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IAPt—Maple trees are taking pills for spring fever these days.

Even as you and I. sugar maples get tired of working when hit by the first warm breezes.

The farmers aren‘t taking pills. They feel fine. A bumper cash crop of maple syrup seems certain from the annual rite of "suzarin' off" in New England this season T ,1

Farmers pop the magic little? pill into the maples when they " first drill a tap hole. i

The pill makes the watery sap flow later in the season ensur-‘ lng a longer “run"~as long as l the combination of warm daysf and snappy nights lasts. i ,"l'm sure they help." says: hirk Heath. "I tested several hundred trees. marked them 3 with paint. The trees with pills ‘ Eire more sap over a longerl season." His sugar house is on ‘ land farmed by his family since before the US. revolution. 1

Farmers always have becnl puzzled when certain trees 1, seemed to run dry. Federal and g state agricultural experts stud-1 led the problem. They found l that the flow of sap was slowed by the growth of micro-organ-l isms in the wound caused by. the drill hole. l

The pills act as germicidesi over the length of the "sugarin' i Olf' season which in New Eng 1 land runs from late February i through March and April. d9- Dending on the locality. l

Any residue of the pill is‘ boiled away in making syrup ‘

odern maple farmers suchi u the 54-year-old Heath have i been able to stay in businesst only by abandoning most of the i quaint and traditional ways of harvesting s . ,

Ma“Mover costs too much to‘ Wood individual buckets from “Veral thousand trees every morning. Heath uses about six miles of plastic tubing to con- {Iheft 3.000 hillside trees. so that

} sap flows downhill to big collecting tanks. USES namo Certain 1 flow earlier from Parts of tho hillside first. warmed by the morning sun. Heath use: wanna-talkie radios

to talk to his men in the W006i Ind muto tho-flow of up down-

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While most farmers realize that limo is essential for good crop production on the ' soils of Eastern Canada. many don’t know the “lime requirc~ ment." of tihoir land.

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For such specific information he recommends having a soil sample analyzed in a labora- tory. There the staff can ascer- tain tihe sample‘s pH—tlie mea- sure of its acidity or alkalinity~

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g .howed excellent establishment at a slightly lower pH range of 5.5 to 6.0 but the density of the establisaed award was greatest at a pH 6.2 to 6.5.

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