Seventy-year-old Wayne Pelton flits over a thin crust of hard packed snow carrying one gallon buckets full of fresh sap at his old fashioned sugar bush camp in Burritts Rapids, Ontario, Canada, 03 April 2014. Pelton's day starts with an early morning feed of his two blonde Belgian draft horses who have both worked his sugar bush for over 20 years. The farmer who has been making maple syrup every year his whole life flits over the thin crust of frozen snow carrying two one gallon pails of sap to his horse sleigh. The horses haul the 1,200 pounds (550Kg) of the collected sap through the snow to the sugar shack where his wife Janet keeps a wood fire going under the evaporator until all of the days sap is boiled down into pure maple syrup. The annual maple syrup season marks the end of the often brutal central Canadian winters and heralds the beginning of spring. The maple tree, whose leaf dominates the Canada's flag, plays both a symbolic and practical role in the identity of Canadians who produce around 95 percent of the world's supply of maple syrup. (Photo by Stephen Morrison/EPA)

The sun sets behind a maple line running with sap at the beginning of the season on Russell Popplewell's sugarbush in Jasper, Ontario, Canada, 31 March 2014. (Photo by Stephen Morrison/EPA)

Wayne Pelton and his team of Belgian draft horses unload newly collected sap as smoke and steam rises from a wood fired evaporator at their old fashioned sugar bush camp in Burritts Rapids, Ontario, Canada, 03 April 2014. (Photo by Stephen Morrison/EPA)

A drop of the season's first sap is falling from a tap at Temple's Sugar Camp in Fallbrook, Ontario, Canada, 02 April 2014. (Photo by Stephen Morrison/EPA)

A worker uses snowshoes to navigate the snow filled sugarbush while repairing a tap line at Temple's Sugar Camp in Fallbrook, Ontario, Canada, 02 April 2014. (Photo by Stephen Morrison/EPA)

Wayne Pelton and his team of Belgian draft horses head into the forest to collect sap at their old fashioned sugar bush camp in Burritts Rapids, Ontario, Canada, 03 April 2014. (Photo by Stephen Morrison/EPA)

Bill Gibbons monitors production at Gibbons Family Farm in Frankville, Ontario, Canada, 31 March 2014. (Photo by Stephen Morrison/EPA)

A “chip” is seen on the bottom of a ladle informing experienced boilers that the sap is forming into maple syrup at Popplewell hobby farm in Jasper, Ontario, Canada, 31 March 2014. (Photo by Stephen Morrison/EPA)

Janet Pelton monitors production of the evaporator at her traditional sugar bush camp in Burritts Rapids, Ontario, Canada, 03 April 2014. (Photo by Stephen Morrison/EPA)

A couple samples the Maple Syrup produced by Golden Moment Farm at their stall during the Perth Maple Festival in Perth, Ontario, Canada, 26 April 2014. (Photo by Stephen Morrison/EPA)

Visitors view a demonstration evaporator during the Perth Maple Festival in Perth, Ontario, Canada, 26 April 2014. (Photo by Stephen Morrison/EPA)

Sarah Gibbons grades a new batch of Maple Syrup at Gibbons Family Farm in Frankville, Ontario, Canada, 31 March 2014. (Photo by Stephen Morrison/EPA)