LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Fig. 1 A maple sugar grove in full leaf 2 



" 2 Maple syrup 4 



" 3 Maple sugar 4 



4 Scenes in the early days of sugar making 10 



5 Antiquated systems of boiling still in use in backward sections. .". . 11 



" 6 Section of an Eastern Townships sugar bush 14 



" 7 Sap gatherers making the morning round 15 



" 8 Gathering sap in the sugar bush 16 



" 9 Through metal pipes the sap flows from the bush to the sugar house . . 17 



'* 10 A gala day in a sugar bush at Algonquin Park 18 



"11 A sugar house in operation in Missisquoi County, Quebec 21 



" 12 A spring scene in the maple country 22 



'13 A cement concrete sugar house in Western Ontario 23 



" 14 A load of sap arriving at the sugar house on a sixteen hundred tree 



sugar orchard in Compton County, Quebec 24 



"15 A gathering tank discharging its load of sap at the sugar house. ... 25 



" 16 Types of modern evaporators 26 



" 17 Types of modern evaporators 27 



" 18 A modern gathering tank ready to be emptied at the sugar house .... 28 



" 19 Sap buckets receiving the run 29 



" 20 A joy of Spring 30 



" 21 Types of sap spouts 31 



" 22 The sap gatherer making his round 33 



" 23 The hand-sled and milk can used in gathering sap 34 



" 24 A sap gatherer and his old-fashioned outfit 35 



" 25 View of inside of sugar house 37 



" 26 Skimmer for removing scum from boiling sap 38 



" 27 Felt syrup strainer 38 



" 28 Thermometer. 40 



" 29 Saccharometer 40 



" 30 A case of maple syrup ready for shipment 43 



" 31 Label authorized by the Maple Sugar and Syrup Co-operative Agri- 

 cultural Association 53 



" 32 Display of maple syrup competing in the five hundred dollar contest 58 



