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Canadian Forestry Journal. 



[Cour.tesy War Cry. 

 The Sugar-house, where the sap is evaporated and converted into Syrup and Sugar. 



Collecting Sap. 



Couvtepy War Cry. 



MAKING MAPLE SUGAR. 



The accompanying illustrations show 

 scenes familiar on many Canadian farms 

 in the early spring. A good su^ar bush 

 is a valuable asset to its possessor. The 

 average production for one tree is about 

 twelve gallons of sap during the sea- 

 son. Thirty-five gallons of sap will make 

 one gallon of syrup, and four gallons of 

 sap yield one pound of sugar. Maple 

 syrup, during the latter part of April, was 

 quoted on the Ottawa market at $1.00 to 

 $1.25 per gallon. If carefully treated, a 

 tree will yield sap for many years, oases 

 being known where sugar bushes have 



been yielding steadily for twenty-five 

 years withouc apparent damage. Accord- 

 ing- to the census of 1901 there were 17,- 

 804,823 lbs. of sugar (syrup being includ- 

 ed in these figures) of an estimated value 

 of $1,780,482. The province of Quebec 

 alone produced three-fourths of this. The 

 greatest desideratum of the maple sugar 

 industry at present is the elimination of 

 the adulteration of the products. The 

 province of Quebec is looking forward to 

 making s])eeial studies of the industry in 

 the near future. The New Hampshire Ex- 

 periment Station has done quite a little 

 work along this line. 



