. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 428 MAPLE-SUGAR MAPLE-SUGAR sold on the market. There is more incentive to improve a money crop than one vhich the family uses, and hence the industry developed rapidly. Processes were made more economical and labor- saving and the products more toothsome and cleaner. But, oddly enough, while quality was en- hanced to the last degree, no larger crops were harvested. The situation was and is an anomalous one. The consuming population of 1907 is thrice that of 1850, its purchasing power much greater and its per capita expenditure for food la
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 428 MAPLE-SUGAR MAPLE-SUGAR sold on the market. There is more incentive to improve a money crop than one vhich the family uses, and hence the industry developed rapidly. Processes were made more economical and labor- saving and the products more toothsome and cleaner. But, oddly enough, while quality was en- hanced to the last degree, no larger crops were harvested. The situation was and is an anomalous one. The consuming population of 1907 is thrice that of 1850, its purchasing power much greater and its per capita expenditure for food larger than ever before. The demand for maple products is many times the supply ; a good grade brings re- munerative prices, the work is done at a time when other farm work is not pressing, the crop is peren- nial, the draft on the soil slight, the material used of little value, the cost of apparatus once obtained but slight; and yet the supply is short. The reasons for a diminishing supply in the face of an increased demand are two. One is avoidable, the other unavoidable. They are adulteration and the weather. Prior to the passage of the pure food. The sugar-bush at the close of the season. Vermont, law it was aptly and probably truly said that there was ten times as much maple-syrup made in Chicago as in Vermont. The Chicago brand is made of glucose or cane-sugar, perhaps flavored with a little of the lowest grade and strongest tasting maple and perhaps not. The weather, however, is an all-controlling and uncontrollable factor, in that it may favor a long-continued flow or cause only brief and irregular runs. A day may make or mar the success of a crop. If the right sort of weather comes at just such a time, provided the wrong kind of weather has not preceded it, an average crop or better may be gathered. But, if seasonal conditions do not favor, the product may be but a half or a fourth of a crop; and nothing can be done to remedy this condition. Nature of the maple grove. (F
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