Collected 300 gallons today.  High 20’s overnight: 29 or 30.  Sunny and 50 for the high.  The trees gave more sap.  But some taps are dry.  And the sugar content is going down:  2.6 today.  Forecast for this week looks like we loose our freezing nights.  That will finish us.  The woods is now mostly clear of snow expect for the piles we made when opening the trails.

 

Cooked through about 275 gallons today.  Into the woods by 7:30 AM .  Back to the house by 10:30 PM.  15 hours.  Took a long time to clean the pan this morning again because of the nitre build up.  And we struggled with nitre all day while boiling. Almost had a boil over because of the nitre.   After 1 ½ hours of boiling the nite build appeared already.  This nitre build up is a new development we have not seen in past seasons.

 

Much smaller crew for collecting today.  We also bottled another 31 quarts.    First day this season we boiled, bottled and collected.