Pipe line, through which sap runs to sugar house. The sap from sugar maple trees is piped into the house where it is boiled down into maple syrup. Mad River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. Walter Gaylord place. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, but this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees, becaue of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms; in this particular unit there are eighty acres. It has been in family for three generations. Has about thirty-five or forty head of cattle, raises poultry and potatoes
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Public domain photograph - historical image of Vermont, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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Date
01/01/1940
Contributors
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
Location
Waitsfield (Vt.), 44.19000, -72.82472
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html