This wood sap spout was used by settlers in upper New York during the 19th century. After boring a hole into the maple tree, one would insert this spout to drain sap from the tree into a bucket. Sap ...

Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...

A recent account about the maple sugaring process mentioned in passing that plastic tubes for carrying sap from tree to sugar house have largely replaced the spouts and buckets. An alert reader in ...