y. The sediment is strained off and boiled down to make
molasses.

The following is from a Massachusetts paper:--

The maple produces the best sugar that we have from any plant.
Almost every one admires its taste. It usually sells in this market
(Boston) nearly twice as high as other brown sugar. Had care been
taken from the first settlement of the country to preserve the sugar
maple, and proper attention been given to the cultivation of this
tree, so valuable for fuel, timber, and ornament, besides the
abundant yield of saccharine juice, we could now produce in New
England sugar enough for our own consumption, and not be dependent
on the labour of those who toil and suffer in a tropical sun for
this luxury or necessary of life. But, for want of this friendly
admonition,

"Axeman, spare that tree,"

the sturdy blows were dealt around without mercy or discretion; and
the very generation that committed devastation in the first
settlements in different sections of our country, generally lived to
witness a scarcity of fuel; and means were resorted to for the
purchase of sugar, that were far more expensive than would have been
its manufacture, under a proper mode of economy in the preservation
of the maple, and the production of sugar from its sap.

Those who have trees of the sugar maple, should prepare in season
for making sugar. In many localities, wood is no object, and a rude
method of boiling is followed; but where fuel is very scarce, a
cheap apparatus should be prepared that will require but little
fuel. In some sections, broad pans or kettles have been made of
sheet-iron bottoms, and sides of plank or boards, care being taken
(continued) to allow the fire to come into contact with the iron
only. These pans cost but a trifle, and, owing to their large
surface, the evaporation is rapid.

Another cheap construction for boiling with economy is, to make a
tight box of plank, some four or five feet square--the width of a
wide plank will answer, and then put into it, almost at the bottom,
a piece of large copper funnel, say ten or twelve inches at the
outer part, and then smaller. This funnel, beginning near one end,
should run back nearly to the opposite side, then turn and come put
at the opposite end, or at the side near the end, as most
convenient, being in only two stra