Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-02-23
From the American Agricultural
70 Sugar Makers.

"a ". O. CHANBERLIN OF HUDSON CHIC.
In a previous article on maple sugar making
in the american .4yTicuHurist l recommended
wooden sap SPOUT, not because considered it 6
perfect thing, but hecsuse i; wss, on the whole,
better than any metallic one had then seen.
find four or five kinds are used in Vermont. but
only one appears to me, on the whole, prefers-
bic to the wooden ones which are in general use
here. That enc Is Posts Patent Eureka Sap
Spout and Bucket Hanger improved 1870 and
ISL IL is made Of cast iron, galvanized 10
that It will not rust and will last s generation.
Since it is metallic, il is not liable 10 sour Is
wood 10. 1t Is held into the tree by three thin
d" fanges' entering about hAlf 81 inch, while
hemispheTical surfsce - hangs" agsinft the out
or edge Of the hole The 81 f4rges" are about
ss thick as the hack Of On ordinary table knife
Gnd so stop very few pOres, while the hemitphere
stops none az all. The old - elder quil'' a. il
WAS commonly sharpened, stopped all the pores
for the first half inch, sad these are the very
ones that Yield the most sap. Then too, the hole
10 the Eureka By which the sap leaves the tree Is
az the very bottom Of the spout. snd when sp-
piled comes st the very bottom Ct the auger hole.
But al other spouts wooden and metallic, which
enter the suger-iole in the tree At ell, have their
holes in the ceuters aud az the spout is usu,ily
AuL44LNNA AthuWaiAs anu lIANel III IFnAlf AZ
inch this hole i brouzh. above the middle OF the
auger hole. This dans up a lit.le cap and caves
il there. constantly u freeze or 70 sour. The
shape Of the Eureka externally, ordinarily pre-
Yeats the sap freezing up OF 1t II d0ss freeze the
amount is 50 small that it thsTs in g very few
moments on the open metallic surface. Bat the
spouts in use here often freeze solid the whole
length Of the bore and az this ice is surrounded
By wood 4 bad conductor Of Le4-, il often does
not thaw 20 that the PAP can run until tso or
three hours after ii would otherwise begn %
TOW. IL is claimed that as no sap il left 10 the
hole to sour or gum up the pores the holes will
MT need regmiur az when the wooden spout Is
usei and that a. no pores Sse stopped by tic
spout itself you will get more sap with this
spout without roaming than with tie wooden one
by roaming And my experience the pzst seS-
n wiki thirteen hundred and fifty ttEe Euresss,
conyiuceS me, there sre facts. Tie open sheet
iron, OF unsp0uts, are very Questionable for
several reasons. la driving them, (uuleft very
carefully they cat through The bark into the
wood, causing great waste Of ssp ty leakage
And being open the air is admitted in the tlre
which s19u dries over tae pores and stop, the
a1w. This necessities rcsm'or or referring.
They also catch much water shat runs iown
upoa the surface OF the tree in storm. which
not ouIy darkens the sap, but has TO b. t5i.iei
our, which materially Injuries the sugar. H. the
peculiar construction az tie Eureka there ohjes-
lions sTc entirely oyeTc me- Its m1is strange
men- ir hanging ihe bucaet, g. convenient aud
nGeniously spilled. does tVsy with the nal 50
commonly used and injurious 70 the tree The
E1rekss cost good les. but they ar she thing.
They Will last life the aud 0u Jle whole, they
are the cheipcst fpouts made Good things
always COS; These spou,s are manufactured aul
sod by the inventor G. C. Posi-. Burlington,