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Domestic News
December 19, 1794
Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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A gentleman who visited Asia suggests to New Yorkers extracting maple sugar that making incisions higher on the tree, like with the Palmyra Tree, could yield more sugar from less sap and reduce labor.
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By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 17.
From the Minerva.
A Hint to the Wise.
A gentleman who has visited Asia, suggests to his fellow-citizens who are extracting sugar from the Maple Tree, that it may be more advantageous to make the incision higher than they do at present, for the Asiatics always cut the Palmyra Tree just below the first branches, and of the liquor they make both sugar & an intoxicating-drink. If the saccharine juice is formed by the combination of the particular property of the Maple Tree, with water which rises from the earth, it is natural to suppose that the present method of collecting the sap just above ground before it has undergone much commixture will be attended with its present result viz. a great quantity of water and very little sirrup.
If upon experiment it shall be found that more sugar is made from a less quantity of sap when the incision is made high up, one great advantage will be that less labor will be required to collect the sap and to evaporate the water.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 17.
From the Minerva.
A Hint to the Wise.
A gentleman who has visited Asia, suggests to his fellow-citizens who are extracting sugar from the Maple Tree, that it may be more advantageous to make the incision higher than they do at present, for the Asiatics always cut the Palmyra Tree just below the first branches, and of the liquor they make both sugar & an intoxicating-drink. If the saccharine juice is formed by the combination of the particular property of the Maple Tree, with water which rises from the earth, it is natural to suppose that the present method of collecting the sap just above ground before it has undergone much commixture will be attended with its present result viz. a great quantity of water and very little sirrup.
If upon experiment it shall be found that more sugar is made from a less quantity of sap when the incision is made high up, one great advantage will be that less labor will be required to collect the sap and to evaporate the water.
What sub-type of article is it?
Agriculture
What keywords are associated?
Maple Sugar
Tree Incision
Agricultural Suggestion
Palmyra Tree
Asia
What entities or persons were involved?
A Gentleman Who Has Visited Asia
Where did it happen?
New York
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
New York
Event Date
Dec. 17
Key Persons
A Gentleman Who Has Visited Asia
Event Details
A gentleman who has visited Asia suggests to fellow-citizens extracting sugar from the Maple Tree to make incisions higher up, based on Asiatic practices with the Palmyra Tree, to potentially obtain more sugar from less sap and reduce labor.