Walter. M Gaylord dripping the boiled-down maple syrup to see if it has reached the correct consistency for maple syrup. Making maple syrup on King evaporator. Waitsfield, Mad River Valley, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees, because of deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms, in this particular farm unit there are eighty acres. It has been in the family three generations, has about thirty-five or forty head of cattle; raises poultry and potatoes