Originally Posted by
argohauler
Well we had RAIN today, while most others had nice weather. I decided I'd go to Weber's Maple Supply for the dark grade stickers and on the way get some seed potatoes near New Hamburg.
It was 17 and beautiful in Heidelberg. The Weber's were washing their 1100 sap buckets. They were very nice people and we talked a good half hour about the season and growing vegetables, but they had sold out of Dark labels. The shipment they got in were Amber instead of Dark. So I said I'd try Reist's Farm Supply east of Elmira. They told me they get their grade labels from them! The were going to pull the lids/spiles when I left. They had to get the team of horses they rented for the syrup season back to the farmer for seeding tomorrow. They had a neat cart they pulled with the horses. It had a set of wheels side by side like you see on a bale feeder wagon, then a bed for a tank to sit on and 2 wheels on each side on the bed part. The wheels had tracks on them. Mr. Weber said they were great in the snow and the mud!
Got to Reist's and they had lots on hand. nas said they were $4.50 at Weber's, well they were $4.00 at Reist's. Talked with the fellas's there and a guy south of Guelph and how great a season they had. The only complaints they heard were north of Elmira, where it wouldn't warm up enough.
Very enjoyable day, saw some Mennonites selling syrup by the road, but didn't stop. Saw ground being worked west of Mt. Pleasant in the blow sand and saw a Mennonite seeding spring grain with a 3 horse team, just north of St. Clementes.
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