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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
JUNE 20 
for t!)e Doitng. 
MAPLE SUGAR.—IV. 
JOSEPHINE C. POOLE. 
UNT Maria had not been idle 
while she listened, and had 
spread upon the table two or 
three large pans and a lot. of 
little patty pans, round, dia- 
mond and heart-shaped. 
Uncle had stirred the sugar in 
the pots as it boiled and grew 
thicker and it was already all graiued and 
ready to mould. He poured it into the pans 
while westoodaround him enjoying the sight. 
Harley had taken out a flat pan full, before 
uncle had beguu to stir it to grain and form 
sugar. He let it cool and it looked like but¬ 
ter-scotch, such as we make at home. When 
almost stiff, he took itfrom the pan aud pulled 
it, just as molasses candy is pulled to make it 
white. We all wanted to pull some, too. 
Maude soon blistered her Angers, and Fred 
decided he liked his well enough raw, so Har¬ 
ley bad to do it all himself, and it looked very 
much like cream candy when he had finished. 
He then cut it in short sticks and laid it on 
sheets of fools cap paper, which he kept for 
that purpose. Howard found it was all for 
us, and proposed we should keep it to take 
home with us, but Harley said it would not 
keep as it was theu, but would soon turn to 
sugar, so we must eat it now, and lie would 
make us some the daj' before we returned to 
the city. Just then we felt as if we had eaten 
about enough to last for quite a time, aud, in¬ 
deed, did not think we should want any kind 
of food very soon, but were, oh, so very 
thirsty! 
Uncle had put the kegs of sirup on the sled 
to take up to the house, aud we were all ready 
to ride with him, for we were tired, yet thor¬ 
oughly satisfied with our day’s experience. 
We visited the “sugar bush” again several 
times during our pleasant stay in Bloomfield, 
aud one day we went with father to call on 
some of his old friends, who took us to their 
“sugar works” and treated us with hot sirup. 
One old lady showed us some real loaf sugar— 
hard and white as Acker & Merrall’s. It was 
a secret how she clarified it, and she would 
tell no one, but Aunt Maria said she thought 
sheep's blood was used in the process. The 
lady was very proud of her sugar, and showed 
us a silver medal given to her at the State 
Fair—being the first premium for the best 
maple sugar on exhibition. 
When we returned home at the end of the 
week we brought with us a keg of sirup, sev¬ 
eral cakes of sugar, aud Howard carried in 
his hand a package of pulled candy, which was 
all his own. He was going to take it to school, 
and give the boys a taste, aud also tell them 
he “had been where it grew.” 
Upon Maude’s birthday two weeks later she 
invited some of her school mates to come to 
our house in the afternoon, and we treated 
them to a grand “sugaring off.” We did just 
as near like the Bloomfield sugar-makers as 
possible—boiled a big kettle of sirup—eating 
it while warm, stirring it so as to grain it in 
our saucers, fixed a straw “blower" and made 
white wax. As the snow was all gone, we 
dropped some into ice water to form “clear 
wax,” and made candy to pull. We ourselves 
enjoyed the fun very much, but after all was 
over and our friends departed, we felt their 
utter lack of sympathy and appreciation of 
the spirit of the entertainment. 
One guest had fouud it a little too sweet: 
another took a spoonful while it was boiling 
hot and burned her inoutb, while a third said 
“it made her tooth ache,” and they all seemed 
to wonder at our pleasure in the sport. W hen 
we talked the matter over that night wftb 
the rest of the family, it was decided that 
one’s love for maple sugar aud its makiug, 
was increased a great deal when one had seen 
it made in the old home place, and bad heard 
stories in their childhood, how father and 
mother had enjoyed it when they were young. 
We were all unanimous in our expressions of 
satisfaction that such was the case in our 
little circle, aud that we should never forgot 
our pleasant experience in the “sugar bush.” 
NOTES FROM THE COUSINS. 
Edwin I> Bkown writes, in April, from 
Alabama, that his garden, 50x100 feet was 
already growing nicely. He has onions, 
lettuce, radishes, beets, turnips, cabbages, 
to . atoes,peppers and last, but not least, plants 
from the Rural seeds. lie will report success 
or failure as the case may be when the Lima 
beans ripeu. __ 
Claudia Stockl’ord is 10 years old, and she 
has been, until one year ago, a cripple, but 
was helped then by a surgical operation, which 
straightened her feet. She writes that in her 
papa’s garden, they raised four rows of pop¬ 
corn 88 feet long, and gathered a bushel of pop¬ 
corn. A mink killed three of their 22 Plymouth 
Rock chickens, but before it got any more, 
her papa caught the mink. 
