Phillips High School - Phillipian Yearbook (Phillips, ME)

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Illl' I H ILI ll N has changed all tl11s Now lt lS a pront able buslness 111 Nlam New II lIT1pSl1ll6 and X ermont where large SUWKI' orchards are operated some haxtnfr as many as two thousand t1ees 1n use Vlherexerthe1e IS a l1rffe OYCll'11Cl about the otl1 of Nia eh the oxx ners begm to et busx and from tl1en Llllfll the sappmg season lS ox Cl a great deal of work 111ust be aeeon1pl1sl1ed lhe tirst tlllllff to be done 1np1epa1at1on IS tl1e CllS'Ll'll5UtlOl'1 of tl1e buckets IC sap house, whose s1fc depends upo11 the number of trees used and the Sl76 of the ex aporator 1n xx hreh the sap lb bo1led usuallx srtuated at tl1e foot of a h1ll Galx an11ed ptpes xx1tl1 tunnels pl1eed where they are needed are lard ln many dueetrons throufrh tl1e groxe and emptx IHYO tl1e lI1'llll p1pe xx huh carr1es tl1e sap to tl1e la1ge tank 1ntl1e house Now the trees must be tapped and tlns also requues 1 great deal of work, for txxo men can tap only about hx e hundred trees a dax For dorng tlus thex use a three ewhths 1nch b1t lDOI'l 1ff 1nto the tree about two mches, then IHYO tl1e space thus made an ITOII spxle 15 drrx en, on whlch a t1n buc ket xx1th a wooden cox er pamted black o11 one sxde and wl11te on tl1e otl1e1 lb hung The coxers are so colored 1n order to 11d n atherxnff one color berng left up one day and the other the next ll1e sap s collected from them and taken to the near est tunnel 1nto xvh1ch rt IS poured then It flows to the blg tank lll the sap house from wh1cl1 It runs to the ex aporator auto1nat1c ally as It IS needed and as lt 15 transformed here, unmense clouds of steam contrnually TISS and escape through the xentrlators 111 the top of tl1e sap house, but after It enters tl1e ex aporator It lb s1pl1oned from one sec t1on to another unt1l lt reaches tl1e last pan where lt IS drawn ott at tl1e r1te of four gallons an l1our as sy rup Ill1LIllt IS nut 1nto a large setthnfr tank after xx l1lCl'l It lb put ll'1lIO gallon cans and sealed up a1r t1ght for 1111rket ll1e sap xx1ll 11ot run from the trees un less 1t freezes a11d thaxxs Some th1nk lt runs better after a storm as lt often flows qurte fast for tlnrtx SIX hours but then stops and x 1ll not tlow 21U'I1ll1 llllfll It freezes It IS estrmated thlt one thousand rock maple trees w1ll 111al e about two hundred Gallons of syrup ID a s1nffleyear,1f the weather lS faxorable Xfter the sappmg season the buckets haxe to be taken ln, washed w1ped and pxeked ready for the next year and the plpe has to be collected as well ln X ermont the sap 1s bo1led to make maple sugar much H1016 than lt IS IH Mame but thex make some SXI'L113Il1ClC as well as here or e1ther of these processes a great deal of wood lS 1equ1red lhere ls a great delllllld for these prod ucts all oxer the xxorld One of tl1e best equ1pped orchards 111 New longland, the Sedgeley orchard at Ph1ll1ps Mame has an annual p1'OClLlCllOll of from four to s1x hundred frallons lhe sy rup from th1s or Chard reachly sells at Sr , per gallon and has been slnpped 1nto nearlx all the states of the Lmon as well as to london, Ing land but bx far the largest part goes to our summer hotels, one hundred and hftx fY1llOllS bemg sent to the Poland Sprmg House at one slnpment lk S Q f- 1 1 - 16 . . PIA. K: C YA 1 Y A K K 41 . KI L r 3, A ' 4 ' '4 ' ' - r vl' ' 1 4 4 ' . ' . I C3 Cs 1 4 V c 1 V l Y Y 4 2 7 D I Y ' 7 n Q , . 1 ,-, v -1 ., , 4 - . - 1 . . I I I 0 Y I K . v ' . . .1 1 D 4 , 4 .. 4 b 6 4 , ' g Y 4 ' 4 . 5 4 . 4 l V l ' 2 ' . . fy . l g C . - L x - 1 5 l 4 A4 'ff 1 '. ' . x. ' , -. 11 S '- ' .. 1 . 5. ,I 5 1 K - , , J - 1 ' I wr. v . I l , . 4 . 1 U , 'K . ' ' .'4 ' , 15 f t ' k .4 4 v A ' 1- -' Y . 4 , 4 4 . . 4 x 4 64 , v 4 .7 l - -, C C V L u 1 Q V I 7 1 '-,. ' - , - . , O 4 1 . . .. K ' 7 1 . ' '4' , ' . K , . 1 t S , v , , A v Y .1 I x x C v - ' 2 4 Y A' ' .Q4 . 4 ' 4 ' 4 X4 ' 4 4 , ' '. . . . - ,v . ,, . , , Q 5 ' s ' 1 - . F - fs D 1 zz- ' - - v ' - . K - V . ' I H 1 K 1 ' . . . . . . rx - . V , - ff K K x , - , , X 4 ' ' ' ' r ' , 4 ' ' . , X' N. , -1 . . A , I 4 r , 4 5 1 rr 1 ' ' 1 C. 5, 1 ., Y f x -1 fs V . ' C . 1. br . - 4 - ' .' 4 .2x 4 K. . . . . , v l I 4 4 , ' ' , I 4' - . i C C 4 4 , . . - , I ' I' 74 4 4 ' ' 4 . . r K . . L ' 4 bl 7 ' L r s K v ' . - , ' ' , s I. . Ir.

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