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tained one pound of sugar from three —, while it re- 
quired five or six gallons from a tree in its w 
7. That a few acres of land planted with eal and im- 
proved as a sugar orchard, would probably ay more profit- 
able than the same ground devoted to fruit ti 
8. That the buds and twigs of the sugar mae are used 
for food for cattle in the winter and spring 
I had for several years known that Fryeburg was celebra- 
in that town. On enquiring into the subject [ learned the 
following particulars : 
1. The sugar in F ryeburg is not made from the sugar ma- 
ple but from the river maple, (eer eriocarpum) which 
abounds there on the banks of the Sac 
2. About four gallons of sap afford one pound of sugar. 
_ 3. Two men in 1819 made twelve hundred pounds from 
two hundred and twenty-five trees, ae two taps to a tree, 
equal to five and one third pounds to 
4. The sap was 5 generally. said to be pon ste than that of 
the sugar ma 
4A particular cluster. of trunks springing apparently 
from. the same root, tapped in several places aBeted-s twen- 
of an inone day! |. 
6. Those make sugar from the sugar and-river ma- 
ples growing. "together, iciled the. profarence to the river 
Bs The sugar is miter and of a better quality than that of 
the sugar maple. 
8. A peculiar method of tapping is practised in Fryeburg. 
The incision from which the sap issues is made by driving 
a gouge a little obliquely upward, an inch or more into the 
wood. A spout or tap about a foot long, to conduct off the 
sap, is inserted about two inches belaw. this. incision with 
the same gouge. The two incisions are situated thus: = 
rincipal- advantage of this method is, that the wound 
in the tree is so small that it is perfectly healed or “ grown 
over’ in two years, the tree sustaining little or no. injury. 
The other common methods of tapping are two. 1. With 
Micheaus says, that the rac made from the river maple on the Ovi, is 
chine and more agreeable to the taste than that from the sugar maple 
