exist in the United States. We are convinced that 

 entire neighborhoods, in certain localities, have been 

 changed by this system of tree-cutting. The time is 

 not far distant if such a practice continue, when the 

 beautiful green Vermont will be a story of the past. 

 It is all very well to argue that no harm is done by 

 the simple extraction of a certain number of gallons 

 of sap each year ; but it is, we consider, in no way 

 rational to suppose that this continual bleeding is 

 beneficial. The period for tapping is any time from 

 the autumn to the spring of the year; better during the 

 former than the latter season. It is also admitted that 

 the continual tapping of the tree increases the quality 

 of the sap ; hence the natural tendency to finally kill 

 the tree. It is also a well-established fact, that maple 

 trees to give a satisfactory yield must not be too near 

 together ; hence the importance of thinning them out. 

 Troughs and spouts, from which the sap flows from 

 the tapped portion of the tree, are made of wood. 

 The boiling or concentration of the sap is done on the 

 spot ; and to obtain one to two hundred pounds of 

 sugar a cord of wood is used as fuel ; hence for these 

 reasons the necessity of wood in large amounts, which 

 is supplied by the cutting down of more trees. We 

 may conclude that the entire maple business, how- 

 ever profitable it may have been in years gone by, has 

 no great future. Among the farmers this maple 

 sugar manufacture is said to be a social enjoyment, 

 and we trust that it will remain within these limits, 

 and be carried on as it was during the earliest days of 

 the settlement of New England, and not be considered 

 as a grand State industry, as argued in Vermont some 

 years past, during which period the amount of maple 

 sugar manufactured in one year would have permitted 

 the building of a wall around the entire State eight 

 inches high and eight inches thick. The yield of the 



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