Maple Research Collection
Collection Overview
This collection documents the history of maple research at the University of Vermont. Included in the collection is a selection of photographs from the archives of the Proctor Maple Research Center (PMRC), a field station of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Vermont (UVM), and the first permanent maple research facility in the United States. The photographs, taken between 1948-1957, document the construction of the field station’s first sugarhouse, as well as the PMRC sugar bush and early maple experiments. Also included in the collection are the published University of Vermont Agricultural Extension bulletins on maple research (1890-1988), taken from both the Proctor Maple Research Center archive and the University of Vermont Libraries Department of Special Collections.
Maple research in Vermont has a long history, dating back to the early 1890s, when C. H. (Charles Howard) Jones, head of the UVM Agricultural Experiment Station and a prominent early maple sugar chemist, conducted seminal research on the biology of maple trees to better understand the sap flow mechanism and its dependence on meteorological changes, as well as the considerable variance in sap sugar content.
In 1946, James Marvin and Fred Taylor founded the Proctor Maple Research Center with a donation by Governor Mortimer Proctor of the former “Harvey Farm” in Underhill Center, Vermont, to UVM. For the first year of operation, research on sap flow, maple tree physiology, and the economics of maple production were conducted in an 8’ x 12’ shed. In 1948, the first sugarhouse was constructed to allow research on syrup production techniques, followed several years later by the C.H. Jones Laboratory (which served as the primary research laboratory until it burned down in 1998).
Through the years, the PMRC has had its fair share of prominent maple researchers, scientists and educators, including Frederick Laing, whose research helped develop and improve methods of installing plastic tubing and directed improvements in using vacuum pumps to increase sap yields, and Mariafranca Morselli, who brought a greater understanding to the role of microorganisms in determining syrup grade, as well as developing methods to detect adulteration of maple syrup by adding other sugars.
In 1999, the PMRC was named to the National Register of Historic Places, and today houses facilities that include an 8,000 square foot laboratory and a demonstration and research sugarhouse, as well as the original research shed.
Time Period Covered: 1890 - 1988
Published: February 10, 2010, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
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Creator(s)
- Proctor Maple Research Center [151]
- Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station [43]
- Laing, Frederick M. [11]
- Morselli, M. F. (Mariafranca F.) [8]
- Marvin, James W. (James Wallace), 1909- [7]
- Spaven, Jack [5]
- Hills, Joseph Lawrence, 1861-1954 [4]
- Hitchcock, John Allen, 1894- [4]
- Arnold, Earl L. (Earl Lee), 1907- [3]
- Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916 [3]
- Jones, Charles Howland, 1870- [3]
- Lighthall, M. T. G. (Mary T. Greene) [3]
- Whalen, M. L. [3]
- Post, Boyd W. [2]
- Sendak, Paul E. [2]
- Webster, Fred C., 1923- [2]
- Barbieri, Christopher G. (Christopher George), 1941- [1]
- Bradlee, Jennie L. [1]
- Carl, Clayton M. [1]
- Chamberlain, W. J. [1]
- Clarke, Robert P. [1]
- Curtis, Robert O. (Robert Orin), 1927- [1]
- Donnelly, John R. [1]
- Duchacek, Howard [1]
- Duchacek, Howard. [1]
- Edson, A. W. (Arthur Woodbury), 1877- [1]
- Edson, H. A. (Howard Austin), 1875- [1]
- England, George M. [1]
- Franz, Malcolm [1]
- Garrett, Lawrence D. [1]
- Greene, Mary T. [1]
- Howard, Diantha [1]
- Jenkins, W. L. [1]
- Jones, Charles Howland, 1870- [1]
- Lane, Susan [1]
- McKay, A. W. (Andrew William), 1883- [1]
- Merrow, Susan B. (Susan Brewster), 1917- [1]
- Morse, W. J. (Warner Jackson), 1872-1931 [1]
- Moulton, Bill [1]
- Parker, Bruce L. [1]
- Pelsue, Neil H. [1]
- Scherbatskoy, Tim [1]
- Smith, Richard W. (Richard Watson), 1898-1935 [1]
- Sproston, Thomas. [1]
- Taylor, Fred H. (Fred Herbert) [1]
- Teillon, H. B. [1]
- Tompkins, Enoch H. (Enoch Harold), 1917- [1]
- University of Vermont [1]
- Wells, Grant D. [1]
Place(s)
- Underhill (Vt.) [156]
- Maple sugar industryVermont [6]
- Maple sugar industryVermontEquipment and supplies [2]
- Maple sugarEconomic aspectsVermont [2]
- Maple syrupEconomic aspectsVermont [2]
- DendrochronologyVermont [1]
- GrazingVermont [1]
- HardwoodsVermontGrowth [1]
- Maple syrupVermontBibliography [1]
- MapleVermont [1]
Format(s)
- black-and-white photographs [157]
- text [50]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [157]
- technical reports [39]
- bulletins [21]
- bibliography [1]
- manuals (instructional materials) [1]
Topic(s)
- Agriculture Research [207]
- Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station [159]
- Proctor Maple Research Center [158]
- Maple [67]
- Sugar maple [63]
- Sap [8]
- Maple sugar industry Equipment and supplies [6]
- Sap Pipe lines [6]
- Maple syrup industry [5]
- Pumping machinery [5]
- Surveying [5]
