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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
COMMON FALL MUSHROOM. 
An excellent article of food growing commonly in old pasture fields. 
Range: Temperate and tropical regions all over the world. Photo- 
graph by G. Clyde Fisher. 
still where it is heated over a furnace. This drives off 
the turpentine or “spirits” as steam or vapor, which is 
condensed to liquid again by passing through the worm 
of the still surrounded by cold water. The rosin or 
resin is left behind. 
The Sugar Maple grows from Florida and Texas 
northward to Manitoba and Quebec, but it is only in the 
northern part of its range that the maple sugar industry 
thrives. This delicious food is one of the many that 
we learned to utilize from the Indians. The sap is ob- 
tained by tapping the tree in the spring before the leaves 
come out, the best weather for the flow of sap being 
that when it freezes at night and thaws in the daytime. 
The sap is boiled down; that is, the water is driven off 
and the sugar remains. It takes about three gallons, or 
a little more, of sap to make a pound of maple sugar. 
