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irom the cane. The caoe sugar of the United States is cleaner 

 than the sugar of the West India islands and some other quarters. 

 The market price i>; ahvays a paying one — from 12 to 22 cents 

 per pound, according to quality. Much depends on the making, 

 boiling, purifying and refining; if tliese are properly attended 

 to, it can be made almost as white and beautiful as the best 

 double refined, made from tlie cane, and much more palatable and 

 healthy. There is a peculiar flavor imparted to the maple sugar 

 if properly manufactured, which no other plant producing the 

 juice has. The produce of sap frora diii'erent trees, is very diQier- 

 ent, some producing much more than others, according to location, 

 size, thrift and manner of tapping. I have known trees to pro- 

 duce 6 or seven pails full in a day or 24 hours, others much less. 

 A gentleman, a sugar manufacturer, in western New-York, writes : 

 " Having introduced twenty tubes into a sugar maple, I drew 

 from it in the same day 23 gallons, 3 quarts of sap, which gave 

 7^ lbs. of sugar; 33 pounds have been made this season froDi the 

 same tree, which supposes 100 gallons of sap." It would seem 

 from this, that only a little more than three gallons for a 

 pound, though four are commonly allowed. The sugar maple 

 thrives best when insulated, not near any other tree ; high or lo9r 

 ground, if rich, and near moisture are best. Great havoc has 

 been committed of late on the sugar, and all other kinds of this 

 valuable tree ; this for fuel, cliarcoal and potash, for all of which 

 it is very fine ; it contains a great deal of the alkaline principle, 

 and of course produces pearlash in quantity and quality, greater 

 and better than almost any other tree. The tree should be pre- 

 served with great care for timber, sugar and ornament, being as 

 b<?autiful as useful. 



Tiie oak is a large family of oui- forest trees ; the white oak the 

 first in importance. It was remarked by Theophrastus more than 

 2,000 years ago, that the oaks, and especially the W'hite, attained 

 the greatest perfection on a high, rough, gravelly, mountaiuous 

 region, here it grows slower, is more subject to winds and storms, 

 becomes harder, more compact, lasting, and every way more use- 

 ful as a timber tree. The while oak of the granite mountains of 

 New Hampshire and Massachusetts produces timber among the 

 best, and this tor any building purpose, vessels or houses, and 



