\ tree cioes TIOT; me UL * -a.&c. 

 ccnmulates infirmities with the years 

 nd has many diseases. It may starve 

 r die of thirst; caterpillars may eat 

 ts foliage, scale ,bugs suck its juices, 

 eetles tunnel under the bark, scab 

 ust, moulds, rot, blight may prey 

 ip'on it. The wind is also an enemy. 

 >eeling the bark of the birch does not 

 ;ill it. The lumbering season is over 

 vhen the sap begins to stream up- 

 ward, as wood cut "in the sap" is n 

 tble to decay. A sugar maple in three 

 veeks yields of its lifeblood to the ex- 

 ent of twenty-five gallons (seventy 

 Irops falling every minute) which 

 joils down to a little less than five 

 ? ounds of sugar. The trees are not 

 injured if properly treated, not ex- 

 hausted by being bored too much or 

 at the wrong time. 



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