MAPLE SUGAR IN COLONIAL TIMES 



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content varies as to year and the time of the season it is 

 produced. The sap can be gathered in wooden or gal- 

 vanized buckets. The latter with covers are considered 

 the best. As soon as you can estimate the number of 

 buckets and spiles you will need, your order should be 

 placed for them in order to be sure they can be had 

 when needed. 



The producer of maple syrup usually gets from $1.50 

 to $1.75 per gallon for his product. At the present price 

 of sugar, no doubt the price next year will be greatly 

 increased. The profit of the industry depends upon 

 the amount of help that must be hired. If one who has 

 a sugar orchard is not busy during the period of syrup 

 production and has home help sufficient to run a camp, 

 the making of maple syrup is profitable. We have a re- 

 port from one man who tapped 175 trees which made 



75 gallons of syrup, which he sold for over a hundred 

 dollars. 



Now it is the duty of every one who has sugar 

 trees to make sugar or syrup this year, for this would do 

 much to relieve the sugar famine. If you cannot tap 

 your own trees, possibly a neighbor would be glad to do 

 so. It is not an infrequent thing to haul maple syrup 

 several miles ; thus one operator could work all the small 

 woods in his neighborhood. The injury to trees from 

 tapping is negligible. If you have sugar trees and can- 

 not work them this year yourself, do not wait for some 

 one to come to you to ask to work them. Get busy and 

 hunt up some one who would be willing to work them 

 on shares. Remember that "sugar" will not only catch 

 flies, but without it we couldn't have caught "the Kaiser." 



FEDERAL LEGISLATION NEEDED 



Tj 1 OLLOWING are salient points from the very fair, 

 -* moderate and well formulated recommendations of 

 the Forest Service to the United States Senate with ref- 

 erence to desirable forest legislation. 



1. Co-operation with States in Fire Protection, Forest 

 Renewal and Classification of Lands as between timber 

 production and agriculture with initial annual appropria- 

 tion of not less than $1,000,000 expendable in co-opera- 

 tion with the States. 



2. Extension and Consolidation of Federal Forest 

 Holdings, continuing the purchase of forest or cut-over 

 lands with annual appropriation of at least $2,000,000. 



3. The Reforestation of Denuded Federal Lands, 

 to be completed in not more than twenty years, 



this being most urgent on denuded watersheds. 



4. A study of Forest Taxation and Insurance with 

 devising of model laws on forest taxation, co-operation 

 with State agencies in promoting their adoption and 

 development of forest insurance. 



5. Survey and Classification of Forest Resources to 

 determine the present volume and production of each 

 class of timber in every important forest region, and 

 ascertain the requirements, as to quantity and character 

 of timber, of each state and of every important wood- 

 using industry. 



6. Current Appropriations for Forest Research to 

 maintain Experiment Stations in all the principal forest- 

 ed regions of the United States. The Lumber Bulletin. 



FOREST CONSERVATION BY BETTER UTILIZATION 



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 industries which promise possiblities of developing bet- 

 ter utilization. If a general survey could be made of 

 the wood-using industries sufficient to bring together an 

 intelligent and analytical summary of utilization possi- 

 bilities and if this summary were stripped to what appears 

 sanely practicable, we all would undoubtedly be some- 

 what staggered at the opportunities lying at our very 

 doors. In the few instances cited a saving of well over 

 10 billion feet was indicated, but assume that in the whole 

 field the most that could be hoped for by good business 

 utilization amounts to 10 billion feet annually. 



That would mean 10 billion feet of ripe timber saved 

 each year. It would save one year's supply every fourth 

 year. It would prolong by 25 per cent the timber reserve 

 the forest insurance assets of the wood-using indus- 

 tries. To accomplish that by planting new forests and 

 growing new timber will require annually almost half a 

 million acres, a cash outlay of some 10 million dollars 

 followed by 80 to 100 years of upkeep and protection. 

 Furthermore, in the working out of the forest problem, 

 the most critical times will come in the period between 

 the exhaustion of the present forests and the maturity of 

 new forests. The possible saving annually of 10 billion 

 feet of timber on the stump is worth looking into and 

 the wood dependent industry that doesn't see it is blind 

 to its own interests and to its opportunities. 



Without minimizing in any degree the importance of 

 forest production, the field of conservation by better 

 utilization stands out therefore as an intensely practical 

 means of accomplishing immediate results in reducing the 

 drain upon the timber we already have; timber produced . 

 in the course of hundreds of years of growth and renew- 

 able only in the same way. Immediate steps towards 

 forest production are fieeded to provide timber for the 

 future ; conservation by better utilization accompanied by 

 adequate forest protection is needed to keep timber be- 

 hind your factories and to bridge the critical gap of an 

 intervening shortage which already impends. 



This organization now in process of formation has 

 before it this great field of possibilities for service to 

 itself and to its customers the public. Once thoroughly 

 organized with all wood-using industries represented, the 

 field could be critically and intelligently surveyed and a 

 definite program drawn along those lines promising 

 greatest return. That program will necessarily be one of 

 research research in the sense of collecting and co-ordi- 

 nating information which although now available is so 

 widely disseminated as to prevent intelligent and con- 

 structive application and research of the more intensive 

 kind which seeks to yield new information needed in 

 developing the most productive measures of conservation 

 by better utilization. 



