Walter Gaylord drilling hole in maple tree to get sap which is boiled down into maple syrup. Mud 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 eightty acres. It has been in family three generations. Has about thirty-five to forty head of cattle; raises poultry and potatoes