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clean, taking care not to let it boil so as to rise in the kettle before I 

 have done skimming it. I then sugar it off, I'^aving it so damp that it 

 will drain a little. I let it remain in the kettle until it is well granu- 

 lated ; I then put it into boxes made smallest at the bottom, that will 

 hold from 50 to 80 pounds having a thin piece of board fitted in 2 or 3 

 inches above the bottom, which is bored full of small holes to let the 

 molasses drain through, which I keep drawn off by a tap through the 

 bottom. I put on the top of the sugar in the box a damp clean cloth, 

 and over that a board well fitted in, so as to exclude the air from the 

 sugar. After it has done or nearly done draining, I dissolve it and 

 sugar it off again, going through with the same process in clarifying 

 and draining as before. 



Watertown, Sept. 12th, 1845. 



MOSES EAMES, 



This sample of sugar was made in the month of March, 1845, thus : 

 The sap was boiled to the consistence of good syrup, then taken out 

 and strained, put into a wooden vessel to cool and settle, and then it 

 was drawn off and heated in a kettle to ninety-eight degrees ; then add- 

 €d one ounce of saleratus. The whites of four eggs, and two quarts of 

 milk, were dissolved and beat together ; then keep up the heat until all 

 the scum has risen ; then take off the scum before it boils, and boil 

 until it will form a wax on snow or in cold water ; then take it from 

 the fire and put it into tin pans to cool, and when the grain is well 

 formed, place the sugar in tunnel shaped boxes to drain, with a wet 

 flannel cloth on the top, and cover it with a board to keep off the air ; 

 let the molasses drain all out. The same operation is done again by 

 dissolving the sugar when cleansing, &c. 



For more remarks see H. L. Ellsworth's report for 1844, page 297. 



Rutland, September 16th, 1845. 



WM. E. WHITE. 



Treatment of Sap. — The tubs are kept sweet and clean. Smoke, 

 ashes, or dirt of any kind will injure the color and grain of the sugar. 

 Boil the sap without delay, straining before boiling. Use sheet iron 

 boilers placed on arches, boil three barrels of sap to five gallons of syrup. 

 For cleansing, stir the white of three eggs and one pint of milk into 

 five gallons of syrup, place it in a sheet iron pan on a stove to boil, then 

 strain it through flannel, then boil it till it grains. When grained pour 

 it in a drain formed of boards, tapering to the bottom with holes for 

 the molasses to escape. 



Forest Hall, Walton, Del. County. 



