Vermont Still Life-This stump of a once-pound maple tree at West Dover, Vt., bears a sap bucket hung by some Vermonter with a touch of dry Yankee humor. Estimated to be 150 years old when in its prime, the maple once wore three and four buckets during the spring "sugar season."
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Vermont Still Life-This stump of a once-pound maple tree at West Dover, Vt., bears a sap bucket hung by some Vermonter with a touch of dry Yankee humor. Estimated to be 150 years old when in its prime, the maple once wore three and four buckets during the spring "sugar season."

Associated Press · [ca. February 1955]

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[Information from item housing] Maple Sugar

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