American Agriculturist, March 17,1923 
rience, and the only way out is to 
charge off the loss and begin over. 
I received a letter recently from 
a Canton, N, Y., man who ships horses 
from Dakota and written from there. 
He says: “Conditions, I think, are a 
little better than last year. Can’t say 
as prices are any better, or any more 
money in circulation, but they are get¬ 
ting used to closer times.” What I am 
saying in no way disguises the fact 
that farm products prices, especially 
cereals, were officially kept down at the 
outset of the war, while many other 
products were allowed at a cost-plus 
plan. All that sort of troube has gone, 
and the spilled-milk philosophy applies. 
Now we must charge up our losses, quit 
finding fault, go to work, back up our 
great national organizations and begin 
to dig into better farming and dairying 
than ever before, and we will soon pay 
up our losses as the French did the war 
indemnity following the Franco-Prus- 
sian war. _ 
Maple Sirup Organization 
“Coming Back” 
(Continued from page 238) 
Therefore, in order to avoid inoculation 
of the sap during the latter part of the 
season, remedial measures in the way 
of sanitation are necessary if the qual¬ 
ity of the sirup is to excell in all re¬ 
spects. 
Sanitation as Essential as with Milk 
The same methods of sanitation 
apply in the production of maple sirup 
as in the production of pure milk. All 
utensils used must be kept clean and 
free from dirt or other harboring places 
for bacteria. Metal buckets and gath¬ 
ering and storage tanks are superior 
to wooden ones. The development of 
bacteria can be checked by frequent 
collections of sap and immediate con¬ 
centration by boiling. 
Covered buckets keep out rain and 
snow, which may carry impurities from 
the air or from the branches and trunks 
of the trees. They also prevent broken 
twigs and bits of bark from falling into 
the sap, discoloring it and introducing 
bacteria which may be adhering to 
them. Bacteria may accumulate in con¬ 
siderable numbers in the tap hole, and 
the rimming out of the holes as the 
season advances may remove a great 
deal of contamination from this source. 
Retapping in the Later Season 
Another method of eliminating dam¬ 
age from this source is to retap the 
tree toward the latter part of the sea¬ 
son. This gives a fresh run of sap 
fj’ee from bacteria, and if the spouts 
and buckets are cleansed at the same 
time, and the sap collected frequently 
and boiled immediately, may yield a 
product of quality equal to the sirup 
from the earlier runs of the season. 
Sap which must be held in storage 
before boiling should be kept as cool as 
possible to prevent the increase of bac¬ 
teria. For this reason the storage tanks 
should be outside the suga^" house. 
_ The observation of the above sugges¬ 
tions should not materially increase the 
cost of producing maple sirup, and, on 
the other hand, should prove of value to 
the maple-sugar industry by helping to 
maintain a marketable product of high 
standard quality. —Benson H. Paul. 
Renting Systems Changing 
An interesting development coming 
from the hard times which farmers 
in the Central West are having, is 
the change from a cash rent to a share 
basis that is taking place in operating 
farms. A recent survey made by the 
United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture in Indiana shows that in one 
county 87 farmers were reported as 
renting for cash in 1920, but that this 
method of renting has practically dis¬ 
appeared since that time.^ In another 
county where there were 340 cash 
rented farms, more than half of them 
have changed to a share basis. Many 
farmers who contracted to pay large 
rents in 1920 and 1921 have lost every¬ 
thing. Cash rents ranging from $7 
to $12 an acre in 1919i, have been re¬ 
duced $7 to $10 an acre. The land- 
owners have suffei'ed too, for after the 
and repair bills were paid there 
fvas not much left. 
I never was more pleased with your 
paper than now.—Charles D. Rhodes, 
Uempstead, N. Y. 
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