See also: maple season sugar-making season sugar-time
- 1953  Such troughs of basswood, pine, cherry or butternut, some of them holding three to four gallons, were standard equipment for catching the sap of the maple tree during the hectic spring sugaring season.
- 1956  Among the Ojibwas, the annual sugaring time, when the maple sap was running in the spring, and the wild rice harvest in the autumn, were two occasions for large gatherings of the people.