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increase in quantity in proportion to the length of time the tree has been 
tapped.” 
Professor Sargent (Silva of North America, ii. = from whom the 
llows 
above extracts have been taken, quotes as fo 
* Sugar making begins with the upward fow m the crude sap, or 
is early or late, and continues during three or fo rees 20 or 
30 years old are considered the most productive ieu ield the purest 
sugar, although sap can be drawn from the tree year after year without 
seriously injuring it. "Trees exist = northern NN ork which are 
of sugar, or Ps to 31 ounces per gallon. Individual trees, 
wever, Meter in productiveness; an hose sanang by 
themselves HTT ground, with a large development of r and 
branches, Suid yield more sap than trees crowded together’ in the 
forest. The highest per-centage of sugar recorded is 10° *20 for a tree 
in Vermont, in a small flow late in the season, 5°01 per cent. being the 
average of th = ore Se the season.” (Wiley, Bull. 51, Chem. Div. 
T Mh i8 
x “The following article takeh foi the Louisiana Planter, February 
2, 1895, gives the present production of maple sugar in the United 
; es :— 
“ During the existence of the bounty law it was thought that data 
would be secured covering the entire production of maple sugar in the 
United States, but the great number o pue producers who made no 
applieation for the bounty, owing to the small amounts involved, has 
rendered the data very incomplete, although the total production of this 
article is far greater than most pers e rom the last report of 
the same production. From this it would scem that the total produetion 
of maple sugars in the United States exceeds 10,000,000 pounds, and as 
this jus is sold as candy rather than sugar, and as an immense 
amount of maple molasses or syrup is sold without being manufactured 
‘into sugar, it is evident that the total rent of sugar and syrup 
from maple sap reaches about $1,000,000 annually. 
^ — Hampshire leads in maple sugar eim with a yield of 
5,000,000 pounds. New York follows with the produetion 
nop us 1,500,000 pounds, Pennsylvania about half a million, Ohio 
a — less than half a million, other ptum reporting smaller quantities. 
r 8,600,000 trees were tapped to produce 7,500,000 pounds of 
ird indicating an average production of about two pound: per tree 
per season 
Brigade e-Sak eon Aitchison, C.I.E., F.R.S., who was much interak 
in the introduction of the sugar maple into Kashmir, applied to Kew fo 
 nssistan taining a supply seed. After some difficulty a 
sufficient quantity was obtained through the kind offices of Messrs. 
. Thomas Meehan & Son, of Germantown, Philadelphia, and des 
to Indi, Te in the letter of advice :—“ You are no doubt 
