Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-04-05

On. OF our reporters, while on hi.
rounds. Tuesday morning, noticed V"ht-
Gle commonly called a buck board, pulled
up by the side Of Main 81.
The gentleman was apparently In The
maple sugar business. and the boxes under
the barrels were iilled with the sweet hearts
and squares that crumhle and melt 80 de-
liCiously in ones mouth.
lie was interviewed Ivy the reporter.
lie was Mr.. l. Il. Bearcc OF Hebron. Siid
Mr.. Il. II brought down POO pounds Of
sugar this morning. aud I've sold out all
but fny pounds. came from Hebron.
That's where lots of your syrup comes
fiom. Most all the maple sugar in this
market now came from Hebron. It's a
great maple country. I'm getting - aud
I6 cents pound for the sugar at whole
sale, to-day. It's the pure stuff. We gen
orally make more syrup than sugar, hut
syrup i drug in the market, this year,
and don't hrin. nothing, scarcely, so were
,ugaring II of
How many trees have you:.
Eve tapped $50 trees. have made
about $50 pounds OF sugar, and don't know
how much more shall make. this year.
"Ilow much syrup do YOU usually make
In n season. from your $50 trecSg'
Take year in and year out, make about
loo gallons a season. One gallon OF syrup
vii make eight pounds OF sugar,-and
that's 500 pounds. | have made 1000
hounds Ia a season, but that Is an extra
good year.
you call this favorable year, do you
nOt:"
ayes pretty fair year. It's been cold
nights. and when It's cold nights. you're
all right. The list two or three days IL
hasn't run much OF any, but before that
we had all we could DO 20 attend 10 the
sap"
Il suppose there arc great many naples
In Hebron:
Goodness, yes. There are two or thre"
thousand trees running within half mile
OF nv house There's W. l.. Gurney-h'es
got the most-he's got COO trees. lie don't
get much more syrup from them than do
from my $50. because his trees are thicker
together than mine. Abial Bowman ha>
got 400 trees. Fred Paris has 20. 400
trees. Charles II. George has got $50 trees
or more. There | can't begin 10 tell them
There are thirty or forty farmers right in
our ueighbOrhood. who will make on an
average 30 gallons OF syrup apiece, this
year.-Some more and some less.
How much does a tree OF verage size,
aud Ia a fair location, generally yield, In
a good season =
About II gallons from real good tree,
should saw. We calculIte 1t takes 1 gal
Ions OF the clear sap TO make a pound Of
sugar.
"Weall of u have sugar camps, and we
have them rugged much more convenient
than we use TO. when we had To boil our
sap In pots and kettles, we used To work
nights Now we have large, galvanized
iron syrup pans 10 boil the sap in. They're
seven or eight inches deep, and will hold
about barrel Of sap apiece"
Does II pay you pretty wellt'
Eyes, | calculate TO get about 500 out
OF ii every, year, at time when | couldn't
do much else.
Another Hebron gentleman told our re-
porter that his sap ran so fast he couldn't
catch up with il until last Saturday night.
Mr.. Austin OF Pennington, buys a great
part of the syrup in his vicinity. He has
sent about 1000 gallons to Lewiston alone,
this season. Pennington has furnished
the most of our syrup. aud Hebron the
most of our sugar.