Centuries-old maple sugar industry relies on new technology to survive in Pioneer Valley

masslive.com (Mar 25 2012)

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   It isn’t easy to scrap the traditional methods for new ones, Aloisi said, remembering how his father was unsure about switching from metal buckets to plastic pipelines in 1988. “But with buckets, I could only get to half the taps in a day,” he said. “And there were many times that I’d be carrying buckets through two feet of snow and falling and spilling the sap all over myself.”

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