The process of producing maple syrup from maple trees is actually quite easy. The first thing that we will have to do at the start of production is find a sugar maple tree to tap. When a maple tree is found a hole will be drilled into the tree and then a spile will be put into the hole. A spile is a spout that allows the sap to flow out of the tree and into some sort of container that will hold the sap. A single tap in one of the sugar maple trees will produce about 10 gallons of sap, which will boil down to about 1 quart of maple syrup (Saupe 2009). When enough sap is collected between the two classes Mr. Schrock will then take the sap and boil the water out of the sap until the desired sugar concentration is culminated.
Sap flow plays
Sap flow plays