Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-24


10 or lO1 pounds will make about eight
pounds Of grained sugar or six pounds Of
cakes. By putting up sugar in different
styles we please more customers and make
larger sales. But here comes the sharp,
shrewd Yankee, and wants 10 know II all this
will payf Allow me TO answer him in true
Yaukes style by asking some questions.
Does IL pay TO keep fine horses and costly
carriages, just for the looks7 What do you
pay each year for the head toggery for your
wife aud daughters7 You buy costly pic
lures and hang them in your parlors for the
refining influence they will have upon your
family, but your boys see them hardly once
year.
You have a son; you wish him 10 be a
farmer and remain on the old homestead,
but you are crowding him down to gold
basis, effectually crushing out Of him all
ambition to excel in this your chosen pur-
suit. Boys have a laudable pride and am.
bition TO excel it has been 80 ever since
the days of Locke Amsden. Encourage
them to make some brag sugar" and see
the enthusiasm it will kindls in them; it
may have refining influence equal TO pic
lures. But to answer more direct, good
outfit for sugaring pays twice, once in the in
creased value of the product, and again in
the pleasure derived from it.
Marketing.
This is quite as much trade as making
sugar it really requires some tact and skill
to sell farm products. Manufacturers study
the wants of their customers, try 10 suit
their tastes, and put up their goods in the
most attractive style, put them upon the
market, and advertise them while some
sugar makers take old black sap tubs that
will not hold sap and gil them with COM
pound as black as tar and twice as bitter,
and then complain that there is no profit in
sugaring.
Sugar should be got into market as soon as
possible after being made, and send the best
to some manufacturing place like Manches-
ter or Lowell, but sell the poorer quality
near home Value your reputation more
than dollars; have your trade mark upon
every tub, and that will soon be guaranty
for the quality of your goods. The old say
ing that honesty is the best policy" is
verified in marketing farm products.
Care of Sugar Tools.
Simply washing boiling pans is not sufh-
cient; every atom Of inter should be re-
moved by scraping or some other way. Sap
holders should be washed at each run Of
sap; spouts and nails should be gathered
Immediately at the close Of sugaring and the
spouts washed and dried; painted tubs when
gathered should have q quart or more ol
cold water put in them aud be allowed to
soak awhile, then washed in warm water
rinsed IN cold water and put up. Good tub.
need not be wet before sugaring, but should
be brushed with common bench brush be.
fore setting.
Niter, so called, is more plenty some years
than others, and varies in different sugar
places as y rule we 6nd the most in old
sugar places and in seasons when we have q
large yield Of sugar. 1t varies in quality
also sometimes it is a dark, fine sediment
again it is coarser and light colored, like
sand. am inclined to think there are two
varieties Of this substance, and l am con.
6rmed in this view by the report of analyses
one calling it tartrate of lime, the other ma
late oi lime. Niter is held in solution unit
the sirup is quite thick, therefore we ma,
settle and strain thin Sirup and still hav,
the inter in our sugar.
An open winter with plenty OF thaws in
dicateS good sap year. Alternate thawinI
and freezing in sugaring indicates larg
run Of sap. To clarity sugar drain it frou
the bottom and spread damp cloth on tn
top, changing it once a day.
Vermont stands first in the production o
| IL. No. Vonl, IL
The next twenty-five states combined exceed
Vermont by less than half million pounds
South Carolina is credited with two, Nebras
ka ten and Oregon eleven pounds. If W,
can increase the quantity of sugar made il
Vermont twenty-five per cent annually
and improve the quality two cents per pound
it will add nearly half million dollars t,
our income. 1t seems that we have an in
dustry peculiar to Vermont, with our who'll
country for market .-
Our Green Mountain boys are settled il
every state of the union, and as spring tim'
comes and their thoughts turn toward the ole
homestead, bright pictures Of the sugar CAM
with the boiling sap come to mind in i'm
agination they see the ladle on the Goals
then the waxy sugar on the snow, then
scufie to see who shall get the lions share
Farmers of Vermont, let us put more brail
work into our sugaring, increase the quaint
iy, improve the quality of our sugar, preserv
the naples, protect the young trees, trans
plant them by the roadside, fill up vacan
places, and while We bsautify our homes w
shall be laying the foundation for the hap
piness and prosperity Of our children.