which yield a revenue without loss to the tree itself. The 

 maple meets these requirements. Timber trees yield a revenue 

 at death ; the maple declares as an annual dividend one of the 

 most nutritious and delicious articles of food, which needs 

 only to he known in all its purity to command the market." 



The most important question in the discussion of the value 

 of a sugar orchard is the one of how well can it he made to 

 pay. In this connection we quote again as follows from Prof. 

 Davenport, whose farm is in Woodland township, Barry 

 county, this State. He says : 



"We tapped one thousand trees, which were scattered over 

 forty acres of land, which is by no means a choice piece of 

 timber, as the same number might be found standing on 

 twenty acres. Besides the land, the cash investment is about 

 seven hundred and fifty dollars. Our annual product sells 

 for from about three hundred and fifty dollars to five hundred 

 dollars, with an average of about four hundred, from which 

 we deduct expenses as follows: 



Labor, fuel, etc $100 oo 



Wear of apparatus 15 oo 



Interest on $750.00 at 6 per cent 45 oo 



Making total cost to manufacture $160 oo 



This leaves an average annual net profit of $240.00. As all 

 expenses have been deducted, the $240.00 may be considered 

 as the income from an investment in forty acres of maple 

 timber, which is six per cent on the value of the land at 



$100.00 per acre. As the money value of the land is really but 

 fifty dollars, the investment yields a dividend of twelve per 

 cent." 



The above figures which we quote from Prof. Davenport are 

 not large in the aggregate, but the income is produced at a 

 season of the year when very little else could be done on the 

 farm with men and teams. It must be remembered that this 

 income is produced without killing a tree or impoverishing 

 the land. 



Some years ago. in a little brochure issued by Prof. A. J. 

 Cook of the Agricultural College on the maple sugar bush, 

 he makes the following statement: 



"My bush of 600 trees occupies about twenty acres. At 

 $40.00 per acre this would make : 



Land $800 oo 



My house cost 



Evaporator and arch. 



Buckets 



Spouts 



Gathering tank 



Store trough 



Sled 



Covers 



Incidentals 



Wear and tear 



150 oo 



150 oo 



120 oo 



20 oo 



10 oo 



10 oo 



10 oo 



12 OO 



5 oo 

 18 oo 



Total investment $1,300 oo 



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