Show r u 1 L Two I QI R n n 0 the ca cameo at of P rl s sun 2 1 ry a a PIa I trickle PI 1 I P CJ A 6 3 The near ne old r K Kea ol f V login ugar Bolli g g II 4 s s st t an ro rop open p en enla tha la III WATSON F tera robe will been be t SCOTT By ELMO bo those charming t the e snow pOUt W remember to o 0 sketches yOU of old time farm life lite which r rt 4 i I Ie 4 Tho gar mak 0 tn in l D Charles Dudley Warner published sugar camp a Firsa hook book under the title of Being a 5 First Firs t h he Boy One of them you yoo will recall 4 then en he II H emE was In As It about andOne he I remember said The Sugar the intimate New Camp England with and s rases t t is isy y t a bucket on oneo ry I if er eo oat I is Ie l rase raset Y a aone very boy and I 1 om am Mj j 4 4 In the spring M one lIe he used to be on the qui vine I thin think he t for the to begin beIm running sap ered it as soon as au body Perhaps he knew L starting In his own owns r It by n a feeling of something t stir In hIs legs and arms veins veins-a sort or of spring which tempted hIm to stand on his held head or r s r could find n a spot ol of throw a handspring If he s The ground from which the snow had melted sap stirs early In the legs of a country boy and 1 n I s j js s ta she shows S itself in uneasIness In the toes which I t f ii 1 r J Jr r c 4 r 1 is 1 hs f f D a aw w 4 s L 5 9 b 9 f C ry b H HI a 4 z Il 3 w frd y yC C a 1 t iA 1 yg r Ion t s st sIon I hi ar ara a arks r 4 i Y fM rf t s sj j na naI 9 kRo t wp y f 1 ti z I r u e S fix J Q Qu u f y yI yc w I c 31 vest f ff z tf r tat L k I A A k tr y ty Cb i it t 9 a yz Ani r ni nik M r sir rat at 11 of I fr frIt It x a 0 sou d 1 get tired of boots and want ant to come out and touch the soil Just as soon as the tho sun has warmed armed it a lIttle The country boy goes bare bare- barefoot foot just as naturally as the trees burst theIr buds which were ere packed and over In Inthe inthe the fall to keep the water and the frost out Perhaps the boy bov has been out dIgging Into the maple trees with Ith his jac knife at any rate he Is pretty sure to announce the discovery as ashe ashe he comes running Into the house in a great state of excitement ls if he has heard a hen cackle in the with barn I Sap s les saps in In the New England states In New Ne York OhIO Indiana Illinois In fact where er herd maples are nath nathe e to the soil soll On hundreds of farms In those states blue smoke curlIng up Into the air abo above aboe e the trees In a sugar bush tells the passerby that the sugar camp is In operation and that here Is being produced those two Vo finest of all native sweets maple and maple sugar And If that passerby has e eser er known n the jO joss jOs s of maple sugar time the sight of that smoke and the smells which drift to toward him from the sugar camp w ill make memories tug at his heartstrings and it will be for him to pass on by For as Charles Challes Dudley Warner sa says s In In my day maple sugar making used to be something between picnickIng and being shipwrecked on n a fertile island war re one should sane Sl from the wreck tubs and augers and great kettles and pork and hens hen's eggs and rye and Indian bread and begin at once to l lad md the S sweetest life In Inthe inthe the world I am told that It Is something dif dif- different different ferent no now and that there Is moro mono desire to Sl sue e the sap and male make good pure sugar and sell It for a large prIce than there used to be and that the old fun and of the busIness are pretty much gone I am told I that It IS the custom to carefully collect the sap and brIng It to the house where there are buIlt brick arches otter 0 er which It Is e In shallow v pans pains are taken to keep I the lea leases es and sticks and ashes and coals out of It and that the sugar Is clarified and that In short It Is a money making business in which there Is sery ery little fun and that the tho boy Is not allowed to dip clip hIs paddle Into the kettle of boiling sugar and lick oft the delicious The itIs prohibition may e the sugar but it Is cruel to the boy bOJ Those words were ere written more thin half a century ago BelD Being a Boy w as first printed In 1877 and and of Boston got out l a second edition 20 years J later illustrated with Ith photographs by Clifton John John- Johnson son 10 liken t from the I real eal life and heart of New Ne England which aId In pre preserving the charm of those tI my good good old oIl day s If Charles Chlrles Dudley arner were ere aline e today he would find that In some places where maple sugar is made the fun un and s are gone esen e en more enmore than the they were ere hen lie ho wrote rote nor or In stance stanle instance In n the state with Ith s hick more than any other e q thoughts of m maple sugar thel tiete's es e's a man Ino known Inon n as the champion sugar sUar maker maler of Vermont Yermont who ho has devised an intricate SJ system stem of Iron pipes leading from everyone every one of the trees In his Ius maple glo giose to tinge huge In the sugar house thIs network of pipes than 23 more feet In hi length sends n a steady stream of sup sap Into the where e It ls is con Into maple and maple sugar nut But despite this example c of ef applied to business a rIch In there still are ure sugar In many places place where the sap drips through pIles mule of sumach or alder Into wooden sap bucl ets just lil e the ones made