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into the wood which forms the season's growth. The greater part 

 of this sap, however, and perhaps all of it is this elaborated sap that 

 we use in making syrup and sugar from the maple tree, and tar and 

 turpentine from the pine tree. " 



Fig. 13. A CEMENT CONCRETE SUGAR HOUSE IN WESTERN ONTARIO 



THE SUGAR HOUSE. 



The sugar house of a modern plant is not only for making and 

 putting up the products but also, for storing buckets, pails, spouts 

 and other equipment from one spring to another. What appeared 

 to be the best sugar house visited in the Eastern Townships was con- 

 structed to take care of the flow of about one thousand trees. It 

 is 42 ft. long and 30 ft. wide. The walls were well built of house siding 

 and painted; the floor is of cement and the ceiling of shingled wood. 

 It has a leanto 12 ft. wide on the east side for storing wood and 

 a small compartment at the north end for protecting the storage tank. 

 It is built on sloping ground so that the gathering tank empties by 

 gravitation into the storage tank and from there into the evaporator. 

 Where the location is level or nearly so it is the usual custom to build 

 an elevation on which the hauling sled may rest while the collected 

 sap is flowing out to the sap holder. Other sugar houses have metal 



