Possibilities of a Modern Maple Grove. 



View of Inside of Sugar House, Maple Glen Reserve. 



journev- 

 With"a 



line of barb wire, so as to be easily 

 taken up after the season is over and 

 stored in the cabin, all long haiilint; 

 of sap is obviated. The collector of 

 sap. with a neck yoke and two pails, 

 gathers the sap from tree to tree, and 

 empties it at pleasure into the near- 

 est pipe by means of a connecting; 

 hopper. The sap flows direct to tlie 

 storage tank, and the collector 

 Avastes no time in needless 

 ings to the storage tank. 

 complete line of piping, it is nevei' 

 necessary for a collector to travel 

 more than a few yards before empty- 

 ing his load. A good man should be 

 able to gather all the sap from 600 

 to 800 trees each day in this way. 



It is very important that the 

 evaporating outfit should be ami)le 

 for the size of the sugar orchard. We 

 see all too frequently small evapor- 

 ating accommodation, necessitating 

 much overtime work. The largest 

 evaporator at the present time on the 

 market is a 6 ft. x 24 ft. This is not 



at all unwieldly, and can be ojjerated 

 by one man with little more trouble 

 than one of one-fourth the area. In 

 most sugar orchards this size should 

 be ample for an orchard of 4,000 

 trees, by providing a night shift for 

 boiling. The next point is to provide 

 large buckets, covers, and satisfac- 

 tory sj)Outs to give the best possible 

 returns from each tree tapped. It is 

 a frequent observation that small 

 buckets waste one-half of the sap 

 Avhich flows, and that uncoveretl 

 buckets in rainy weather waste 

 yearly all the sap. 



It has been estimated that about 

 9% of the sugar content of the maple 

 tree is obtained fi'om a single tap- 

 ping. It is also an opuiion of ex- 

 perts that if 207t could be obtained 

 no damage would be done to the tree. 

 If some Avay is devised by w'hich an 

 increased flow could be obtained it 

 would increase the commercial re- 

 turns materially. 



In administei'ing a sugar orchard 



