NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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We had hoped that Mr. Trtston, of Stockport, 

 nild, before this time, have obliged us with some 

 marks on this subject, as he informs us [N. E. Far- 

 : r. Xo. 23, p. 182,] that he has " had upwards of 

 I -; y years experience and observation in manufactur- 

 uple sugar in the same orchard,'" and " had 

 its of publishing some directions for public bene- 

 ■ i!^c. We still wish that the gentleman would 

 ke our paper the vehicle of some remarks on this 

 ic. But as the season for manufacturing that arti- 

 has nearly arrived, we proceed to give such inform- 

 on as it is in our power to commuaicate ; and shall 

 gratified if it proves useful to some who are engaged 

 this important kind of domestic manufacture. 

 The following directions were obligingly furnished 

 by Henry Lake, Jr. Esq. of Rockingliam, \'ermont, 

 has had much experience in the art to which they 



r. 



Scald your buckets for catching sap before tapping 



trees. 



'Hie sap sliould be kept clean from dirt through the 

 cess of boiling. 



Avoid leaving your sap long in an iron kettle, as 



rust will give it a dark color. 



^\ hen nearly boiled down to sirup (or thin molas- 

 ) a little lime thrown into the kettle Avill be of use. 



At this stage of boiling as well as in sugaring off, 

 e should be taken to avoid heating the top of the 

 tie too hot, or any other way burning, as it will in- 

 e the color, as well as the flavor of the sugar. 

 ' When the sirup is well boiled down, tuni it while 



into a clean wooden vessel, let it stand two or 

 ee days and settle : then turn it carefully from the 

 t at the bottom and strain it. 

 ' Hang it over a gentle fire, and when it is warm, 



in one pint of milk to four or five gallons sirup, 

 ich will rise as it begins to boil, and must be taken 

 with a skimmer. 



■ If you wish to make your sugar very nice, cool it 

 il one half or two thirds will grain, turn it hot into 

 ght cask; let it stand undisturbed in a cellar, or 

 er cool place until it is grained at the bottom. — 

 'n off the molasses and turn the cask bottom up- 



ds over some vessel to catch what will drain out : 

 it stand as long as any will drop, then set your cask 

 ight, and what moisture remains will settle to the 

 torn, leaving the top dry and of a superior quality. 



If you wish to make dry sugar without draining, 



e arc various modes of ascertaining when it is boil- 

 sufficiently ; perhaps as sure a method is to drop 

 le on snow and let it cool ; il' it is brittle as rosin it 

 ufficiently boiled." 



ON BOILING IIAPLE SAP BY STEAM. 

 'At. Preston requests to know " whether there is not 

 etter mode of boiling the sap of the sugar maple 

 .n in iron kettles over the fire ?" and says, " I am 



to these inquiries by the circumstance of a young 

 n, lately from an Eastern State, having erected a 

 oden distillery that is boiled by steam conveyed into 



bottom of tlie cistern by wooden pipes from a small 

 a kettle, set in an arch some thirty feet distant."* 

 5 have given in the New England Farmer, No. 5, p. 



39, the mode of heating liquids by steam, adopted 



Count Rumford, which was by conducting steam 

 the liquid which it is required to heat. We have 

 n other modes described, by which the steam em 

 iced the outside of the vessels which contained the 

 aor to be heated. These modes may be useful, in 

 .ny cases, where boiling or heating is the objtct, 

 ihout regard to evaporation. When steam is inlro- 

 ced into a liquid, it is condensed, imparts caloric to 



liquid, but gives no more heat than what it had 

 STiously received from the fire which gave it the 

 ,te of steam. In condensing, however, or changing 

 m a gaseous to a liquid form, it increases the quan- 

 of the liquid to which it imparts its caloric, and 



probably adds as much to the liquid by its condensa- 

 tion, as it causes it to bo diminished by evaporation. 

