. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 134 MAPLE-SUGAR MEADOWS AND PASTURES ness with the refined sugars and syrups made from sugar-cane and sugar-beets for simple sweetening purposes. But for syrup as a table luxury there is nothing to compare or compete with it. For a strictly fancy article, in the writer's opinion, the price will increase year by year because popula- tion and wealth increase and the maple-groves diminish, and are not beiijg much replanted, though they might well be. Some twen
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. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 134 MAPLE-SUGAR MEADOWS AND PASTURES ness with the refined sugars and syrups made from sugar-cane and sugar-beets for simple sweetening purposes. But for syrup as a table luxury there is nothing to compare or compete with it. For a strictly fancy article, in the writer's opinion, the price will increase year by year because popula- tion and wealth increase and the maple-groves diminish, and are not beiijg much replanted, though they might well be. Some twenty-five years ago the writer planted about two hundred young trees along the roadsides, and now they are nearly large. i: Fig. 659. The making of hay, where hay is cheap; it is a wasteful method. enough to tap ; and, with clean turf to the edge, of the stone pike, they, make a beautiful boule- yard out of a common country road. ' Closing up.—At the close of the season all vessels ahd utensils should be scalded, washed and wiped, and stored " in the dry, " the buckets not "nested, " so that they will not rust. Then the large shed should be filled with fine wood for the next season's boiling. Thus stored, old rails, limbs and partly rotten wood, unfit for sale, will do yery well with a little sound wood. Such wood dried ten months under cover makes the most rapid boiling and the best quality of syrup. Utilizing . the product.—Nearly the entire Ohio crop is made into best syrup with apparatus'much like that described above, and isvsolji as a luxury costing the consumer $1 to $1.40 per gallon. Per- haps one-tenth of the crop is" made into "maple cream, " a delicious, almost white, , soft, creamy candy, that sells at twenty to thirty cents per pound. It is made by boiling best-grade syrup a little less than it is boiled to make the hard, coarse- grained cake sugar. While hot it is rapidly stirred till it comes to a thick, whitish, creamy condition