262 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The draft of Messrs. Spears & Plumb’s Mill was, both trials, 
to the draft of Mr. Lee’s as 2 is to 3, at least. 
Messrs. Spears & Plumb extracted 41 1-2 pounds of juice, 
and Mr. Lee 48 pounds. The first labored under the same 
difficulty as on yesterday, of the expressed juice overflowing 
from the channel of the Mill and wasting. 
Mr. Lee extracted 48 pounds of juice. 
The juice was delivered to Mr. Lee for evaporation upon 
Hedge’s Evaporating Pans, and raised to a boiling point upon 
a pan over the fire, and immediately burnt and spoiled, when 
the operators abandoned it. 
From the same kind of canes, about a hundred pounds of 
juice was extracted, partly by Messrs Lee, and partly by Mesrs. 
Spears & Plumb, and boiled upon their (Cook’s) Evaporator, 
and a very fine article of Syrup made from it. There was no 
burning in the pan, nor unpleasant flavor to the Syrup, though 
it was darker than the Syrup made on Thursday, by the same 
parties. The Committee are unanimous in the opinion, that 
Cook’s Evaporator is the best article which has ever been pre¬ 
sented to the farmer for the evaporation of sugar. 
The Committee have awarded the First Premium to Messrs. 
Spears & Plumb for the best complete apparatus. 
The Committee are well aware that goodw r ork has been done 
with Hedge’s lyoiling, Pans, though this time the persons ope¬ 
rating it have failed; but by reason of the efficiency of their 
Mill, we have go-iyfluded to award to them the Society’s Second 
Premium. .. ' “ 
All of which is Respectfully submitted, &c., 
J. G. KNAPP, Oh’n. 