 We arc inclined, therefore, to believe, where evapora- 

 tion is the object, it may be as well to apply the fire 

 lirectly to the vessel containing the liquor to be evap- 

 orated, as to make use of the agency of steam. In this, 

 however, we may be in an error, and if so should be 

 happy to be corrected. 



The communication of Mr. Pickering for this day's 

 paper, and that of Mr. Kenrick in our paper No. '.iO, 

 will, we doubt not, receive the attention which their 

 importance merits. We do not regret the circumstance 

 of those gentlemen differing in opinion upon some to- 

 pics. By friendly collisions of this kind, the truth is 

 often elicited. 



A communication from our good friend in Stockport, 

 Pa. was duly received, and would have been published 

 before this time, had not the Editor wished to accom- 

 pany its publication with some remarks which he has 

 not yet found leisure to complete. We hope neither 

 that gentleman, nor any otlicr, who may oblige us with 

 their observations, will consider their favors as neglect- 

 ed or ungratefully received, when circumstances may 

 have caused a delay in their publication. 



FARMER SUMMARY OF NEWS. 



•See A*. E. Fanner, .Vo, 23, p. 133 



CONGRESS adjourned on Monday last. — An ab- 

 stract of their last weeks preceedings will be given in 

 our next. 



FOREIGN. — A letter from an American ofScer, now 

 iu the Mediterranean says : " I observe a vast deal in 

 the public prints, relative to Greek affairs, and a pretty 

 general indisposition to credit the accounts of their 

 success. But whatever may be said to the contrary by 

 the " Holy Alliance" and their advocates, I know that 

 the cause is going on gloriously, and if they are not in- 

 terfered with, there is every rational ground for believ- 

 ing that they will succeed, if not to their immediate 

 and full emancipation, at least to the great betterment 

 of their condition." 



An American gentleman, Mr. Gaillard, from Charles- 

 ton, was butchered in a most shocking manner, not 

 long since in Havana, by pirates, for having observed 

 " that Commodore Porter would soon be among them." 



DOMESTIC— Thursday, the 3d of April, is to be 

 observed as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer in 

 Massachusetts and Maine. 



Fire. — On Thursday night an unfinished brick house 

 in Purchase St. was destroyed by fire. Owing to the 

 spirited exertions of the engine-men and citizens, and 

 plenty of water, the other houses in the block were 

 preserved. 



On the Istinst. a dwelling house in Hartford, Con. 

 owned and occupied by Mr. Uriah Cadwell, was de- 

 stroyed by fire, together with nearly all his furniture 

 a.id provisions. 



A house in Thompson, Con. occupied by a Mr. Lee, 

 was lately burnt, and Mrs. Lee perished in the flames. 



A medical writer, says the N. J. Eagle, attributes the 

 great increase of Apoplexy to the wearing of cravats, 

 and endeavors to prove his theory by the observation, 

 that women who generally go with their necks uncov- 

 ered, are rarely subject to this disease. 



Four animals of the Lynx species were killed in 

 Craftsbury, Vt. in the month of January. Of one it 

 is remarked, that the whole of its intestines, when ex- 

 tended to their full length, measured but six feet two 

 inches in length. 



Appropriate present to John Q. Adams. — A few days' 

 since, an enormous Cod Fish, weighing eighty-four 

 pounds, was caught by some Marblehead Fishermen. — 

 On its being landed, it was at once agreed to present 

 it to John QriNCY Adams, as an appropriate testimoni- 

 al of the gratitude of Fishermen for his most able and 

 triumphant defence of the American right to the Fish- 

 eries, in the negotiations of Ghent. The fish was ac- 

 cordingly frozen with great care, in order to preserve it, 

 incased in a box of ice, and transmitted, with a letter 

 from the donors, to the Hon. Secretary of State. 



Etsix RtgUter. 



