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ing the sap from them would be ranch less than 
if they stood widely scattered, as they do in 
their natural state., and of course the expence 
of making the sugar would be considerably 
lessened. Added to this, if young maples were 
constantly set out in place of the other trees, 
as they were cut down, the estate,, at the end 
of twenty years, would yield ten times as much 
sugar as it did originally. 
It has been asserted, that the difficulty of 
maintaining horses and men in the wood at 
the season of the year proper for making the 
sugar would he so great, as to render every 
plan for the manufactory of the .sugar on an 
extensive scale abortive. This might be very 
true, perhaps, in the United States, where the 
subject has been principally discussed, and 
where it is that this objection lias been made; 
but it would not hold good in Canada. Many 
tracks, containing live thousand acres each, 
of sugar 'maple land, might be procured in 
various parts of the country, no part of any of 
which would be more than six English miles' 
distant from a populous village. The whole 
labour of boiling in each year would be over 
in the space of six weeks ; the trouble there- 
fore of carrying food during that period, for 
the men and. horses that were wanting for the 
manufactory, from a village into the woods, 
would be trifling, and a tew huts might be 
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