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to be only feven pounds, then 200 trees will yield 1400 
pounds of fugar, and dedu@ting 200from the quantity for the 
confumption of the family, there will remain for fale 1200 
pounds, whichat ,°, ofadol. per pound will yieldan annual 
profitto the farmer of 80 dollars. But if it thould be found 
that the fhade of the maple does not check the growth of 
grain any more than it does of grafs, double or treble that 
number of maple trees may be planted on every farm, and 
a profit proportioned to the above calculation be derived 
from them, Should this mode of tranfplanting the means 
of obtaining fugar be fuccefsful, it will not be a new one. 
The fugar cane of the Weft-Indies, was brought originally 
from the Eaft-Indies, by the Portuguefe, and cultivated at 
Madeira, from whence it was tranfplanted dire@tly or in- 
directly, to all the fugar iflands of the Weft-Indies. 
It were to be wifhed, that the fettlers upon the fugar 
maple lands, would fpare the fugar tree in clearing their 
lands. Ona farm of 200 acres of land, according to our 
former calculation, there are ufually 6,000 maple trees. 
If only 2,000 of thofe original and ancient inhabitants of 
the woods were fuffered to remain, and each tree were to 
afford only five pounds of fugar, the annual profit of fuch 
a farm in fugar alone, at the price formerly mentioned, 
would amount to 666 dollars, 150 dollars of which would 
probably more than defray all the expences of making it, 
and allow a plentiful deduGion for family ufe. 
According to the ufual annual profit of a fugar maple 
tree, each tree is worth to a farmer, two dollars and 2 of 
a dollar, exclufive therefore of the value of his farm, the 
2000 fugar maple trees alone confer a value upon it of 
5333 dollars and 22 ofa dollar. 
It is faid that the fugar trees when deprived of the thel- 
ter and fupport they derive from other foreft trees are lia- 
ble to be blown down, occafioned by their growing in a 
rich, and of courfe a loofe foil, To obviate this, it will 
only 
