THE AGRICORIURAL, GAZETTE. 
ee — 
e agricultt 
s pamphlet on — = aac he — out 
the poor tans of “high fa 
ut whic 
e was 
y set down as a speculative enthusiast 
ermen glim inisa No one knows better than 
Me Cairn, of Baldoon, the nates of 
y | may be dearer to the sugar maker than Beet at 15s. 
tical feeling ; ; nor the powers o of the Eng 
2 satire and invective. Since this fret storm which | 
to weather he has been 1 — our 
—— know, by the Times paper, 
mission to enquire and report on the condition of 
and; and it is to introduce the 
volume ot his collected ar rem published by 
Loweman and Co,“ t 
their author. It is — 4 to attempt the the —.— 
oli 
arated 1 
thus referred to befor 
to this effect. Since, 
of the success 
seen,” he says, “estimates of t -sugar manu- 
facture, in which 885 2 per acre is often taken 
at 20 or 40 tons, as may eadily obtained ; but | A 
in m Sty case there is little or no sugar. It has ‘been 
used in forming the woody matter of the roots, and 
hence the light crop above described is finally the 
most productive.” Beet, therefore, at 10s. the ton, 
In case our predictions respecting the unsucessful 
issue of the ec experiment should be realised, i 
an 
is there nothing else to 
desirous of superseding tropical by home grown 
sugar can turn their attention? What say they to 
Maple sugar? Professor Jcunston, in his“ Notes 
on North America,” bears — to its excel- 
ence; and it has long fo 
item of rural industry in Canada ‘hd the 3 
states of the Union. It there affords valuable 
aid to the poorer class of settlers, by supplying 
them with an — readily converted at the 
— — into money, which settlers of this 
class ap faa for ‘the purchase of necessaries | 
can be produced from their own 
Maple trees seat, they plunge 
ey who are 
2 
they 
Ad. Where 
is about a 
In 
sugar. The trees are tapped in March l April, 
fac t, 
direction of ng y 
free i the wind changes to south, the flow 
Produce ; the ae æ — a may be- presu 
to be Prof. For tree is — att | 
be more ciate eat an ea one, and is stated tọ 
be fit for sugar making when the base of the trunk 
foot in diameter. It is fey ted ‘also the 
a great height, 
ees attain and a crowned bya 
dense mass sof foliage. If trees possessing these con- 
ditions would stand five yards a b should 
have 154 trees to the acre ; if they uld require 
oe — Si yards, there would *. — more than 
48. 
criticism of this work in a single artic s| into the woods, in n, and a y . as the average price of the 
of it we shall hereafter call the atte ‘toe 22 our will thus make, in a few wee ae lbs. of Sagat, the a one-fifth would be in the former case 10s, 
readers. Many of es are already well acquainted | worth from 3d. to 6d. the poise, In 1848, e per a With regard to soil, 
with 3 petfo — wer * * piecemeal in than 4,000,000 Ibs. of this sugar w — s the Maple is one of those hard woods which in 
ita that pollo neve 7 sily Canada, West, or nearly 6 Ths for each inhabitant, | America are considered 4 . Borih ae 
2. 250.00 rofessor Jonnston found i urishing on th 
the ee gen Tes o No doubt The two provinces may be fairly supposed to yield Niagara and limestones ; he not 
ed character of the investigation impressed | some 7 ,000,000 lbs., or one-fourth of their total think that it particularly affects calcareous soils, 
a, “on pei ter rte 4 ney or ror co sumption s sugar; t the total quantity inarte ed | We may expect it to thrive here on those enh 
E een a fu i aa ng 1 from the West Indies ses to 20,000, so Ibs. the chalk and other strata, which are extens 
1 ü be 11191 . As regards the United States, the Report o f the under coppice, — ta which the common 
3 abl 8 — —— ave aes ully selected | Patent-office for 1847 estimated the Maple- -sugar is indigenous. ength of so Bii. must 
y Shieh the ei e general crop of ampshire, for that year, elapse before a dare of Suga e would, 
-Tesults to ole inv — conducts 2,250,000 lbs.; Vermont, 10,0000 Ibs. ; New | come into b ecludes the probability of the 
exhibi tk, 12,000,000 Ibs.; but as # re sai nol that 3 of a Maple-sugar Co mpany, as 
e — Michigan at 3,250,000 Ibs., ety not | to the t-sugar — A of Ireland ; * U 
