The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-03-19
THE SUGAR MAPLE.
A Glory In Summer and the Source o
n Delicious Luxury-Sparc thai Tree.

One of the leading maple sugar makers
OF Hampshire county claims that but very
few productions in the entire system of
New England agriculture, realize to the
farmer so largo profit as the man ufac
tur, Of that commodity. As prices have
averaged for the past ten years, it is GER
tainly feature of home industry we'll
worthy of consideration. Many of the
farmers on tue hills, who own and utilize
large sugar orchards, have become con.
WINGED by practical experience that it is
one of their very best paying harvests, TO-
bacco alone yielding, perhaps, larger
not profit. Nature has appointed this har.
vest at season when the farmer can ac-
,complish but little other labor to advan-
tage, and, unless he is engaged In tn Is CO.
cupatiou, his time and efforts will yield
him but little remuneration; yet, without
taking this point into account, even did
the work come at any other time in the
year, it would pay grandly. Maple sy
rup and sugar hold high price in the
market, and without doubt will sustain
their perscnt rates, with probabilities o I
advance in the future.
In the face of these facts, It's certainly
somewhat a matter of mystery why
large proportion of our farmers should
manifest such an utter indifference TO the
preservation and perpetuity ofsugar mo-
pie. In no other part Of the country does
it flourish so naturally and vigorously as
among the Green mountains aud wherev-
or its delicious sweets are extracted, it
repays the owner tbree-fold for the labor.
Still our maple groves and forests are rap
idly disappearing, and at the present rate
Of decrease, another half century will wit
ness their almost utter humiliation.
The process Of making maple-sugar is
evidently destined to become one Of the
'lost arts unless some special interposi-
tion stays this work Of destruction. The
demand for broom handles and other ar
ticles of utility into which this wood is
converted is Unsuitable. Thousands Of our
grand old emerald-crowned monarchs Of
the forest are sacrificed to this demand
annually, and Of course the aggregate
amount Of sugar manufactured must de-
crease in ratio with the decrease of the
material from which 1t is derived. 1t
will soon become luxury in the market,
commanding price that must teach eve
ny shrewd and sensible owner of maple
orchards the expediency, even in u pecun-
larry sense, of preserving this beautiful
feature Of our New England landscape.
By all means, then, let our maple forests
escape the invasion Of that dire energy
and cupidity, which are so rapidly and
recklessly dismantling our lovely hills and
valleys of their primitive grandeur and
luxuriance. The maple grove, once des-
troyed, caanot easily be replaced. Its re-
production is the slow, lingering work Of
time; and it behooves the lumberman to
remember this important fact when he
puts the ak to its root. The perpetuity Of
the delicious luxury obtained from the SUI
gar maple is not the only incentive TO the
preservation of thai tree. In pictorial
sense alone, with its wealth Of unparallel.
ed greenhess and verdure in summer, and
it's marvellous mosaic Of leafy glory in au-
tumn, it is worthy Of . woodland immor-
tality.-[Sprinheld Republican.