A friend just returned from a family trip to northern Michigan, where he visited a maple tree farm where they made maple syrup. On the maple trees, they make just one relatively small cut all the way through the bark (or two cuts on larger trees) and hang a bucket beneath to catch the sap. Why, he asks you, don’t they just make a cut completely around the tree and collect much more sap much faster?

A friend just returned from a family trip to northern Michigan, where he visited a maple tree farm where they made maple syrup. On the maple trees, they make just one relatively small cut all the way through the bark (or two cuts on larger trees) and hang a bucket beneath to catch the sap. Why, he asks you, don’t they just make a cut completely around the tree and collect much more sap much faster?

BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)

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