The Anniversary of the Sth of Jan. was celebrated 

 with much spirit at Nashville.— Gen. Jackson was 

 present at the celebration, and from the complexion of 

 the toasts, we should think (savs the Boston Gazette) 

 he has a strong disposition to' climb the Presidential 

 lailder. 



Twelve millions four hundred and seventy eight 

 thousand Cigars were impoited the last year into the 

 United States. It is calculated, says the Philadel- 

 phia Democratic Press, that the \alue of all sorts of ci- 

 gars consumed in the United .'rtates in one year, is 

 about five millions of dollars. 



A woman in New-York, aged 109 years, while on 

 her death-bed, acknowledged that eighli/ one years 

 ago, she strangled an infant child. 



A New- York paper says, " The effect of the pressure 

 of the Branch upon the local Banks is too serious to 

 be named I" 



PRICES OF COUNTRY PRODUCE, S:c. 

 [Revised and corrected every Friday.] 



ASHES, pot, 1st qual. . . . 



pearl do 



BEANS, white, 



BEEF, mess, 200 cwt. . . . 



cargo. No. 1 



" No. 2 



BUTTER, inspect. 1st qual. . 

 " 2d qual. . 

 small kegs, family, 

 CHEESE, new milk .... 



FLAX 



FLAX SEED 



FLOUR, Baltimore, superfine, 

 Genessec .... 

 Rye, best .... 



GRAIN, Rye 



Corn 



Barley 



Oats 



HOGS' LARD, 1st sort . . 



HOPS, No. 1, 



LIME, 



OIL, Linseed, American 



PLAISTER PARIS .... 



PORK, Navy Mess .... 



Bone Middlings . 



Cargo, Ko. 1, . . . 



Cargo, No. 2, . . . 



SEEDS, Herd's Grass . . • 



Clover 



WOOL, ftleriuo, full blood, washed 

 do. do. unwashed 



do. 3-4 washed 



do. 1-2 do. 



Native .... do. 

 Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 

 do. Spinning, 1st sort 



PROVISION- MARKET. 

 BEEF, best pieces .... 



PORK, fresh 



VEAL 



MUTTON 



POULTRY, 



BUTTER, keg & tub ... 

 lump, best . . 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, 



hidian, 



POTATOES, 



CIDER, liquor, 



HAY, best, 



ton. 



busli 

 bbl. 



lb. 



bush 

 bbl. 



bush 



lb. 



cask 

 gal 

 ton 

 bbl 



hush 

 lb. 



fROM 



D. C 



145 00 



155 00 



90 



9 00 



8 00 



C 00 



14 



1-2 



16 



lb. 



doz 

 bush 



bbl. 

 ton. 



8 



90 



7 25 



7 50 



4 50 



80 



7'i 



61 



44 



9 



10 



1 2, 

 6 



3 00 

 12 00 

 14 50 

 12 00 

 11 00 



2 25 



8 

 50 

 40 

 45 

 40 



47 



If. 

 20 

 20 

 PO 

 80 

 37 

 1 50 

 20 00 



TO 



D. C. 



150 00 



156 00 



1 00 



9 50 



8 50 



6 50 

 15 

 13 

 17 



9 



9 



1 00 



7 50 



5 00 



70 



47 



12 



1 50 

 70 



3 25 

 12 50 

 15 00 

 12 50 

 11 50 



2 50 



9 

 60 

 45 

 47 

 45 

 40 

 60 

 50 



10 



6 



8 



7 



9 



17 



22 



24 



85 



24 00 



STRAW CUTTERS: 



One of the Farmers best Implements, this season. 



ON hand and for sale at the AoRicuLTrRAL Es- 

 TABLiSHMF.sT, No. 20, Merchant's Row — Hand 

 and Machine STRAW CUTTERS, some very low 

 prices. 



0:5=One ENGLISH MACHINE, which wiU be stiU 

 for half the cost and charges. 



Several HAND MACHINES, suitable for private 

 stables, Boston, March 1. 



