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Canadian I'orestrx Joitnuil, March, IQ20 



The Maple Tree as a Profit Maker 



^y Dr. George Fisk, Montreal 

 Proprietor of Maple Glen Reserve, Magog, P. Q. 



^y Dr. George Fisk, Mot 

 Proprietor of Maple Glen Reserve, 



The only natural forest tree in Can- 

 ada which may be cropped while it 

 is slowly g-rowing to maturity for 

 lumber is the maple tree. This may 

 be tapped with profit for the produc- 

 tion of maple sugar after it has grown 

 to the size of six or eight inches, and 

 so provide a revenue long before it 

 is large enough to give the best re- 

 turns as lumber. In twenty-five or 

 thirty years after a tree the size of a 

 broom handle has been transplanted, 

 it should yield a very profitable re- 

 turn for the time and money in- 

 vested. 



The most suitable locations in this 

 Province of Quebec for maple 

 groves are along the ridges and hill- 

 sides and it is not difficult to find 

 manv hillsides gradually sloping. 



which have been cleared or partially 

 cleared, and are now grown up to 

 thickets of hardwood, in whichc 

 maple largely predominates. Mr. R. 

 H. Campbell, Director of the Forestry 

 Branch of the Department of the 

 Interior, concludes an in t -resting 

 comparison between the pine tree and 

 the maple tree as follows : 'When one 

 considers the revenue derived after 

 the thirtieth year from the sap, and 

 the higher prices obtainable for thin- 

 nings as fuel, or making acetic acid, 

 wood alcohol and charcoal, there 

 seems but little doubt that the maple 

 would in the end be the more profit- 

 able tree. This is particularly true 

 in the case of the small wood-lot 

 owner, or farmer, who has many 

 uses for the wood, and especially 



Pouring pure Maple Sugar cakes in a modern Quebec factory. 