is rapid n the 8 o have exceeded 1,774,368 "hat in 18 8, a very not en any landowner in 
R Question the Irish — sugar year, it would appear — the ee wa is satisfied that it miery eventually ber 
Sagar Beet Company. "ks will then b be seen whether of that office are not much to be r on. The e. The trees might be planted in copped | 
e ws maintained 8 18 0 tained an rev in the tree the distances at whi was intended that they 
88 or those adopted by Mr. Suruvan, and collecting the sap. The sap that flows, in Should stand when arrived at maturity. In the 
were the most 41 diyat present, April, is clear, colourless, and tasteless; but interim, they would not interfere with the periodical 
K oit es for the success of the under- b eet after standing a day or two. A cutting of the un When the Maple begat 
ng, is, that if the speculation shall turn out few days after the tree has begun to run, the sap to yield sugar, the ee — bbed, aul 
profitable, it must be from different data than those flows sweet e last sap that flows g|the land rass; which would be 
given in Mr. Suunivan’s calculations. With Beet an inferior s The manufacturing process con- improved by the dare of ‘te Teves The 
at va ‘the ton, and — the ewt., and the | sists in boiling the sap in earthen glazed pots, when Principal question, therefore will the deer 
ces, at once, a beautifully white sugar, Seccharinum yield a as much ‘oat in our ehmal 
particularly if drained in moulds, and clayed like as in must surely be in this 
th 7 ommon loaf sugar: in state ~ cann — country a — number of trees of this 
ar distinguished from Cane-sugar. It how er, | large en ough to furnish experimentally a 
that d general y preted brown, and the daiat the better, ans ii this question. 
' e: maple flavour whi ch, thoug OCT A ES ERE D 
and in novel to the stranger, is soon relished. BEST MODE OF APPLYING ARTIFICIAL 
* The manufacture of Maple-sugar does not, however, MANUREsS. 
; re agg het col pa ihe sie — of s ` In reply to saon annig was to me, in a 3 
4 ” r orth America | PY n 
1 9 the sugar es in ‘eating pire lands, . — ! * = * rs od 
KR found on te sga” as aii : 
and CAMPBELL, eat mim geeiert „ bor Potatoes, in Page — > 
‘out on an average, a pound of sugar each. à trees maine * ee i 
Pale A i d i i 1 F : — 
afer jar ied as much as s three or four pounds, 5 e — — beneficial 
Berges e | seasons, , are more favourable than 3 effect if 42 1 
— n ee poun isa faira ugar atlowe 8 thorou ria 
1 ‘they will kag Sener or later: by the makers rent these trees at the rate of one-fifth of the soil. After sufficient time fe 
of Can , the advantage which Beet agar regak price ot 4 me 5e. five t | pli of this, the former, if of a caustic 
101 em em i Th ce ay 2 of a „Major being previously blended with twice or thrice its 
t pie 3 a í re exc 
tr ry that the French sugar-makers should . i descripti 
i reenen xid better English market, ean be cotained ewan = PEE Hla | ES pers tah foeta chal iene phate 
for the more distant and inferior Irish market. 1 ert r a. application of the in stiff soils, and hy Awe pet 
E 3 an S Aa ad wee Ne rin b is, latter if of a lig 
ve also received 7 prings up beneath E 
a B the . If it will pay to form plantations eae we 
: of sugar Maple in Canada, it may be asked why i q“ ee 
ah y 1t plants with the artificial lication. 
ould not be equally profitable to in the erop cultivated, I think i 
: 2 Before this question i the additional trouble will be found 
information is requested on the following points :— | repaid by the increase of produce api 
Whether the sugar Maple, Acer saccharinum, will = tha 
| be as productive of sugar here as in America? How employed by him of guano, 
many trees of sufficient size to yield a pound of tration of his Potatoes, were mixed wi 
sugar each will stand on an acre? And the kind of Without mentioning what quantities of 
> jiandon: which the tree will flourish ? With respect | plied, or the nature of the soil itself; 
tije the first question, it appears that even in the |r, 
country in which the sugar Mapl failure in the result he derived which may 
ugi aple is indigenous, | from his ; 
. has a considerable influence on the yield of | nouri 1 
In b 
instances, undoubtedly err; I mean; by 
