East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1962-04-05

spiles and the plastic tubes,
which keep the passages warm
enough so that the sap in them
does not freeze overnight.
This enables the sugarmen to
get the benefit of the early
morning "rise" of sap in the
tree, which is the largest of
the day.
Last summer, the children
report, was a good one for sap
this spring. A good" summer
is one in which the leaves on
the sugar maple trees are nu-
merous and bushy, thus enab-
ling the tree to store up plenty
of sugar for the sap run the
following spring. This results
in a much larger yield Of syrup
in proportion to sap.
Consider, for example, these
figures reported by sugarmen
at the Red Raider bush last
week. A year ago, it required
62 gallons of sap to produce one
gallon of syrup. This year it
requires only 33!
Sugaring-Off
Who wants to change the
subject from maple syrup, once
it has been mentioned? Not the
Kindergartners in Mrs. Sarah
Johnston's room at Caledonia
School, certainly; for they made
some and had a pancake break
fast with it themselves.
Here is the way it came
about. Mrs. Johnston and her
husband have two maple trees
on their farm in Chesterland
and some sap from them was
brought in to the school inI
metal containers. The children
started to boil it and boil it,
and after what seemed to be a
very long time, the moisture
had been driven off and pure
maple syrup was left.
Invite Others
They invited the other Kin
dergartners in the school,
taught by Mrs. Jean Hines, to
join them in doing justice to
this syrup. Small pancakes the
size of silver dollars were
made, and some apples were
converted into apple sauce, and
a very tasty time was had by
all.
Perhaps by coincidence, Mrs.
Hines children had learned to
recite a little story entitled
"The Pancake" with which
they entertained their hosts in
return for the pancake break
fast. There's nothing like being
five years old!
Trees in General
We can't seem to leave the
subject Of trees this week. We
turn now to many more trees,
millions of them, which cover
(or used to cover) large part
of the acreage of the United
States.
Trees have been the object of
intensive study by the fifth
grade pupils Of Mrs. Bernice
Wisecup at Chambers School
for some time. The elimination
of this project, in both the
science and the social studies
fields, was the preparation of
an elaborate display on the I
subject Of trees, which was not s
yet complete when we saw it
last week.
Much encyclopedia, source
book, and map work went into
the assembling Of material for
this project. The result almost
iustities the label "encyclope-
die" itself.
Labelled Drawings
First, there are two large |
abelled drawin gs, entitled
What Is a Tree? ?" and "Tree
Rings Tell a Story" The first
If these shows, by means of
sections, all the var
ous layers and parts Of tree.
The second explains how both
the age of a tree and its varied
-ate Of growth from year to
year can be told from it's rings.
Then there is huge chart
entitled "Better-Known Trees
If the U. 81: a map Of the
country, surrounded by small
drawings Of many American
,rees, with lines connecting
Zach species with the sections
If the United States to which
t is native. There is also an
of broad Loot ,,J