Cold frosty nights and clear sunshiny days is what the Indians like for their sugar-making.

I was heartily sick of the sugar-making, long before the season was over; however, we were well paid for our trouble.

One day while I was working in the bush, preparing bark troughs for next year's sugar-making, many thoughts were in my breast.

Some citizens thought it acrid or even putrescent, and after a couple of seasons of sugar-making they left town, unable to stand the new odors.

Subjects included woodwork, agriculture, sugar-making (from sugar cane), and leather tanning, but academic subjects such as arithmetic and science were also taught.

Aboriginal tribes developed rituals around sugar-making, celebrating the Sugar Moon (the first full moon of spring) with a Maple Dance.

It was rumored that the Brazilian Alcohol and Sugar Institute was preparing to announce a diversion of substantially more sugar cane from sugar-making to alcohol production.

The basement beneath the sugar mill had been fitted up comfortably enough, with beds and chamber pots, and aside from the noise of the sugar-making above during the days, it was comfortable enough.

It was April, and the snow was gone from the exposed parts of the hill, but beyond, in the valley where sugar-making was going on, it was still a couple of feet deep.

We have cane-syrup, and also molasses and refiner's syrup, by-products of sugar-making, and in some parts of the country, local products such as honey, maple sugar and syrup, and sorghum syrup.