- Maple products [4]
- Maple syrup Marketing [3]
- Tractors [3]
- Maple Diseases and pests [2]
- Sugar maple Diseases and pests [2]
- Carbohydrates [1]
- Cooking (Maple sugar and syrup) [1]
- Cream [1]
- Fertilizers and manures [1]
- Food contamination [1]
- Fuelwood [1]
- Industrial buildings Design and construction [1]
- Lead poisoning [1]
- Maple Composition [1]
- Maple sugar Containers [1]
- Maple sugar Economic aspects [1]
- Maple sugar Marketing [1]
- Maple sugar industry [1]
- Maple syrup Containers [1]
- Maple syrup industry Equipment and supplies [1]
- Marvin, James W. (James Wallace)1909- [1]
- Sap Composition [1]
- Soil moisture [1]
- Taylor, Fred H. (Fred Herbert) [1]
- Tree-rings [1]
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Topic: ("Agriculture Research")
Title: Detection of adulteration in maple sugar and maple syrup
Creator: Jones, Charles Howland, 1870-
Date: 1903; 1904;
Resource type: technical reports
Title: E. Root and Dean Carrigan checking collection tank
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1948
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, 1948
Title: Economics of the farm manufacture of maple syrup and sugar
Creator: Hitchcock, John Allen, 1894-; Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station
Date: July 1928
Resource type: bulletins
Title: Economics of the farm manufacture of maple syrup and sugar
Creator: Hitchcock, John Allen, 1894-; Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station
Date: November 1928
Resource type: bulletins
Title: Ed Fielling collecting maple sap
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1952
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, 1952
Title: Ed Fielling surveying the sugar bush
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1952
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, 1952
Title: Effect of high-vacuum pumping on volume yields and composition of maple sap
Creator: Laing, Frederick M.; Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station
Date: March 1971
Resource type: technical reports
Title: Effect of moisture and fertilizers on sugar maple seedling growth
Creator: Carl, Clayton M.; Donnelly, John R.; Post, Boyd W.; Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station
Date: December 1973
Resource type: technical reports
Title: Effect of new techniques on maple sap yields
Creator: Laing, Frederick M.; Marvin, James W. (James Wallace), 1909-; Lighthall, M. T. G. (Mary T. Greene); Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station
Date: June 1962
Resource type: technical reports
Title: Experiment in sugar bush
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1948
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, 1948
Title: Experiment in the sugar bush
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1948
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, 1948
Title: Exterior of sugar house
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1949
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, 1949
Title: Farm sales of Vermont maple products 1960
Creator: Webster, Fred C., 1923-; Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station
Date: October 1960
Title: Four collection buckets
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1955
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1955
Title: Framing of sugar house
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1948
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Fall, 1948
Title: Fred Taylor on tractor in front of sugar house
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1949
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, 1949
Title: Gauge on tree
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1949
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, 1949
Title: Herb Beam and Jim Marvin on ladder at decapitated tree 537
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1949
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, 1949
Title: Herb Beam power tapping trees in the sugar bush
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Title: Herb Beam power tapping trees in the sugar bush
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Title: Herb Beam tapping a sugar maple
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1955
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, 1955
Title: Horses pulling sleigh of maple sap collection supplies
Creator: Proctor Maple Research Center
Date: 1957
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, 1957
Title: How to lessen the content of lead in maple product (progress report)
Creator: Hills, Joseph Lawrence, 1861-1954; Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station
Date: February 1938
Resource type: technical reports
Title: In-line ultraviolet light treatment of sugar maple sap
Creator: Whalen, M. L.; Morselli, M. F. (Mariafranca F.); Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station
Date: July, 1983
Resource type: technical reports
Creator: Whalen, M. L.; Morselli, M. F. (Mariafranca F.); Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station
Date: July, 1983
Resource type: technical reports
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