. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . de from the sap which flows from thewhite or sap wood ; and the darkest colored product comes from the sap of theduramen or heart wood.* There is a variety of hard maple known as the black maple•(Acer nigruni) which is in high favor with sugar makers, many of whom assert that itsproduct is far superior in both quantity and quality to that of the regular species. In the details of sugar making there has been a great advance beyond the simple,primitive methods of earlier years. Then the sap was conduct
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . de from the sap which flows from thewhite or sap wood ; and the darkest colored product comes from the sap of theduramen or heart wood.* There is a variety of hard maple known as the black maple•(Acer nigruni) which is in high favor with sugar makers, many of whom assert that itsproduct is far superior in both quantity and quality to that of the regular species. In the details of sugar making there has been a great advance beyond the simple,primitive methods of earlier years. Then the sap was conducted from the spouts intorude troughs of basswood. These troughs were from two to three feet long, made bysplitting the log in halves and hollowing out the flat side. The sap was then gatheredin pails and carried to the fire, each man carrying two pails suspended from the ends ofa neck yoke fitted to his shoulders. There was seldom any main receptacle for storingthe sap, but it was carried to the boiling kettle as fast as it was needed.* Timothy Wheeler. Garden and Forest. Vol. VI, p. w D CO rfi Lj fc O 1-1 K ^ <£ ■j! 7 « o w h « e ** h h <! E5 Pk a <J o CO o Yl 0 H X H O (5 1-1 ^ &O 0Q tn Z. 0 a ^ < 7. a s H FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 315 In boiling the liquid and reducing it to sugar, a large potash kettle was generallyused. This was hung on one end of a long pole, to the other end of which weightswere attached as a balance, so that the kettle could be easily swung off or on the fire asneeded. The fire, kindled with strips of birch bark, was replenished with large sticksor small logs of green wood, that were cut as fast as wanted, few of the sugar makerstaking the trouble to provide a stock of dry fuel for the purpose. No shed or housewas used, but the work was carried on in the open air, in all kinds of weather, rain orsnow, wind or calm, storm or sunshine. Smoke, steam and falling cinders surroundedthe boiling kettle, discoloring and flavoring the p
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