THE PRODUCTION OF MAPLE SIRUP AND SUGAR. 



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SAP BUCKETS. 



Buckets are suspended on the tree to catch the sap. Formerly 

 hollowed logs or birch-bark boxes were the usual forms, and these 



FIG. 4. Common forms of sap spouts. (Nos. 1 and 12 are wooden ; nos. 3, 4, 7, 10, 13, 

 16, 17, and 18 are molded metal; the others are metal bent into shape usually over 

 forms, i 



are found to-day in some of the cruder camps. Their use does not 

 lead to the better grades of maple products, and because they are 



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