CHAPTER IX 



Syrup and Sap 



Products obtained from growing trees; maple 

 sugar, turpentine, wood creosote, tar, etc. 



Who, as he stood before the window of a Child's 

 Restaurant watching the white capped chef turning 

 golden brown disks on the griddle, has not smacked 

 his lips at the thought of wheat cakes and maple 

 syrup? But do we ever stop to think of where that 

 syrup comes from? The American traveler in 

 foreign lands may look far, yet nowhere can he find 

 this particular delight. Maple syrup is a unique 

 product, an annual crop from a tree crop, and yet 

 only one illustration of the many sided usefulness of 

 trees. Our forefathers apparently learned of it 

 from the Indians, but, as the methods then em- 

 ployed were exceedingly crude, various improve- 

 ments have since been necessary. In our most 

 modern maple sugar operations the sap is collected 

 in covered metal buckets fastened to the trunk, 

 piped or hauled on sleds to a central point, and 

 evaporated in pans divided into successive compart- 

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