Collecting maple syrup during the 19th Century. Local Indigenous peoples showed the arriving colonists how to tap the trunks of certain types of maples during the spring thaw to harvest the , rather than making incisions in the bark, the Europeans used the method of drilling tapholes in the trunks with augers then inserted wooden spouts into the holes and hung a wooden bucket from the protruding end of each spout to collect the sap. They operated at the start of the spring thaw in regions of woodland with large numbers of maples.
"Century Geographical Readers"
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