The inventors and inventions of Cayuga County, N.Y. (1882)
Wheeler, Cyrenus, b. 1817, Osborne, David M., b. 1822. [from old catalog] · Auburn, N.Y., The author · leaf 23
18 INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS liollowed out hy the axe and fire to form a mortar, and alarge wooden pestle suspended above it from a spring-pole. The forest also yielded sweetness. The sngar maple,abundant in this County in those days yielded, in early … spring, an abundant harvest of sap, whieli was caught introughs shaped by the axe, and boiled down to a delicioussyrup making more palatable the corn meal cake, and theboiled samp. OF CAYUGA COUNTV, N. Y. 19 W ith the advance of improvements, animals were intr ducecl, and oxen became impc Htant…
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