Son of Walter Gaylord putting on snowshoes before going to gather sap from sugar maple trees. The snow was so deep that snowshoes were necessary to get around on. Mad River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees, because of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms; in this particular farm unit there are eighty acres.It has been in family three generations. Has about thirty-five or forty head of cattle, raises poultry and potatoes
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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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Date
01/01/1940
Location
united states
Source
Library of Congress
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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