The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-10
AGRICULTURAL CENSUS
less Than Han the Maple Trees in
This County Tapped.

This County Tapped.
Montpelier, Oct. 6.--Secretary Of
State Guy w. Bailey has completed
he compiling OF the returns from
The town clerks made to his office In
accordance with No. 46 of the public
acts Of 1912, which required the lis
ers. to ascertain approximately how
4 many maple trees were tapped, the
4 number Of maple trees not tapped
and available, and how many pounds
If maple sugar and how many gal
.ons OF maple syrup were made by
each person engaged in the manu-
lacture of maple sugar or syrup dui
ne the year. The act also provided
Tor a census OF the nllmbc.' OF horses
mich cows, hoes and other stool.
Tor the current year, and, in quads
fennial years beginning with 1913,
The total number of acres of tillage,
pasture land, orchard land and for
est or Woodland.
a Returns are in from all excepting
10 towns, and the towns which have
iailed to report are Dorset, Woodford
South Burlington, Bloomfield, Yer
hire, Derby, Warren, Putney, Caven
dish and Walden.
This Is the fist census OF the mum
Der of maple trees tapped and UNI
apped which are available, that has
ever taken in this state, and up TO
his time it has been a matter oil
guess as TO the number of maple
.rees the stale contained. The in
crmation was collected by the list.
,rs who made their report to the
own clerks who then made return
the secretary of state.
according to the statistics furnish
ID, tie three towns making the most
maple sugar are Cambridge, Mont
,omery and Greensboro.
A summary of the census fot the
,ntirc state follows
Maple trees available not
tapped 4,SUS.9f7
Maple trees tapped 5,07b,3T5
POUNDS Of maple sugar made $500
Gallons of maple syrup made 455,4QS
Number OF horses TS.025
Mich cows 227039
Oxen 1861
Other meat stock 1885,
swine, iB.i4.
Sheep. 6f90i
Ncfes OF tfllage land E046 ig5
Acrcs of pasture land i.lS0.5Si
Acres OF orcha Il land 16,i5t
Acres lof forest or woodland 1,6Si,35S
Orleans county makes The most ms
lie sdga and Windham county the
most syrup. Two counties. Orange
nd Franklin. make more than 1000,
100 pounds OF sugar Five Counties
Oregon, Franklin, Lamoille, Caledo
MIA aud Washington make rom 800
800 to f,5O0UO0 pounds OF sugar.
Addison, Remington, Grand Isle
Orange, Rutland. Washington and
Windsor counties had moro maple
trees not tapped Than tapped. Frank
lin county has The most mich cows.
Windsor the most horses. oxen aud
other meat stock, Washington the !
most swine, Addison the most sheep
and the most acres Of tlllage land
Windsor the most pasture land and
the ilost acres OF orchard land, and
Windham the most acres OF forest
land.
A comparison with the 1912 United
States census shows a falling OFF in
SUNNI ultNtlOlS, MHlCu may bt uut
to two reasons. in complete reports
by listers in some particulars and an
off season in the maple sugar crop.
This census shows THAI the number
or gallons of maple syrup made were
i55,40S, maple sugar G,6S2 ,063 pounds
compared with 409,653 gallons of sy.
rup and 7.726,sl7 pounds OF sugar as
reported by the United States cen
sus, The number of no SEES reported
were 7s,025 compared with SO,7Sl in
United States census; milch cows
227034, reported by United States
ccnsuc 265, iSS; all cattle 3i5,253, re-
ported by United States census $780,
S1i; swine iS,44l, reported by Unit.
BOZ, reported by United States cen.
cd States census 9i,S2l; sheep Ca.
sus 1851.
Report by counties on most impor
tant item follows. .tlie
Mamie Trees