. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. Fig. 649. The sagar-bash at the close of the season. \ ^ri—nt 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 uncon
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. Fig. 649. The sagar-bash at the close of the season. \ ^ri—nt 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. (Fig. 649.) There are several sorts of maples known to bot- anists, but only two are of importance as sugar- producers,—the sugar or rock maple (Acer saccha- rinum, Fig. 452) and the red maple (Acer rubrum), the former being the more common one in the East. [Unfortunately, the specific name saccharinum has been revived recently by some botanists for the silver maple (.1. (la.^ncarpum) which is not a prom- inent sugar-producing species, thus restoring, to no purpose, a confusion of the earlier botanists.] The sugar maple is a stately forest tree, at home on the cool uplands and rocky hillsides of western New England, the Adirondack region in eastern New York, the Western Reserve of Ohio and along the Appalachian region as far south as the Caro- linas. In all these regions it is a commercial tree, either as a source of sugar, of timber, or of both. The red or swamp maple grows along stream bor- ders and on the
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