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and sugar it off. I use to clarify, say one hundred pound? 

 of sugar, the whites of four or five eggs well-beaten, about 

 one quart of new milk, and a spoonful of saleratus, all 

 well mixed with the syrup before it is scalding hot. I then 

 make a moderate fire directly under the caldron, until the 

 scum is all raised, then skim it off 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, leaving it so damp that 

 it will drain a little, until it is well granulated ; I then put 

 it into boxes made smallest at the bottom, that will hold 

 from fifty to seventy pounds, having a thin piece of board 

 fitted in two or three 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. 1 

 put on the top of the sugar in the box a clean damp 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 be- 

 fore. 



I do certify, that the above is a correct statement of my 

 mode of making maple sugar. 



JOEL WOODWORTH. 



WHICH SIDE OF THE HOUSE TO PLOUGH, PLANT ORCHARDS, 

 TRUCK-PATCHES, ETC. 



Very few persons, particularly emigrants, when they 

 settle in a new country, appear to know which side of 

 their dwelling-house to plough, to avoid sickness, and very 

 many farmers, in our older settlements, appear to be in 

 want of the same information as to where they should 

 avoid planting orchards, truck-patches, etc., to save their 

 families from summer and autumn fevers. 



Never plant them, when you can possibly avoid it, on 



