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PADDY’S RUN PAPERS.
First Enterprise and Conscious
ness of Ownership.
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TAPPING THE TREES FOR SAP.
A Day of Hard Work and Meager Results
In the Maple Grove—Protection Against
Rain—Hired Man to the Rescue—Changes
Wrought by Time.
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[Copyright, 1895, by Murat Halstead.]
The summers were long in the long
ago, but they were not dull. There were
longings for other surroundings some
times, and yet I knew then the earth
was very beautiful; that Paddy’s Run
was a pretty place, from the first faint
green on the willows in the early spring
all the way until the locusts and the
hickories blossomed and the leaves in the
woods turned purple and gold. There
' never was anything lovelier, in color or
fragrance, than a fruit orchard in bloom.
Perhaps a clover field comes next, when
it is like a carpet of roses. But the tas
seling and silky corn always made me
feel existence a boon to be grateful for.
How those great cornfields along the
Miami scented the wind and fascinated
the eye, at once a vision of the land of
plenty and the breath of the balm of vio
lets ! Once I had a room, and was writ-
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POURED IT INTO THE KETTLES.
ing romance in it, overlooking the plains
of the banks of the Miami—richer than
’Egypt—and the splendor of the huge
cornfields in all the glory of September
as the sunlight or the moonlight glowed
upon them, haunts me still. I have seen
France and Italy, Germany and Eng
land, but there is no
Land, that is fairer than this.
The song that says there is tells a story
that is not true.
One of the familiar ways in which a
farmer’s son’s ambition is aroused is by
giving him a pig. A boy, and a girl,
too, has a strong instinct of personal
property. A child no less than a grown
person desires to enjoy the intense con
sciousness of ownership. There is some
thing captivating to youth and age in
proprietorship. The farmer, learned in
many things and a thinker—at least
he thinks so—has as good a right to
think so as a preacher, or a lawyer, or
a doctor, each with his specialties of
weakness, as the farmer has also. The
Tarmer thinks it wise to have his son
educated on a system and proposes to
make a man of him and give him “learn
ing, ” but to deliver it to him so that he
will not be ashamed to be a farmer him
self—and there a bit of mistake is made.
The son need not be ashamed of the old
farm if he prefers to go away some
where and know something else. He is
not ashamed of the old farm when he
leaves it. Ah, no! Far otherwise.
“Father, will you give me for mine
that pretty, fat, black pig with a white
spot on his throat?” The father is ami
able and says: “Yes, my son; he is
yours. Will you let him run with the
other pigs or have him put away by
himself and take care of him yourself?”
This arouses a sense of responsibility at
once, and there is meditation over a
momentous decision. The father comes
to the rescue, saying, “You would know
your pig among a thousand pigs, would
you not?” “Oh, yes.” “Well, then, he
might as well stay where he is, for you
can pick him out and take him away
when you want him to kill or sell.”
The proprietor of the pig flinches a lit
tle at this, but takes the advice and sees
his property fattened. Everything is sat
isfactorily settled, but the property is
not divided very much, and the pigs go
on just as usual. Now, that boy’s black
pig will go from the slop trough to the
pork barrel along with the other pigs,
and the boy will be gradually educated
to part with his property rights in the
interest of the family, owing to the dif
ficulty of subdividing things, and if ho
is hard to wean from the pig he is asked
to accept a likely pup, and there is a
swap of a pig and a pup. When the pig
is to be pork, the prospect of a dog be
comes prominent. It is wonderful how
soon a pup becomes a dog. Ho beats a
pig in development. If a pup is not sat
isfactory, a calf, or a sheep, or a horse
will be found to answer the purpose.
A prudent father will take care that
a son is not wronged in his feelings.
“You can never just tell, ” is a fragment
of farmers’ wisdom, “what a boy is go
ing to be, and it is best to make friends'
with him, for a boy remembers every
thing, particularly if hois put upon. ” I
was not a wronged child, rather a pet
ted one, but had a pig, and a calf, and
a dog, and a horse—a whole procession,
almost a menagerie, of my own—but I
got something out of each of the ani
mals. I have a recollection of a touch
of sorrow about the pig of my soul.
When I was told that pigs grew so much
sibwer than a boy, that he would bo
dead and gone before I was a man, why,
it stood to reason I had no use for a great
big old hog nosing around! When I got
rid of the old horse that fell to me final
ly, I was glad to see him go, and when
tfee calf got to be a bull I shall «»»
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an hsks ne was a core and disregarded
my pathetic proprietorship altogether,
so that I broke his leg with a stone en
deavoring to win his affections.
I concluded to undertake an enterprise
of my own. It was no less than making
sugar. There were about 30 beautiful
sugar trees on a hillside, say 400 yards
from my home, on the farther side of a
stri’» of forest trees. I knew about "sug
ar camps, ’ ’ and that they were great
fun. The fires blazed in them at night.
