News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-05
THE MAPLE TREE

Is it to destroy a rich productive
asset, is an immediate cash reception
/ for valuable self sustaining produc-
tive asset a profitable exchange for
the farmer under certain conditions,
in other words are the farmers in
the State of Vermont increasing the
selling productive value of their
farms by selling their most profitable
producing output, their sugar or
chards, does the farmer realize that
when he allows a lumberman to enter
his forest and take away his sugar
place that he invites a sacrilege upon
the order of nature and for all time
takes from him and his farm an as
set, the product of the soil that yields
him larger income for the amount
of labor expended than any other
source that his farm holds out to
him, does he realize that he has no
labor to perform for the maple tree
by way of cultivation, the tree stands
there thing of beauty, responsive to
the mutilation that is inflicted upon
it by delivering a hector that chal-
lenges its equal and when rendered
to a desire consistency has a flavor
and health giving qualities that chal-
lenges the product of any other
growth and produce this desirable
product, its arrival comes at season
of the year when the farmer has time
at his disposal that otherwise used
would not be comparable. With
modern methods, quantity and
quality is produced that in many in
stances exceeds the results of all
other products of the farm.
A careful and discreet sugar
maker informed me that he had con-
tracted a ton of maple sugar for
$4,000 and if the season is produc-
tive this will be but a fraction of
what he will market. Do you, Mr..
farmer, think that your farm will
have the attendent increase in value
and selling capacity with your sugar
place in stumps that it would have
in standing trees,---if so l would adj
wise that you attend some agricul- |
turial college where nothing by the
ology is taught. The product of the
maple tree is just coming to its own,
a sugar place with 1900 trees will !
produce a net income in excess of |
that from a 25-cow farm. The dairy |
farmer has only one advantage--he |
can have his cows tested and if they |
are responsive, sell them for twice |
what they are worth and the state
will pay for them, if it imposes a
dollar state tax, if your maple tree
dies, creamate it.
What is the State of Vermont |
doing in Connection with the preser-
walton of it's beauty productive for
ests, | ask the question, organiza-
tions are aiding the producer in
securing the highest price for his
product. How about the goose that
lays the golden egg, anything doing
--only by the man that\ comes into
your front yard and would seduce
you into the belief that little ready |
cash is worth more to you than a !
yearly income, a farm |
with a productive sugar orchard is |
worth twice as much as one with !
stumps and advance in price is /,
young. When was a boy, the for !
ests of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois !
was made up of black-walnut and I
oak, they stood in the way of the
pioneer and felled them, made fence
rails or burned them, what is the re-
suits, the lumber from that class of
timber today is worth from two and
fifty to five hundred dollars a thous-
and, the same conditions will over {
take the sugar maple unless the own
er insists upon valuation that will
insure their protection beyond the
financial ability of the would be pur-
chaser and destroyer.-W. H. Parker,
Cambridge, VT.