CHAPTER X 

 BY-PRODUCTS OF THE NORTHERN WOODLOT 



By-products of timber-cropping are very many. They 

 are the products other than timber and wood. The tur- 

 pentine and rosin industry of the South, the making of 

 many medicinal extracts and the securing of dyes are 

 good examples. In some cases, as with the turpentine 

 industry, the by-product may be actually the most impor- 

 tant product commercially. The secondary or by-prod- 

 ucts of the farm woodlot are not many. The most im- 

 portant ones in the North may be mentioned, however. 



MAPLE SIRUP AND SUGAR 



Practically every woodlot, whether natural or planted, 

 contains some maple trees that may be used in the pro- 

 duction of maple sirup and sugar for the home. The 

 early settlers obtained all of their sugar from this source, 

 and the Indians made sugar from the maples long before 

 this country was inhabited by the white man. To-day 

 maple sirup and sugar are delicacies and command such 

 a high price that substitutes with an artificial maple flavor 

 have come into use. Comparatively small amounts of 

 maple sirup and sugar are now produced for the market, 

 but it is not unusual to find many rural families producing 

 sufficient of this delicacy for home consumption from the 

 maple of their own woodlot, or even from the shade maples 

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