Martie J. Dodge writes of a snow storm in 
New York last Winter, so deep that a train 
was blockaded for three days, and the wood, 
coal and water were all used up on the train, 
60 the men had to melt suow to get water; 
aud Martie’suncle hauled them a load of wood. 
E. J. Burdick writes from Colorado; he is 
a new Cousiu, and until this year has not been 
on a farm but in the mines; he likes farming 
very much. There are many things in Col 
orado that the Eastern Cousins do not have; 
he will write of some of them in his next 
letter. _ 
Orchard Dell is the name of the farm on 
which Minnie Connine lives in Michigan. The 
Winter was so cold, Minnie could not go to 
school. Mercury went down 38° below zero. 
Her father keeps bees and wintered them in 
the cellar. _ _ 
Edith L Porteus writes that her father sold 
a load of White Elephant Potatoes this Win¬ 
ter, the product of the single potato sent out 
by tbe Rural three years ago. She has two 
pet cats, Buttercup aud Dick; on her birthday 
she received a box of water color paiuts, and 
she sketches fruits from the Rural and paints 
them. __ 
Willis A. Marvis had a red squirrel, which 
he kept in a cage; a dog came and tore the 
cage to pieces and ate tbe squirrel, he writes^ 
his brother Fred shot tbe dog. Willis has 
three sheep of his own and they are doing 
well. __ 
Leonard Sweely is a boy ten years old, be 
writes that last Summer he built ten tons of 
hay on the wagon for his Pa, and drove the 
horses with every load. He drove tbe reaper^ 
to cut ten acres of oats, and helps on the farm 
all he can. His Pa gave him a calf two 
years ago, and it is still his, he intends to sell 
it aDd use the money to furnish his bed room, 
and what money is left after that is done, he 
will save. 
Alice Snyder writes from California, that 
she had a calla lily in bloom in March, that 
had stood out doors all Winter and then bore 
six blossoms; at tbe same time geraniums and 
other flowers were blooming, and lettuce and 
green peas were ready for use. 
Willie Hulburt writes of a melon he raised 
in Missouri, weighing 48 pounds, and he has 
been helping to clear some land this Winter 
where he hopes to raise more large melons, this 
season. Two years ago he gathered, from a 
seedling tree, a peach that measured 11 inches 
in circumference, and if he has any this year 
be generously wishes that he could share them 
with Uncle Mark. 
Edith M. Cairns is eight years old, and has 
been a member of our Club for three roars. 
She writes that she is going to school her 
second term now, and that she has a good 
teacher, and a strict singiDg teacher. Her 
little brother, three years old. got a beetle in 
his ear, but the doctor took it out. 
Three of the Cousins, Ella, Tullula, aud 
Mary Heron write from Texas. They bought 
4,<XK) yellow French silkworm eggs in Janu¬ 
ary, and it they were successful with them 
promised to report, but if they did not suc¬ 
ceed they thought “the less said about it the 
better.” They planned to take notes of their 
work this year, as they go along, so they may 
be able to make an estimate of ail they have 
done at the end of the season. 
■- •*« -- 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Uncle Mark: Please may I join the Y. H. 
C., and be one of the Cousins? 1 am 11 years 
old, and I have to go a mile to school. We 
live on the south side of the Mohawk River, 
on a farm of 18U acres. We keep 23 cows, 
six calves, a yoke of oxen, and one team of 
horses. We have abo 80 hens and five turkeys. 
1 did not have very good luck in raising 
turkeys last year. How should they be treated 
when young? What should they be fed? Pa 
plauted the Rural seeds, and we find the Rural 
Union Corn the largest we ever raised,and as 
we had no frost until late, some of it ripened. 
The peas aDd tomatoes were also very nice. 
We planted 35 kinds of potatoes some of them 
weighed over two-aud-a-balf pounds. 
Your nephew, 
Herkimer Co., N. Y. rush lewis. 
[You are very welcome Rush as a member 
of our Club. Your letter has been waiting its 
turn so long, that your little turkeys are 
already growing fiuely I hope. Young turkeys 
should be kept out of the grass when wet with 
rain or dew. They should not be handled; 
their food for several weeks should be of hard 
boiled eggs, curds and dry bread soaked in 
milk; when they get older, cooked meal, 
potatoes and meat scraps will keep them 
thriving. I hope you may be very successful 
this season.— uncle mark.] 
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