MAPLE PRODUCTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1940, Page 5

MAPLE PRODUCTS

BIG CANADIAN INDUSTRY. OTTAWA. Canada's output of maple products in the spring of 1940 was 20 per cent higher than last year’s although the season, as the previous one, was short and late. .The quality was said to be much higher also. On the basis of ten pounds of maple sugar being equal to one gallon of maple syrup, the total production this year of maple sugar and maple syrup is estimated at 3,099,000 gallons, as compared with 2,592,200 gallons in 1939 and with the preceding five-year average of 2,631,400 gallons. The farm production of maple sugar amounted to only 11 per cent of the total crop, the same percentage as in 1939. Production of maple syrup totalled 2,755,200 gallons and the farm make of maple sugar amounted to 3,437,500 pounds. These estimates show increases of 453,000 gallons of syrup and 537,300 pounds of sugar as compared with a ’production of 2,302,200 gallons of syrup and 2,900.200 pounds of sugar in 1939. Prices paid to producers for the 1940 crop were higher than in the previous year. The combined 1940 production of maple sugar and syrup was valued at 4,209,300 dollars, which when compared with 3,443,900 dollars in 1939, shows an increase of 22 per cent. Total exports of maple syrup and maple sugar, expressed as maple syrup, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1940, were 882,348 gallons, compared with 773,544 gallons in 1939. Practically all exports go to the United States whose short crop this year was the main reason for the large increase in exports.