. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 651. Old-iashioned "arch" and "kettles". one to two barrels of sap per hour, according to the skill and diligence of the firing. The corru- gated evaporator, 4 x 16 feet, shown in Fig. 652, with good wood and good firing will evaporate five barrels per hour into the finest eleven-pound syrup ready for the market, with half the fuel. Forty to fifty gallons of sap make one eleven-pound gallon of syrup in Ohio. Details of the sugar-making processes. Spouts.—The forms of spouts used by writer, after trials of many sort
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 651. Old-iashioned "arch" and "kettles". one to two barrels of sap per hour, according to the skill and diligence of the firing. The corru- gated evaporator, 4 x 16 feet, shown in Fig. 652, with good wood and good firing will evaporate five barrels per hour into the finest eleven-pound syrup ready for the market, with half the fuel. Forty to fifty gallons of sap make one eleven-pound gallon of syrup in Ohio. Details of the sugar-making processes. Spouts.—The forms of spouts used by writer, after trials of many sorts, are the conical (Fig. 653), made of heavy tin, and the flanged (Fig. 654). Spouts are on sale at hardware stores in the maple regions and are advertised in agricultural papers. The spout in Fig. 653 is cheaper in first cost, but the one in Fig. 654 is more durable and oft'ers less obstruction to the flow of the sap. The writer uses the spout in Fig. 653 in a three-eighths-inch hole the first half or third of the season, then rims the holes with a one-half-inch curve-lip Cook bit and uses the spout in Fig. The rimming freshens the drying hole and increases the flow of sap, and does not wound and injure the tree as boring a new hole; and the partly soured spout is removed. In Ohio, the tapping should be-. Fig. 652. A modem evaporator and iron arch. gin the first bright, warm day after February 15, and the season lasts sometimes until April 10, or as long as frosty nights or snow-storms are fol- lowed by warm days ; hence the need of freshening or rimming the holes and removing the partly soured spouts. The spout shown in Fig. 653 has now been made heavier and longer, so that it answers for seven-sixteenths and one-half inch re- tapping. Buckets.—The buckets should be of "IX" tin, very slightly smaller at the bottom than at the top so as to " nest" into each other, in nests of twenty or more, for convenience in handling. They should hold twelve qua
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