The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-12
A Boom For Maple Sugar.
A Bounty IF IUo Cents per Pound Of
fered By The Federal Government.
BUT ONLY THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF MArLr

A bounty IF ICo Cents per Pound Of
fered by The Federal Government
BUT ONLY THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF MAPLE
SUGAR WILL GET THIS BONUs.-How TO Pro.
DUCE SUCH sUGAR.-THE LATEST IMPROVED
INTERPRETATIONS now TO GET READY, OR
you MAY LOSE THE EXTRA BOUNTY.
A tremendous impetus will be given to
the production of maple sugar by the bounty
OF II cents and two cents per pound which
is To be paid from the United States treas
ury for all maple sugar hereafter produced
in this country. This is one OF the features
OF the agricultural part of the new tariff
law. 1t has been doubted whether this
bounty would apply to next springs crop of
maple sugar.
The sugar bounty law, Sec. '2ll, reads
The provisions of this act providing terms
Tor the admission of imported sugars and
mOlasSeS, and Tor the payment Of q bOUntV
on sugars Of domestic prodUctioB shall take
effect on the first day OF April, 1891"
Therefore all maple sugar made next spring
in conformity with the law will get the
bounty. In order to get the bounty, the
producer must, before April l. get H.
cense from the commissioner Of internal
revenue, and must make not less than 800
| pounds.
If the sugar.malers' product is less than
hve hundred pounds, they should cooper
| ate and have their syrup carried to one cen
trail point and there made into sugar on the
same plan as the Cooley cooperative cream
| gathering butter factories now work, and
| thus save the bounty.
The law applies only to those who
expect to get the bounty. Farmers who
make less than five hundred pounds of
! maple sugar, or a greater amount and are
! too lazy to apply for license, can make all
! the sugar they wish to without being in any
way liable under this law. But if you want
| to get the bounty, you must comply with
| the above regulations. This is not seri.
/ Gus matter. IL involves only the simplest
| kind Of a record OF what apparatus you use
| and the amount and quality of your sugar.
! Full information with the necessary blanks
to ill out in order TO get license that will
! entitle you TO bounty, will he sent to you
| free OF cost if you write "A letter as foil wS:
| Commissioner n Internal H,reHae, UaSAiHgtoH,
u. 6. SIR Please to send all necessary papers
aud blanks for me to fin out ia order to make appli.
cation to you for license to manufacture maple
! sugar and get the bounty offered therefor Re.
| specttully yours. Sign with your name in full
/ your post office, county aud stated
This request should be made at once. To
make sure at you get the papers, fill them
| out, have them accepted, and receive the
official license long before A pri fir t. Re
| member also that thousands of applications
will be made, that many will rush in at the
| last moment, that official business is ALWAYS
slow, and that as licenses will be issued in
! order OF application it will be first come,
! first served. II you don't get your license
before sugaring begins, you can't get the
| bounty. Write the above request at once
and you will he all ready for the extra two
cents long before A ri 1st The extra two
cents will be paid on every pound of maple
| sugar made in the United States in conform
! ity to the law.
But maple sugar must be good to get either
the extra bounty or fetch profitable price
in market The best sugar will test "not
| less than ninety degrees by the polariscope,
| and will therefore be entitled to the full
| bounty Of two cents per pound. But a large
amount of the maple sugar, as commonly
| made, will test mot less than eighty de.
grees," and such will get only one and
three-fourths cents per pound bounty. In
fact, the bulk of maple sugar in market will
test eighty-four to eighty-siX degrees by the
polariScope, and thus get only TIE one and
| hree-fourthS cents bounty. Besides this, a
| large quantity of low grade sugar has here
| tOiore been sold that won't test even eighty
! degrees and such stuff won't get any
| bounty. Now, by the use of the latest inn
| proved methods and appliances, the lowest
grade sugar can be so improved as to test
| over eighty, and get the one and three
! fourth cents bouu v. But, more important
still, by the use Of the Williams evaporation
and good management, the great bulk Of the
crop can be brought uD to test ninety and
over, and thus be enill led TO the fun bonn Y
of two cents per pound. Not only can ma
pie sugar thus be made to get the bounty
but the cost of producing such sugar is b.,
| this system greatly reduced.