The sugar water was de’icious; the ma
ple sirup was glorious. There was a
point at which, in the process of boil
ing down the sweet water, it became
perfect nectar, and that was before it
gave signs of becoming thick, when it
was jnst liquid amber. It would never
do to drink molasses, you know. That
would be too much for even the assimi
lation of a boy raised on milk and corn
bread, a sort of food that preserves, as
the books on physiology they have in
the country say, “the natural coat of the
stomach and builds up the bones.”
There was associated with a sugar
camp the idea of a frolic. First, it was
camping out in the woods; second, one
would have to be up at night, and sugar
was sweetness, and friends might drop
in and help work for sugar water privi
leges. I was a learned boy in this sugar
business. Years and years and years, as
much as that vast span in a boy’s life
of three years, I had been noticing, and
that is the way a boy gets his informa
tion. I knew that sugar water was the
sap of the sugar maple tree, which flows
most freely and sweetly “just as the
frost is coming out of the ground;” that
the ideal weather for the sugar making is
when there is a white frost in the morn
ing and a thaw after sunrise. March
usually offers the best conditions in
southern Ohio, though there has been
sugar made late in February and in
April and even, in backward seasons,
for a few days in May. I knew one must
have an augur boring a hole about three
quarters of an inch in diameter to tap
the trees and should have sugar troughs
or crocks or pans for the water to run
in from the trees. The sugar trough was
the thing, but it was hard to hollow out.
My preference was crocks or milk pans.
I had not so many taps. I did not need
hundred of crocks! I must have spiles
—elders—of the right diameter, with
the pith out and cut so as to fit the tap
in the tree, to be driven in so tight
there could be no leakage of the water
with the sugar in it. There was some
thing more important. It was a furnace,
a shelter and a row of kettles. The reg
ular furnace had four, sometimes six,
kettles, fixed in a double row, and one
black pot on a crane for “sugaring off,”
which was the last and best of it. As
for shelter, that must be considered, for
it might rain, and it was unpleasant to
be wet and cold out of doors in the night.
I finally secured the approbation of
my superior officers to make sugar. I
think there was intercession, but of that
I did not know the particulars, and I
set to work, I may say, to toil. I had
first to know the size of the kettles, and
selected two. Sugar making time was
right at hand. I had the sugar and the
crocks and the spiles. The next thing
was to dig a ditch in sloping groum
and drive forks, which had to be cut,
into the ground, to support a fresh hick
ory pole to swing the kettles when they
had to be lifted, and other forks for the
other pole to lean boards against so as
to turn the rain. The work was slow. I
had to have help to move the kettles. 1
needed flat stones to cover the furnace,
save where the boilers stood on the fire.
Sugar making time' arrived suddenly. I
tapped a tree, and the water ran freely.
If you did not mind ruining a tree, all
you had to do was to chop a deep notch
in it, sloping downward, and suck the
water out with a straw. One had to
drink that one’s self. The last thing
was to construct a wood pile and place
the kettles. Help came when it appear
ed I had the work nearly ail done. One
day when there were both sunshine and
frost, but rather more sunshine than
frost, I had 20 trees tapped and three
kettles, two sitting and one hanging,
and then had two of them filled with
water and the fire started. I emptied the
crocks into a tin bucket and carried it
and poured the output of the maples in
to the kettles. And when the water be
gan to boil, that was business. I had
not much time to sit down. The fire
had to be kept going, and there was dan
ger the crocks would run over, for the
u’g, sweet drops fell fast, and constant
1 droppipg soon. filled a crook. I did not
THEOBOME TRIBUNE. TUESDAY* JUNE 11. 1895.
know until then that the water ran so
swiftly. The worst of it was the wind
would blow and blew the smoke and
ashes in the wrong places. But when the
color of sirup appeared, of a fine pale
but dusky gold there was success in the
air and in the water, and the labors be
came still more complicated. The fresh
water was poured into the first kettle in
the row, and as it was boiled down was
transferred, and the third, or swinging
boiler, was for the molasses with the
“grain” in it, and granulated sirup was
not far off.
Before night came on I was soaked in
sirup and very tired, and spending the
night in the woods did not seem to be
as charming in reality as it was in con
templation. I could not have worked all
night, with that sugar boiling, even if it
had been, in the grimmest way, neces
sary to do so. I was rescued by the hired
man, who was instructed, at headquar
ters soon after dark to persuade me to
the house. His task was not very diffi
cult, and my sleep was profound. The
next morning it took some time to
realize my big day’s work, and Oliver,
the man under instructions, had turned
out some molasses and sugar in a waxy
state, and I took charge of everything
with renewed zeal, but the weather grew
bad and the ground muddy, and the rain
fell in the crooks. Though there did not
seem to be any money in it, the molasses
was good enough for me. We strained
the sirup to get the ashes and bits of
charcoal out of it, and, gathering the
spoil, I abandoned the enterprise, and
the scene of my labors was known as my
sugar camp until the beautiful trees were
all gone and the hillside a cornfield,
and then it was forgotten along with
the rest. Murat Halstead.
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