Paraformaldehyde pellet not necessary in vacuum-pumped maple sap system

H. Clay Smith; Carter B. Gibbs

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Paraformaldehyde pellet not necessary in vacuum-pumped maple sap system

Informally Refereed

Authors:

H. Clay Smith, Carter B. Gibbs

Year:

1970

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Research Note NE-118. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 4p.

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Abstract

In a study of sugar maple sap collection through a vacuum-pumped plastic tubing system, yields were compared between tapholes in which paraformaldehyde pellets were used and tapholes without pellets, Use of the pellets did not increase yield.

Citation

Smith, H. Clay; Gibbs, Carter B. 1970. Paraformaldehyde pellet not necessary in vacuum-pumped maple sap system. Research Note NE-118. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 4p.