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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Sarah Kehler Ewing wrote, "I'm hoping, in about 30 years :o), to start 
making my own manitoba maple syrup from our shelterbelt trees and can use 
all the advice I can get."

   If you planted Sugar Maple in Manitoba, you may have to provide 
additional water than what Mother Nature provides.  Sugar Maple seems to 
grow best in clay soil with an average annual rainfall of 30" or more.  Or 
are you referring to Box Elder, aka "Manitoba Maple?"

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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