Connecticut western news., 1879-04-23
How Maple Sugar is Made.

As this is the maple-sugar season I thought perhaps you would like to know how they manufacture the genuine article, simon pare, in thesez days. The, Rock ,ns Gsgar Maple makes the ightest m color, r,sssweetest and best; favored.
 Many @earisess operate make maple sugar dark colored. fla heavy rain or snow falls and runs from the trees into the buckets with the sap, or if it runs very slowly, or if the bucket and boiler. are not in good condition it is impossible
 to make white sugar. And then maple sugar very soon slooses its nice flavor.
 The syrup, unless sealed up in air-tight
 cans, will loose it's flavor almost as soon
 as cream. If one wants to know just
 how good new maple sugar tastes, they
 should take the sap the same day that it
 runs from the tree and boil 1t down just enough to cap well on snow, or make
 into gobs, then it wllbe just splendid.
 Some of the inhabitants tapped trees
 three weeks ago, but there hasan been
 much of 8 run until this week. Instead
 of using gouge, as your Correspondent
 speaks of and as my father used to do, they take small bit and bore a hole in
 the tree about one inch and use spiles
 madefrom pine, or sweet elder with the
 pith punched out, and instead of the
 clumsy trough they use clean buckets,
 many of them made of tin, and some of
 them even with covers to keep out the
 rain and snow. Instead of placing them
 on the ground to tip over. when the
 snow melts, and for the handy use of the
 dogs, asnaI is driven into. the tree just
 under the spile, and the bucket, having
 9 small hole in one side about half ar
 inch from the top, is hung thereon. sz l This is the banner town in Nev l Hampshire for the manufacture O
 maple-sugar, farmers making from POI
 to 1000 pounds according. to the numbe p of trees tapped. In order for the sap t.
 run well it should freeze nights and tn wind northwest by day. When tn weather is favorable, they expect tn
 best run on the full of the moon. Som 1 persons say if they can only have thre good sap days they can make all tn sugar they care, for. The best maple sugar is not carried to market, becaus 3 it is as light colored as what we cal coffee crushed, and dealers would say once that other sugar had been mike , with it. --------~e -..s.. t There has been very great improve a ment in the facilities for converting tn e sap into sugar. Instead of the forke }, trees, or stakes driven into the cart
 with pole resting in the crotches 1 e hang kettles on, and standing over u Z. smoke till thoroughly baconed, the h now have houses with nice pans e evaporators set on arches, and many
 e the sap-orchards being situated on u n sides of the mountains and hills, u 5. sap is carried in gutters to the hou 1t and into the pans. MT. Gilman Moultt is has an evaporator which holds fro r. three to four barrels, and in one ho g. after the fire is kndled, syrup can '. drawn from one end of the evaporat le ready to strain and sugar off, while Id the same time cold sap is running in
 the other end, and thus he can boil aw 's twenty barrels of sap in day. Inste to of the slow process of sugari,ag Q es over a coal fire with man to dip t of syrup continually to prevent runni sn over, they now kindle up roaring f ye and boil as fast as possible till convert u- into sugar, without any danger of bun in ing or running oyer. .--.e -. E. l. Stand back now, and see Peru 8
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