Son of Walter Gaylord putting on snowshoes before going to gather sap from sugar maple trees. The snow was so deep that snowshoes were necessary to get around on. Mad River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees, because of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms; in this particular farm unit there are eighty acres.It has been in family three generations. Has about thirty-five or forty head of cattle, raises poultry and potatoes. Sourced from the Library of Congress.