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quarts, ^dth the thermometer at 85 degrees in 

 the juice : the saccharometer stood 241 degrees. 

 We boiled the juice until it run together on the 

 rim of the ladle, and hung in a transparent sheet 

 half an inch below it before falling, and this in 

 two and a half hours. The result was six quarts 

 of choice syrup. The next day I repeated the 

 experiment on a larger scale, with equal success ; 

 and I have brought to the club enough of the 

 syrup to enable every member to try it, and judge 

 of its quality. All who have tested it agree 

 that it is equal to the best that we get from New 

 Orleans. In these last boilings I put a table- 

 spoonful of lime-water, prepared as before, to 

 every ten gallons. The whole process of clarify- 

 ing and boiling was carried through in the same 

 pot, and that very unsuitable from its depth. I 

 measured the grain from a number of heads, and 

 the result was an average of a gill from each. I 

 weighed a half a peck of maturer grain after 

 several days' exposure to the sun ; — it weighed 

 four and three fourths pounds, equal to thirty- 

 eight pounds per bushel. I weighed twenty of 

 the best cane cut for forage, after it was cured 

 sufficiently to house. They weighed twenty-four 

 pounds, equal to thirty thousand pounds for 

 twenty-five thousand canes ; which I think might 



