Your local extension office should have lots of handouts for making maple syrup. I would contact them and get those, plus the web is a great source of information. How many maple's do you have? Just remember, it takes apprx. 40 gallons of sap to boil down to 1 gallon of syrup. And it does seem like it takes forever to boil down. Filter, filter, filter... You can purchase some polar fleece for filtering, which works very well, but you need almost a yard of it. We cut out large squares and filter every chance we get. Hope this helps. If you have anymore questions feel free to email.
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