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Maple Sugar. Mrs. George P. Hooper of Paris, says : 

 The trees from which the sap was drawn, were of the second 

 growth, and were from one foot tot)ne and one-half foot in diameter. 

 It takes about twelve quarts of sap to make one pound of sugar. I 

 find the sap of young trees does not make so much sugar to the 

 gallon as trees of the first growth ; and that the sap of trees growing 

 on low land is not so rich in saccharine matter as those on high land. 

 The sap was boiled down in a common iron boiler. I made about 

 twenty-five pounds of sugar from twenty trees. It was clarified 

 with milk, which was poured into the syrup a little before it was 

 reduced to the point at which it would grain, after which it was 

 carefully skimmed, and all the matters that rose to the surface was 

 carefully removed. After attaining the graining point, it was re- 

 moved from the fire and stirred till it became dry. This broke up 

 the crystals and made it very fine, like meal. 



Abigail Hooper. 

 South Paris, Oct. 6, 1857. 



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