. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 'J^^^^J:^-:'^ Fig. 659. The making of hay, where hay is cheap; it is a wasteful method. enough to tap ; and, with clean turf to the edge of the stone pike, they make a beautiful boule- vard out of a common country road. Closing up.âAt the close of the season all vessels and utensils should be scalded, washed and wiped, and stored " in the dry," the buckets not "
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 'J^^^^J:^-:'^ Fig. 659. The making of hay, where hay is cheap; it is a wasteful method. enough to tap ; and, with clean turf to the edge of the stone pike, they make a beautiful boule- vard out of a common country road. Closing up.âAt the close of the season all vessels and utensils should be scalded, washed and wiped, and stored " in the dry," the buckets not " nested," so that they will not rust. Then the large shed should be filled with fine wood for the next season's boiling. Thus stored, old rails, limbs and partly rotten wood, unfit for sale, will do very well with a little sound wood. Such wood dried ten months under cover makes the most rapid boiling and the best quality of syrup. Utilizing the product.âNearly the entire Ohio crop is made into best syrup with apparatus much like that described above, and is sold as a luxury costing the consumer .$1 to .$ per gallon. Per- haps one-tenth of the crop is made into "maple cream," a delicious, almost white, soft, creamy candy, that sells at twenty to thirty cents per pound. It is made by boiling best-grade sj^rup a little than it is boiled to make the hard, coarse- grained cake sugar. While hot it is rapidly stirred till it comes to a thick, whitish, creamy condition and is poured into molds when as thick as it will pour. It never becomes very hard and brittle, and dissolves quickly in the mouth with a most deli- cious flavor. MEADOWS AND PASTURES. Figs. 659-675. [See, also, article on G'«>-.] By ^i*. Fraaci'. Meadow is land devoted to crops which are to be made into hay. The word is from the Anglo-Saxon 7wa;(f = meadow. Frequently land which is too low and wet to be used for other purposes is re- tained as mea- dow. Pasture is land de- voted to c
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