. Hibbard. The sap from
which these samples were obtained, was
boiled down in the Sugar Evaporators, made
at the Branch Works of the Hartford Machine
Company, located at Bellows Falls, Vt. 1t
will not take a professed sugar maker or
dealer to judge of the quality of these samples,
as | think you will admit.
This quality of sugar will sell readily, and
at from two to five cents per pound above
that made in the old way, and the syrup ac-
cordingly.
1t is claimed by those using these evapors-
tors, and have seen several, that there is a
saving of from one-third to one-half of the
fuel, as used in the common pan. One man
found be used one-half cord of wood for a
hundred pounds of sugar, which is saving
Of fully one-half
One man with an evaporator seven and one
half feet long, smallest size, can reduce suf1-
cient sap to syrup, of the consistence OF the
sample sent for $50 pounds in a day. An
other with one nine feet long, for 200 pounds,
and still another, with one twelve feet, for
300 pounds. To do this it requires dry wood,
as indeed do the common pans.
R. s. Willard of this town, who is the
manufacturers agent in this part of the
county, boiis the sap from 1900 trees in an
He disposed of the product in the form of
syrup, and last spring had more orders than
he could fill, at an advanced price. The sap
enters these pans at one corner, and after
passing back and forth crosswise, for the
whole length of the same, energies on the
opposite side, remaining in the pan but a
very short time. This will account, in part,
for the superior quality of the range.
A little apparatus called governor, "
regulates the flow of the sap, so that it can be
safely left without danger of burning.
Those using these evaporators in this town
are highly pleased with their performance,
and say they even exceed the representations
of those interested in their sale.
This pan is combination of Cary's, Cooks.
Harris and Williams patent combined. II
is well made and fully warranted, and of the
great number sold not one has been returned
as failure. In 1869 it was awarded ten
frS premiums, by the New England, the
Verm ont and New hampshire State Fairs,
and various county Societies. The first cost
of tsese evaporators is not much, if any,
moro for pans to fill the same amount of SAP
and so well are they liked that farmers are
laying aside good pans for these.
Those interested in sugar-making, will do
well to look into the matter for themselves,
as it is one that will bear investigation.