1767  (1901)  Sugar-making continued till the twelfth of May.
1853  The chopping now begins, and may be followed without any interruption until the season for sugar-making commences.
1923  There is a quaint old Indian legend, according to which the Redman is held responsible for the manifold labors attendant upon the sugar-making industry.
1963  Indian sugar-making was an ancient and very primitive process, and the resulting sugar poor and dirty.