98 MAPLE-SAP SIRUP. 



EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENT ON COMPOSITION. 

 CANADIAN SIRUP AS COMPARED WITH UNITED STATES SIRUP. 



Very little maple sirup is imported into the United States from 

 Canada, since the duty is the same as for sugar (4 cents a pound), 

 and the importers prefer to handle the latter. The Bureau of Statis- 

 tics of the Department of Agriculture gives the following figures on 

 imports of maple products during the past four years : 



Maple products imported, from 1906 to 1909, inclusive. 



It is noted that there was a steady increase in the importation up 

 to 1909, when there was a decrease of nearly one-half. 



Eighty-six maple sirups were collected in the Province of Quebec 

 during this investigation. These were taken partly from the 

 receiving station of the Maple Tree Producers' Association, at 

 Waterloo, and partly from the makers' camps. The season was 

 nearly at a close when Canada was visited, so that no extensive 

 inspection of individual camps could be made; but inasmuch as 

 each maker must sign a guaranty that his sirup is pure and una- 

 dulterated, and furthermore, all sirups are liable to inspection from 

 time to time, it was thought that such samples could be relied 

 upon, and that, having been chosen at random, they would be fairly 

 representative. 



The maple sirup and sugar industry of Canada is confined princi- 

 pally to the four provinces lying just north of our border, beginning 

 at eastern Minnesota with Ontario and proceeding eastward through 

 Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. The Province of Quebec 

 is north of eastern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine; 

 New Brunswick is east of Maine, and Nova Scotia still farther east. 

 The Canadian census of 1901 gives the output of maple products as 

 follows : 



Province: Pounds. 



Quebec 13, 564, 819 



Ontario 3, 912, 640 



New Brunswick 207, 450 



Nova Scotia 112, 496 



All others 7,520 



Total 18,804,925 



