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In locating a sugar house it is well to place it on sloping ground, so that the sap 

 will run by gravity, from the delivery sleigh to the receiving or storage tank. The 

 house, whether large or small, should be shingled, clapboarded and lined inside and 

 overhead with narrow, matched "ceiling." The floor should be laid with narrow, 

 matched boards, to facilitate scrubbing, and promote that cleanliness which is 

 necessary in handling any article of food. There should be a ventilator shaft over 

 the evaporator, extending through the roof, to permit the free escape of the steam, 



INTERIOR OF EVAPORATOR HOUSE. 



and with the slats so arranged that, while the steam can escape freely, no rain or snow 

 can enter. There must be enough windows to furnish plenty of light. Dirt and 

 darkness are too apt to accompany each other. 



Where a large number of trees are tapped, 1,500 or more, and a large business is 

 carried on, it will pay in the end to have a house with two compartments and a wood- 

 shed. The evaporator room should form the middle compartment. Adjoining it on 

 one end should be the room for sugaring off and preparing the product for the 

 market; on the opposite end should be the woodshed. All three should be under one 

 roof, and in one continuous building of the same width throughout. For the 

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