Sun-Journal du lieu suivant : Lewiston, Maine • 19

Serefeg Jay Iirermore llvereiore Falls and Fayette Lewiston Sun-Journal Thursday March 25 1983 7 Maple syrup can be made by anyone -Ifni''' According to a brochure distributed at the ferm "gHi chemist Robert Boyle told his associates in Europe in 1663 that "there is in some parts of New England a kind of tree whose Juice that weeps out its incision if it is permitted slowly to exhale away the superfluous moisture doth congeal into a sweet substance and the like was confirmed to me by the agent of the great and popidace colony of Massachusetts1 In fect the sap that flows when night time temperatures fell well below freestag and the day time temperatures rise into the 40s is actually excess stored starches in the maple trees that has collected through during the summer and into the fell These starches turn to sugars and pass into the sap of the tree Once temperatures reach 45 degrees during the day the progression of starch to sugar stops and the sap no longer By JUDITH MEYER Special to Nafgfrbora TURNER-Backyard augaring ia 'different than commercial maple eyrup operations and can be by anyone who knows what a maple tree looks like how to drill a hole into the trunk of the tree and what to do with the sap once it is drained from the tree AD aspects of backyard sugar- -tag will be featured during public tours at The Village Farm on March 38 Maine Maple Syrup Sunday The form located on Route 117 will only tap a maximum of between 40 to SO trees this year because the syrup produced from this sap is only used by the fendty' -The ferm operated by BO and Sharon Hathaway and their daughter Altyaon White is a training ground tor harness racing hones and is also the site of catering business The Village Farm Caterers the sap In plastic milk Jugs or covered buckets The Hathaways use a 30 gallon plastic drum strapped to the back of a horse-drawn pung or wooden sleigh to collect the sap from individual one gallon buckets hung on the trees but encourage people who want to collect only one gallon of sap to do so and then condense the sap into homemade maple syrup of collecting aap wWi their sled This is done rather simply by boiling off the water content of the sap at spedlletemperatures and after straining the liquid QnMrfwg it at the kitchen stove using a candy thermometer The Village Farm has a large wood-burning evaporator to boil the sap to syrup but White said the same process can be accomplished on a smaller scale in almost home perform songs and readings from books they have written Wilton: Eqjoy a baked bean and casserole supper from 4A0 to 6 pm Saturday at the East Wilton Orange HalL Brown bread salads and homemade pies are also on the menu Sponsored by East Wilton Orange Host of events taking place this week in region runs sweetly The best maple syrup producing sap contains about 3 per cod sugar The sap can be extracted from the tree through a simple drilled hole and by inserting a tube into the hole tar the sap to run into a bucket According to White true backyard suiting operators "never hare to buy and can simply eoUect HaD Adults $6 children under 13 $3 Benefit: Amvets 35th An- Livermore Falls: Daffodil Days wm take place on Thursday and Friday Buy flowers and support the American Cancer Society at Shop Save Future Foods and Otis Federal Credit Union Donation: $4 New Sharon: Feast on baked beans casseroles and homemade pies from 5 to 6:30 pm Saturday at the New Sharon United Methodist Church annex Sponsored by the Methodist Church PhiUps: Feast on baked beans from 5 to 6:30 pm Saturday at the Methodist Church under croft Adults $5 ages 13 and under $3 A0 Benefit: Methodist Church Strong: Dine on a New England Boiled Dinner with coned beef from 5A0 to 7 pm Saturday at the Forster Memorial Building Benefit: Strong Story Camp Children of the second and third grade win multi-age classes will Methodist Parish House Also serving hot biscuits and gingerbread with topping Adults $4 children $3' Jay: The Mining links Snowmobile Chib of New Sharon will host its annual Spring Ring Dinner and Dance from 630 pm to 13:30 am Saturday at the AmVets Hal Buffet dinner and danctag to music by the Original Travelers Members and guests Tickets: $1350 per person on sale until Wednesday at Qood Times Unlimited and Mickey's Hallmark in Farmington at Paling's Market in Wilton and at the AmVets HaQ Jay: Eqjoy a hot buffet from 5 to 7 pm Friday at the Amvets Farmington: Eqjoy the Youth Concert at 3 pm Sunday in Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington Local students ages 6-16 from area music teachers classes Variety of instruments No admission Sponsored by the Western Maine Arts Institute Farmington: Eqjoy a performance by The Three of Us at 3 pm Sunday in Ethel Walton dining room on Anson Street Free Public welcome Farmington: Christian Education satellite workshops will take place Saturday at the University of Maine at Farmington Regls-tration at 8 am opening session 8:30 am workshops at 9:30 and 11 am and 1:30 pm Fee in advance $8 at the door $10 Call 778-3701 for more information Jay: Dine on a fish chowder luncheon from 11:30 am to 1 pm Friday at the North Jay fits -i- ad i i'' iVv Choke Filet MignonA Baked Stuffed Shrimp rag $1595 Sms UnA MndqrMdqr 1 1 M-UO MnwAy faOody 5pwl0pu Cloud Sunavjf momrpoimniERS vmjs9 Plcpuc yios uedbedi cultivate kiiMMEfnoitf conraiU Mown wiAJUSTONEHANDO TiUe to deep wide Electric Sun evaiUMe 6 Modeh low 5499 Fill No Time Land WanMy! 88 Osgood Sons RL 2 East Hours: Moa-Fri 8-5 Sat 8-Noon Dixfield 6454934 or 1-800-2874934 775.