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and the comparatively low price of maple sugar and syrup, due to 

 unfair competition from cheap adulterated products, has led in recent 

 years to the removal of many fine sugar orchards that had produced 

 crops of deliciousness yearly for most of a century. It is regrettable 

 that sturdy kings of the forest have been cleared off in this way as 

 an important yearly revenue at a season when badly needed has been 

 cut off and one which is secured by the labor of a few weeks when it 

 can best be spared from service on the farm. The conservation of 

 the maple groves will, therefore, appeal to every one interested in the 

 forest and the farm. 



