American Agriculturist, April 12, 1924 
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A Night In a Sugar Camp 
When We Were Boys, 
T HE sun went down By E. L. 
red. The air has 
a nip about it that leads father to say, 
“It will be a good sap day again to¬ 
morrow.” We have had a good one to¬ 
day, too. Last night it froze quite hard, 
just as it will to-night; and after the sun 
was up a little way, it began to thaw, and 
then the sap started once more. All day 
since then it has been dripping, dripping 
into the buckets, until we have had a hard 
time to keep up with it. The men have 
been busy since morning, gathering the 
great tanks full of the sweet liquid which 
will soon be changed into sugar and syrup. 
Because the prospect is so good for 
another busy day, and for the reason that 
our sugar and syrup will be finer if we 
keep it closely boiled in, we feel that we 
must spend a part of the night in the 
woods at the sugar house. It is one of 
nature’s mysteries that maple sap if it is 
permitted to stand very long after it 
comes from the tree, and especially if it 
be exposed to the light, will soon begin to 
change its color, so that the product we 
seek is not just as clear and beautiful as 
it is if we boil the sap promptly. There 
will be so much more to-morrow that if we 
do not boil for a time to-night it will be 
difficult for us to catch up with the work. 
* * * 
How still it is in the woods to-night as 
we take our way to the sugar orchard! 
The spring birds have all gone to their 
hiding place. Only an owl away down 
toward the creek now and then sounds his 
trumpet. With the assurance which 
comes from long experience, father ex¬ 
presses the opinion that we will soon have 
a storm. “The owl hoots that way before 
a storm,” he says and we recall that fact 
when a day or two later a cold rain sets in. 
On the way to the sugar house we stop 
to peek into the buckets at the big maples 
along the road, and notice that although 
the frost has checked the flow for to-night, 
leaving tiny icicles hanging from the 
spouts, still many of the pails are a good 
deal more than half full. “We will have 
to bring in what the old Big Tree has 
before we go home to-night,” somebody 
says, speaking of that great maple as 
one might of an old friend. Indeed many 
of these beautiful trees do seem to us 
young folks like personal friends. We 
have known them so long; and father 
can tell you where every tree in the woods 
is and whether it is a good sap tree or 
not, so long has he been acquainted with 
the woods. 
* * * 
Although we built up a big fire under 
the arch of the vaporator before we went 
home to supper, and were careful to leave 
quite a stream running in from the store 
tank just outside the side of the cabin, 
the wood has well nigh burned out now. 
Quickly we swing the front door open and 
place a bit of light wood on the still glow¬ 
ing coals, so that the blaze will soon be 
rising high against the bottom of the 
evaporator, piling larger sticks above the 
small ones. In a moment a roar sounds 
up the chimney and the sap begins to leap 
in the evaporator again, rising and falling 
like little billows which have been lashed 
by the storm on the ocean, and all the 
time making their way from the front 
compartment back toward the rear, and 
finally out into the last one of all at the 
far end of the machine. Soon father will 
be ready to draw some of the precious 
stuff off. That is always his work; we 
young people know how important it is 
that the syrup shall be of the desired 
thickness, and that father understands 
that better than any of the rest of us. 
It is a warm place here when the sap 
is boiling hard. Steam rises from the 
evaporator, filling the house to the very 
peak. Every time the front door is 
opened to put in wood a blast almost 
as hot as that from a furnace leaps out, 
bringing the perspiration to the cheeks 
and forehead of the fireman, whoever he 
may be, and we all like to be trusted with 
Helping Dad Boil Sap 
VINCENT that work, for a little 
while. But by and by 
it gets so warm in the house that we 
hurry out where the air is purer and cooler. 
How can father endure it to stay there 
hour after hour? Seems as if he would 
smother. 
* * * 
Still everywhere, yet. But hark! 
Away across the creek we hear a long, 
solemn blast, all on one key. We know 
what it is. “Joe is boiling, too, to-night. 
That is him blowing on his funnel.” 
Billy springs back into the sugar house. 
He knows just where our funnel is. 
Soon he is back with it. Lifting the spout 
to his lips he, too, sends answering note 
ringing far and near through the woods. 
A moment later and back comes Joe’s 
answering call. We all take turns at the 
funnel. That is quite the only use we 
have for the funnel in these days. The 
time was when every bit of the sap we 
gathered went through that old funnel 
into the big cask on the bobsled, which 
was then our only means of gathering sap 
from the trees, since we put the neck yoke 
aside. Now we have great gathering 
tanks of galvanized iron taking the 
place of the big casks and these are 
so made that no funnel is needed. So 
the funnel has been given a place of 
honor on a big nail at the side of the 
sugar house. 
The woods have scarcely ceased ringing 
back the echoes from/our funnel, when 
another sound breaks the silence. It is 
the old hoot owl again. Has our longer 
note started him up again? We listen and 
laugh when the sound dies awqy. “He 
can beat the rest of us,” Ned declares. 
“He’s a pretty good old fellow, anyhow.” 
And then Ned, who is a great nature 
study boy, tells us something about the 
kind of a friend the barn owl is to the 
farmer folks. Somebody who has studied 
this owl says one of them which he 
watched closely, with the help of his 
mate, caught and devoured 1,596 mice, 
134 rats, 54 shrews, which we know 
better by the name of moles, and 37 other 
animals that do great damage to the 
farmer folks. When that story comes to 
an end we then and there pass a resolu¬ 
tion never to do anything to hurt a single 
member of the owl family. 
* * * 
But now the sugar house door swings 
open and father calls, “Now we are 
ready to draw off the syrup, boys!” 
What a scampering that way, not so 
much to watch father as he does this im¬ 
portant work, as because there will be a 
taste for us all of what seems to us the 
finest sweet in all the world. Out into a 
forty-quart milk can the syrup runs, a 
lovely dark golden stream as we turn our 
flashlight upon it; and the can is now quite 
half full when father shuts the faucet off; 
and all from the very heart of the big, 
generous, kindly sugar nfaple trees. 
As we take our saucers down from the 
shelf and fill them with the delicious nec¬ 
tar, stirring it with our spoons to make it 
cool enough to eat, another vote is taken, 
and without a dissenting voice we resolve 
that while the Kind Father might have 
made a finer sweet than this, we surely do 
not believe lie ever did. 
The hours hurry on to midnight, and 
father begins to make ready for home. 
The stream from the store tank to the 
evaporator is increased in size, slowing 
down the boiling for a few moments and 
filling the, pan well up. Then the fire 
under the arch is replenished for the last 
time to-night, the syrup is drawn off 
again, the ashes about the front door of 
the furnace dampened with water, we 
lift the big can of syrup out of its place 
and are off for home, tired and sleepy and 
happy, but not too weary to stop at the 
friendly old Big Tree to see how much 
sap there is in the bucket now, and 
then to say good-night to the good old 
woods. 
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