From cmgraf at verizon.net  Sat Nov  6 17:05:20 2021
From: cmgraf at verizon.net (Charles Graf)
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 18:05:20 -0400
Subject: [Syrupmakers] renew
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hi,

      I rejoined the NSSPPA several months ago and have not seen any messages 
from the group.   Is it still functioning?  Can I be re listed?    Charles Graf
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From bobmcguire at everestkc.net  Sat Nov  6 18:35:24 2021
From: bobmcguire at everestkc.net (Bob McGuire)
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 18:35:24 -0500
Subject: [Syrupmakers] renew
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Charles,  

Just hasn?t been any activity here on the list for a while.  
It?s been several years since my brother Bill grew & made any sorghum.  Early this summer I bought a J. A. Smith  Star mill made in St Louis that was being used for yard art at a local university.  
 It was set up as a power mill, but pictures in Mr. Dean?s Cane Mills book shows it to be a horse mill with meshed beveled horizontal and vertical gears.  Someone had converted it to a power mill.   It will be a restoration project at some point.

Bob McGuire
NW MO
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> On Nov 6, 2021, at 5:05 PM, Charles Graf <cmgraf at verizon.net> wrote:
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> hi,
>       I rejoined the NSSPPA several months ago and have not seen any messages from the group.   Is it still functioning?  Can I be re listed?    Charles Graf
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From kharbin at nctv.com  Sun Nov  7 05:37:26 2021
From: kharbin at nctv.com (Kevin Harbin)
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2021 06:37:26 -0500
Subject: [Syrupmakers] Syrup in the age of COVID
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I cut my 1/2 acre of m-81e sorghum yesterday. We?ll be cooking it off next Saturday. Some of the best cane I?ve had in years. Aphids came in very late so I didn?t have to spray this year. 
Hope everyone is still doing well, 
Kevin Harbin, South Carolina. 
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From tbaudoin at me.com  Sun Nov  7 19:37:54 2021
From: tbaudoin at me.com (Tracy Baudoin)
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2021 19:37:54 -0600
Subject: [Syrupmakers] Syrup in the age of COVID
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It?s good to hear from others, it?s been so quiet on this list. I?ve cut way back this year, only planting about a third of usual.  Sales have been way down, with COVID and all. Despite that, I was able to find and almost finish restoring a miniature version of what looks like a Chatanooga 44 cane mill. I?m told it could have been a salesman?s demo model. It has a hand crank and works fairly well, but is missing the knife. I had to build two new bottom rollers and shafts, but I?m not sure if the best way to make a knife. Any suggestions?

Tracy Baudoin
(985) 209-3420
tbaudoin at me.com
www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-Baudoin

> On Nov 7, 2021, at 5:37 AM, Kevin Harbin <kharbin at nctv.com> wrote:
> 
> ?
> I cut my 1/2 acre of m-81e sorghum yesterday. We?ll be cooking it off next Saturday. Some of the best cane I?ve had in years. Aphids came in very late so I didn?t have to spray this year. 
> Hope everyone is still doing well, 
> Kevin Harbin, South Carolina. 
> Sent from my iPhone
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From scott at eldercomputersolutions.com  Sun Nov  7 19:44:28 2021
From: scott at eldercomputersolutions.com (Scott)
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 01:44:28 +0000
Subject: [Syrupmakers] Syrup in the age of COVID
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I use a Chattanooga 44. Do you have pictures of the mini version?

Thanks
Scott

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> On Nov 7, 2021, at 8:38 PM, Tracy Baudoin <tbaudoin at me.com> wrote:
> 
> ?It?s good to hear from others, it?s been so quiet on this list. I?ve cut way back this year, only planting about a third of usual.  Sales have been way down, with COVID and all. Despite that, I was able to find and almost finish restoring a miniature version of what looks like a Chatanooga 44 cane mill. I?m told it could have been a salesman?s demo model. It has a hand crank and works fairly well, but is missing the knife. I had to build two new bottom rollers and shafts, but I?m not sure if the best way to make a knife. Any suggestions?
> 
> Tracy Baudoin
> (985) 209-3420
> tbaudoin at me.com
> https://url.emailprotection.link/?bTuHeeM2C7mA2ErFtQhkRKS7DC567GVV2SCWQ5cBqkcaKsujale_DYXGIcKgpCLGQJEE6pFhcR7OipxPO5D7PATUnGNFvTo3uWQmUYyEemKxKPjoA_17OOlJG0jqE66Ey
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>> On Nov 7, 2021, at 5:37 AM, Kevin Harbin <kharbin at nctv.com> wrote:
>> 
>> ?
>> I cut my 1/2 acre of m-81e sorghum yesterday. We?ll be cooking it off next Saturday. Some of the best cane I?ve had in years. Aphids came in very late so I didn?t have to spray this year. 
>> Hope everyone is still doing well, 
>> Kevin Harbin, South Carolina. 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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