Year: 1869




Sugar making will soon arrive, and
there are no doubt some who are looking
with some hesitation on the course to
pursue. a3 l5


There are great many ways practiced
but in order to bring out this "sweet"
in a purified state there are but very
few ways that are correct and satisfacte-
ry. l wall inform the many inauireIs
through your valuable pepper of the cour.e
that generally pursue. In the first
place | will describe my sugar orchard
AMI the tools or things | have to work
with.


| have about FIVE hundred trees, the
mostof wh 'clare second growth and very
Ia sgn standing on an elevation of about
forty acres of land. l tapped two i.,...
drel and ninety-three trees last spring,
from which | made some over two thous-
and pounds of the incest sugar and maple
syrup. When the time for tapping ar
rives | take my buckets, holders and
boilers which were put way in cleansed
state in dry place, and repeat the pu-
rifying process. This operation is abso-
lutely necessary and should not be neg
lected. .,r.f .


have sugar house % by 40, with a
passagc-way ten feet in width through the
centre for driving in with wood and sap
and unloading at pleasure, having sap
holders and arches on one side and wood
on the other. My wood is cut three feet
ia length, in the spring previous tothat on
which it is to be used, and drawn in on
the first SHOWS of winter, so that have
the benefit Of dry wood. HH


have three pans set in brick arch,
two Of which are set side by side for boil
ing and syrupiDg down, while the third
pan is set back of these and serves as a
heater. This pan is set crosswise the
arch, and its length is the width of the
other two, and is four inches that the hot
sap may run through faucets into the 9th.
er pans. These faucets are near the end
Of the pan whore it is convenient to regu'
late them when needed | have the im'
proved cast iron CRATES and an ash hole tt
rec i've the ashess this | think is a gre a
imp -ovement as there is continual di af
through the ash door to the Goals or woot
which causes The FIRE to burn freely anC
to throw up greater amount Of heat.


My sap runs from a tub holding bar
rel and half with strainer over the
top, which | call feeder, into the back
pan. | have Il tub that [ gather in, that
holds about three barrels, made of pine
with two heads and tapering; the sma
end up with hole cut in the center the size
of common water pail, and cover hung
to shut tight and button. This holder il
put on a common OK sled and fastened viii
chains or ropes, and / go around with n J
team to collect the sap. | draw out
my tub with large sized w. l. molasscs
! .aucets. @


! tap with an eeven-sixtcenths curved
lip bit, bore in 4 to J inches, according
TO the size of the tree, use the pine spout
hang the tubs up on nails made for The
parpose; drive them just through the BARI
in a position that the bucket will just gt
under the spout. This saves the sap fron
being blown away when going into The
iub.


After / have boiled in six or eight bar
rels, usually down to syrup, take off tht
first at noon aal the other at in the eve
ming In this way | can boil in from ]:
10 Is barrels day to syrup, in the fror'
pans; never rcnioye the back pans up
less | get out of sap. Strain my syrul
when hot into tin cans with covers. Thes,
cans are taken to the house and stand owe
night; the next day the syrup is turned
free flom settings into small fat pan
made for the purpose to use over stoves
After turning off all that will run clean
turn the remainder into tin pans or pals
adding one third water. Let it remail
till next day, then turn off and repeat th'
process long as necessary.


Some think it necessary to clarity will
milk and other things when boiling, but
think there is no need Of it if the syrup j
properly strained and settled as it shoul'
he. ~ j. SANBoRS.


West Springfield, Mar. 2. q
Ygi M Mirror and Farmer


MASONRY AND FLowERs.-Thc follow
ing opening paragraph Of an address be
fore the Masonic Grand Lodge Of Florida