28 SUPPLEMENT. 
heit will be reduced to something over twelve gallons, or enough to fill 
one of the sugar moulds. 
When the day’s boiling is completed, put the contents of tub No. 4 
into a sugar mould or keg, having previously plugged the hole. Set 
it in a warm place, in no case colder than 60° Fahrenheit, if 70° or 
80°, so much the better. This completes the day’s work. 
When cold, the next day, it will be a solid mass of crystallized 
sugar. Then withdraw the stopper, set the mould on an earthen pot 
or pail; in from four to seven days the molasses will have ceased to 
drain out; then turn over the mould upon a clean board or table, 
strike the rim smartly once or twice, and the sugar will slide from the 
mould inasolid mass. Break it up with a shovel, and it is fit for 
use. The contents of this mould should be from forty to fifty pounds 
of dry, yellow sugar, and about four gallons of excellent molasses will 
have dripped from it into the jar. 
If preferred, the sugar making may here terminate; but, as the 
purifying power of the bone black filter is not yet exhausted, and as 
the whole labor and expense of preparation have been already in- 
curred, it will be best to continue at least a second and third day. 
SECOND DAY. 
The process will be in all respects a repetition of the first day’s 
work, and the result will be to fill an additional sugar mould or keg. 
THIRD DAY. 
The process will be a repetition of the above ; but the filter being 
now exhausted, after the third day, it will be necessary to change the 
bone black. Before emptying the filter, or stopping the third day’s 
work, however, pass cold water through the filter, which, so long as it 
runs sweet enough to mark 3° Beaumé, is to be added to the juice of 
the upper joints, of which we are about to speak. 
MOLASSES. 
At the close of the sugar making, pass through the mill the upper 
joints of the canes, previously laid aside. Add to the juice the liquid 
portion of the scum in third pail, together with the washings of the 
