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which have not been previoully wounded, andit affords 
-more fugar, rnofks | ets: eal ite ois ot 
Fromtwenty three gallons and:one quart of fap procu- 
‘red in twenty bours from only two of thefe dark coloured 
trees, Arthur Noble, Efq. ofthe ftate of New-York obtain- 
ed four pounds and thirteen ounces of good grained fu- 
ar. | 
; A tree of an.ordinary fize yields in a good feafon from 
twenty to thirty gallons of fap, from which are made 
from five to fix pounds of fugar.. To this, there are fome- 
times remarkable exceptions. Samuel Low, Efq.a Ju 
tice of Peace in Montgomery County, inthe ftate of New- 
York informed Arthur Noble, Efq.thathe had made twen- 
ty pounds, and one ounce of fugar between the 14th and 
23d of April in the year 1789.from a fingle tree that had 
been tapped for teveral fucceflive years before. | | 
From the influence which culture has upon foreft and 
other trees, it has been fuppofed, that by tranfplanting 
the Sugar Maple tree into a garden, or by deftroying fuch 
other trees as fhelter it fromthe rays of the fun, the 
quantity of the fap might be increafed and. its quality 
much improved. I have heard of one fa& which favours 
this opinion. A farmer in Northampton County in 
the ftate of Pennfylvania, planted a number of thefe trees 
above twenty years ago in his meadow, from three gal- 
lons of the fap of which he obtains every year a pound of 
fugar. It was obferved formerly that it required five or 
fix gallons of the fap of the trees which grow in the 
woods to produce the fame quantity of fugar. 
The fap diftils from the wood of the tree. Trees which 
have been cut down in the winter for the fupport of the 
domettic animals of the new fettlers, yield aconfiderable 
quantity of fap as foon as their trunks and limbs feel the 
rays of the fun in the fpring of the year. 
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