. Home-making and its philosophy . THE SWEET-SMELLING MAPLES ON THE ARCHIBALD FARM CHAPTER VIMAPLE SUGAR MAKING THIS was in March and to us the beginning of maple grove held from three hundred to fivehundred trees of tapping size and faced the north,on a descending slope looking to the house. My readersmust go back to ye olden time when wooden spouts afoot long were used, shaped like a crescent, and a steelgouge of the same shape was driven into the tree two ormore feet from the ground, and the wooden spout tappedfirmly into the opening to prevent leaking. An axe orauger made an inc
. Home-making and its philosophy . THE SWEET-SMELLING MAPLES ON THE ARCHIBALD FARM CHAPTER VIMAPLE SUGAR MAKING THIS was in March and to us the beginning of maple grove held from three hundred to fivehundred trees of tapping size and faced the north,on a descending slope looking to the house. My readersmust go back to ye olden time when wooden spouts afoot long were used, shaped like a crescent, and a steelgouge of the same shape was driven into the tree two ormore feet from the ground, and the wooden spout tappedfirmly into the opening to prevent leaking. An axe orauger made an incision above the spout and the whitechips fell on the snow while the sweetish sap followedalmost in a stream for freedom and to us. The troughswere two feet long and made of clear split fir, hewn outwith axes, or from birch bark peeled from the best whitebirch, without knot holes, because of its tougher bark was folded into basin shape and skewered bywooden pins, and held from four to five quarts of sap, aquantity equal t
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