. Barn plans and outbuildings . furnace $20, pipes $20,parer $13, slicer $20, bleaching box and crates $15,total $88. Some consider a better furnace, costing $40,more economical. Commercial drying houses, i. e., thosepurchasing green fruit for drying, are on the same generalplan as the farm evaporators, but larger. A MODERN MAPLE SUGAR HOUSE The sugar house of A. J. Harmon of Ohio, shown inFigures 360 and 361, is sixteen by thirty-six feet, twelvefeet high, with syrup and packing room in front,twelve by sixteen feet, with room for sap pailsdirectly above. These rooms are ceiled with a tight pa
. Barn plans and outbuildings . furnace $20, pipes $20,parer $13, slicer $20, bleaching box and crates $15,total $88. Some consider a better furnace, costing $40,more economical. Commercial drying houses, i. e., thosepurchasing green fruit for drying, are on the same generalplan as the farm evaporators, but larger. A MODERN MAPLE SUGAR HOUSE The sugar house of A. J. Harmon of Ohio, shown inFigures 360 and 361, is sixteen by thirty-six feet, twelvefeet high, with syrup and packing room in front,twelve by sixteen feet, with room for sap pailsdirectly above. These rooms are ceiled with a tight parti-tion between evaporator rooms, except doors, and there-fore exclude all steam from the tins stored in them. Thehouse is built on a side hill, so that sap can be drawn fromgnthering wagon or sled tn store tank, there to evaporator 370 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS without any pumping or handling. The camp consists oi1000 sugar maples, a large proportion being thrifty sec-ond growth, set in orchard style about forty years Fig. 360—AN OHIO MAPLE SUGAR HOUSE
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