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board well fitted in so as to exclude the air from the sugar. After i^ 

 has done or nearly done draining, I dissolve it and sugar it off again 

 going through the same process in clarifying and draining as before 



MR. white's statement. 



Statement of Wm. E. White, of Walton, Delaware county, of his 

 process of making maple sugar, of which the State awarding commit- 

 tee remark, that next to that of J. Woodworth, it is the best that ever 

 came under their observation. 



The sap of the sample 1 have presented, was strained and put in 

 sheet iron pans, placed on an arch and boiled. Three barrels of sap 

 were evaporated to three gallons of syrup. 



Mode of Clarifying. — Stir half a pint of milk and the white of two 

 eggs, into three gallons of syrup ; then place it in a sheet iron pan 

 on a stove until it boils. Strain it and boil it until it will grain, 

 then let it stand about six hours before it is drained. 



Method of Draining. — The drain is made with four pieces of a 

 board, converging to a point ; the molasses drawn off at the bottom j 

 a wet flannel cloth is kept on the sugar three days. 



