The History of Maple Sugar 



As the first hunters, the first woodsmen, and 

 the first builders in the American wilderness 

 were Indians, so also were the first sugar makers. 

 The Indian went about his sugar making in ways 

 quite different from those we see and know to- 

 day. With the coming of the first thaws in 

 March, when the nights were still frosty and 

 cold, but the days were warm and the snow be- 

 ginning to melt slowly away from beneath the 

 trees, the red man began to make ready for 

 gathering the sap. 



Then, as now, there were several kinds of 

 maples in the forests the hard or sugar maple, 

 the red and silver maples, and one or two others 



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