Most of the syrup producers around here did seasonal maintence late this fall. (redrilling taps and pulling lines taught and cleaning collection lines and tanks. It ain't buckets and sleighs here anymore. Our family continuiously ran a sugar bush for 97 years, but since 2007 it has been idle. My dad will be 91 this spring and his brothers can no longer carry on harvesting a 40A sugar bush which is on dead level limestone base with 0-20" of topsoil. We ran about 3000 taps with buckets, I can remember curling up nights behind the evaporators on a little ledge while my dad and mom manned the evaporators, and canned syrup untill 4:00 in the morning and then having to venture out in the cold and endure a half mile ride from the sugar house, in the double bob sleigh pulled by a Case 310 crawler. back to home. Making syrup was hard work for us but I have nothing but fond memories of sugaring season. Ps. at the end of crop harvest season, came wood cutting season. We cut and split wood for 3 homes, our farm machinery business, and the evaporators in the sap house. My uncles and I still use wood as a major heat source for our homes.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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