HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1913 
231 
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changed from clear white and later on got 
a yellowish tinge, and again it was on 
Ray’s diagnosis that the season was de¬ 
cided to be ended. 
As he tasted it one morning he made a 
face and said, “Buddy sap.’’ It had a 
peculiar flavor and a peculiar odor. 
“It don’t do no good to keep on a day 
later than when you get buddy sap. Be¬ 
sides it spoils your trees,’’ was Ray’s ex¬ 
planation. “If you notice, on some of the 
.branches buds are beginning to grow full." 
So the buckets were brought in and to¬ 
gether with the spouts boiled and dried. 
The evaporator was cleaned out with 
vinegar and the little shack closed up to 
wait for another season. 
Some of the sirup was boiled in a great 
wash boiler over the kitchen stove as Ray 
had decided, and made into cakes and those 
with a shining row of sirup cans stowed 
away for the delectation of others 
throughout the year. 
I made another visit to the bush with 
Ray a few weeks later and this time we 
cleared out some birch and oak that 
seemed crowding on the maple. 
“The best sugar bush needs some care,” 
Ray opined, “but it is worth it. You see 
we make quite a bit on a stand like this 
with about five hundred trees. The work 
is fun and it comes when we've got nothin’ 
else to do. And we couldn't use this land 
for nothin’ else save pasturing and we’ve 
got enough of that. I only have to keep 
other sorts from crowdin’ in. You get 
more sap from a straight tree that ain’t 
crowded. Seems as though the trees that 
have the best spreadin’ crown give the 
most sap. But then again the ground 
ought to be shady and well covered with 
a litter of leaves so it don’t dry out in 
summer. That’s why I don’t let the cattle 
graze here. You see the maples don’t root 
deep and much of the nourishment comes 
near the surface. We’ve got it about right 
here ’cause on the south side of the slope 
we get an earlier start than most of the 
bushes and when we are through there we 
can work on the north side. That starts 
later. The trees are good first growth, 
too, and uncrowded. Why from some big 
trees here we may get as much as forty 
gallons, although on the average it’s less. 
You see that makes from about a pint to 
a gallon of sirup to a tree. Rather a tidy 
little item that just comes if you are a bit 
careful. But I don’t care what it nets, it’s 
an awful lot of fun. When a man's been 
locked up in a cow barn most all winter 
or settin’ round a stove, seems like this 
sugarin’ was a sort of ritual celebratin’ 
spring and meanin’ you was to be purified 
into a real man ’stead of a bunch o’ 
clothes.” 
And if a countryman can feel like that 
about it you may imagine the effect that 
the spring run has upon the man fresh 
from the city. The first coming of spring' 
is an experience well worth having; indeed 
one has not entirely lived until it has been 
enjoyed. The sap run in the sugar bush 
typifies the whole experience, if for that 
alone it is worth while. 
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