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in the hoop, add, and press as before, and the third day fill the 

 hoop, and press till the next day ; take from the liooj) and put a 

 bandage around the cheese, put in the screen, then turn and rub 

 twice a day. 



Maple Sugar. 



Sugar is one of the luxuries, if not one of the necessaries of life. 

 That extracted from the maple is superior to any other, and its 

 manufacture has become quite an important branch of domestic in- 

 dustry, — therefore your committee would make a few suggestions in 

 regard to the process. First, the sap should be caught in well 

 cleaned vessels, free from decayed leaves, bark, or any other sub- 

 stance which will change its color. Second, it should be boiled to 

 syrup as soon as practicable. Third, care should be used that it 

 may not be scorched. For this purpose the boiler should be so ar- 

 ranged that the fire cannot come in contact with the vessel much 

 above the liquid within. By an observance of these rules we cannot 

 fail to produce clean, white, well granulated sugar, while inattention 

 and carelessness produces quite the reverse. 



Needle Work and Fancy Articles. 



The following suggestions were embodied in the report of the 

 Committee on Needle Work and Fancy Articles : 



Your committee would further claim the indulgence of the Society, 

 while we endeavor to call attention to some items connected with 

 this department, and in our crude way, throwing out some ideas 

 which had suggested themselves to our mind. 



In taking a cursory view of the subject it would seem that this 

 department was a very trivial affair, scarcely worth the serious 

 attention of any one and altogether beneatli the notice of the sterner 

 sex. Yet when we take into account the zest with which skill aids 

 affection in ministering to their physical and spiritual requirements, 

 and the importance attached thereto — even by the higher officers of 

 this institution, to the onerous duties of which they have appointed 

 a greater number than to all other household manufactures, it loses 

 its insignificance and assumes a really responsible aspect. 



