. The American farm book : or, Compend of American agriculture ; being a practical treatise on soils, manures, draining irrigation, grasses, grain, roots, fruits, cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, rice, and every staple product of the United States, with the best methods of planting, cultivating, and preparation for market ;illustrated by more than 100 engravings. Agriculture. MAPLE SUGAR. 2111 of the field now taken up by them and their banks, wjl be avoided ; there will be no damage lo the crop from exces- sive rains ; no baking on the surface, or washing ot the fmei particles of the earth into t
. The American farm book : or, Compend of American agriculture ; being a practical treatise on soils, manures, draining irrigation, grasses, grain, roots, fruits, cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, rice, and every staple product of the United States, with the best methods of planting, cultivating, and preparation for market ;illustrated by more than 100 engravings. Agriculture. MAPLE SUGAR. 2111 of the field now taken up by them and their banks, wjl be avoided ; there will be no damage lo the crop from exces- sive rains ; no baking on the surface, or washing ot the fmei particles of the earth into the ditches. The land taved by this system would pay for carrying it out; and sometimes, even a single crop would full) repay it, which might other- wise be lost by long continued rains. The cane would always be better, and could by no possibility be worse than it now is. Where there are stiff lands, and the object could be achieved by no other means than by the disposal of one half the plantation, it is probable the annual net profit de- rivable from the remainder, when thus improved, would be greater than the whole without it. A system of under- drainage, would of course, necessarily imply the use of lead- ing ditches and draining wheels, wherever adopted through- out the low-lands of the Mississippi Valley. Until this greai desideratum can be accomplished, the most complete arrano^e- ment of surface drains should be fully carried out. MAPLE SUGAR. The Sugar, Rock, or Hard Maple Tree (Acer sacckart' num, Fig. 46), is among our most beautiful shade, and most valuable forest trees ; and it stands next to the sugar cane in the readi- ness and abundance with which it yields the materials for cane sugar. When refined, there is no difference either in appearance or quality, between the sugar from the cane, the maple or the beet. In the brown state, Fig. 46. tliG Condition in which it is sent to market, when made with care and formed into solid cakes, it retains its peculiar moisture
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