jei6- 0-0

2. Two iron ladles, with bowls of a gallon, to shift

the sap from one kettle to another, 1- 5-0

3. Four screw augers, ^ to | inch, for boring the trees, 0- 6-0

4. Ten buckets with covers, of three gallons each for

collecting the sap, and yokes for carrying two

between the shoulders, 2-10-0

5. Sixteen hundred wooden troughs, of three gallons

each, to receive the sap from the trees, three.pence

each, 20- 0-0

WESTERN NEW- YORK. 1123

N. E. One mvin, acquainted with the business may cut down wood and make 20 troughs in a day (or eight days work of ten men.)

6. Six wooden troughs, dug out from lasge timber, hke

a canoe, for holding the sap, 4-10-0

In a new country, where cisterns cannot be had, such large troughs, made of well seasoned timber, (of which there is vast abundance, of an uncommon size, wherever the maple tree grows) answer the purpose very well. Upon the top of this cistern there should be a linen strainer fixed, through which the sap brought in the buckets should pass.

7. A shed and walls for the fire places, to be erected

of stone or clay (of both which there are plenty in the country) of sufficient length for the 16 boilers ; which shed should be covered so as to keep out the weather, 10-10-0

8. Sugar moulds may be made of seasoned boards,

until earthen ones can be procured, 1-10-0

9. Pickers (so called by the sugar-bakers,) to run up