famous bs b resident President COolidge during his administration where here It Is collected Into wooden tubs great or barrels on sleds dl 1 n by a yoke yole of o oxen en or a tam t m of plodding hOI horses where here It I is boiled do down n In great Iron ces- ces or kettles where here they still Ull hang n a pIece cop copper lIe of salt pork porI by bJ a string from the pOle fat over the tie tle Lettie so that It Is s about 1 two 10 0 Inches from Let Let- the edge to keep the sip from boiling top 0 oser er h where re they will let J you ou dip some of the and out of the kettle and pour It bUbbling on the where here it forms almost snow Immediately that of all delicacy sugar wax ax No of the fun Cuu and not all has been out of maple sugar suar time by moll modern ern methods taken new notions of In and Like 1110 f so 0 many other Items In our production national dIet A A t Ao o t F Ft I 1 t l W N o S y ho ay i fl y t a ai af f r 4 r w Y ro rop t p I H e r s y I I t J h 9 x C I t BoY JN Wh x iLa iLas iLaC 4 Y u S 4 iLaa a s C Ca a s y a ak k Y GC C P G 3 a i 4 3 s t r 4 we owe te the addition ur of maple and maple Sugar to the Indians There is an Interesting legend about the way the red man dIsco ered maple sugar AccordIng to the story n a certain a mighty hunter was lS out one day In search of game ame and his diligent squa squaw v whose hose name was as was busy embroidering a pair of moccasIns to surprise him when hen he carne cune back home But she knew as all wises h es know ean that In addition to a surprIse she had to hose ht e an C euIng meal mell a awaiting her lord So she hastily cut off a piece of moose melt meat and set It to bon boll In the water which ran from the the maple tree at the door of her tepee since tree was nearer than the sprIng Then she bent so over her that she forgot all about the tho moose meat and the sweet s water lter bOiled away Into a thick brown n soup up and formed a crusted s sweetness around the meat When returned he graciously accepted the moccasins with Ith their bead beld embroidered bears but he e claimed with delIght when hen his teeth sank Into the morsel that he had eser er tasted r he des de the melt meat and called for the kettle so that he could lick lIcIt It clean Then he went out In his new saying moccasins Ing nes ne neer er l a word about them and told all his e how the heaven cent Instructor hud had taught hIs how to mlle alike a delicious food by boiling the JUIce of maple Soon this 1110 knowledge ledge spread to all the trIbes and every spring sass Sl them J g 1 the sugar maples With their hatchets g the In sap containers made from flom birc It was as then boiled in earthen pots and later after the coming of the white hIte man In iron kettles which they obtained from traders Into whIch betted stones were ele dropped to facilitate the boiling rile fhe early settlers were me quick to elate clate thIs toothsome manya native Ind In many a pioneer home maple sugar was the only sw S Scot cot cot- ening Indians ever used But the they ed upon the method or of making mainly It-mainly in the matter of and became and maple sugar time be be- came one of the traditions of life American farm nor or n a description pf that delIghtful perIod tn in the fm faun m year refer one can do no better thin to to Charles it DUdley Warner again and see as he saw it through the e es of Young 7 n 7 3 M Mr r 0 NY In J p eke N ke v tt VA X ate Ie Alter teiL tt t fling ning to the house ron fon meat ment or of Sap s And then Ind tW gIn The sap buckets ter Iter terIn In the garret over om the boy has oc with Ith another boy lor fI e of the mahln down and set out oct O os s and scalded The aril in the woods and a road to the s gins The boy Is SI Ing everything e a til ofa n a de desire lre to help tte In In the first place the tree trees drive In tI fi buckets under Tte b bei 11 el ei 1 with mth tb the tin that sometime beg r f that the sap would does when ben a cider hr F does It only dNA rs stream but on the learns that the S S patiently waited fp It Ili other othen Ise than d drop t l to te Then the camp U s bt The shanty Is tl of It t two i gether and a fire h 13 t ii tl sUcks sticks are set at ed laId on them and apt caldron kettles Th t Lt t c right side up and gathered ith that Is sap theu U u the good sap run b bc way The great tire fire ti tl day out night or s Is Somebody t tl d somebody Is busy m I l 1 the sop sap somebodY do t tIt g ties that they bOY tort not the It Is i to hunk general things In lIe likes to b the hot SIP lP be h ilet e N ct ashes and he wool nIght If he acre y yf for the b 1 off so S firing sug 11 In the e nod c ca the lS is In frolIc a eft e 1 is sited I sometIme who tilled filled u did P e merry ja s find and firs fir's u u t- t tto sug sugu At these much s1 su sync to eat as ID n ed are who ho a s Is a IS a ISs though yon that and sIck andr as to b be D ort r Ht will want it the of the Sugaring Dl n t 1 sugar upon the si b In I no not out en t I 0 e the tb Is ed suppose d II hI e oxen eer er inset rn it It If one he nd of It a Th it dissolves es Dt Is s er used used 10 t hl bOY hI The dry dg toe tb e pr r to gise e It and clOS sc avidity thIng os do on an o to see f ee the e sy M be beu u fJ heD dogs dOT s face At sh t 11 e hh hIs r despair he boo rl n sua 11 nd the r In into to J b thIng except nh h halve ve been beeD It pi i nut But howled lio led 1 not do bY tJ or j |