The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-04-10
PERU.

pore IL all SO patlenJly, not murmuf
or complaint escaping her lips. She
trusted wholly in the blessed Savior,
who gives us strength to bear all of
our sufferings. Much sympathy is
extended to the bereaved husband and
family.
We would like to say to our East
Dorset friends that Mrs. S. A. Saw
yer has fifty-tive bill Of old CONT
mental money, date 1873.
Eugene Lyon has gone back to
SALISBURY to teach the spring term
of school.
Albert Lyon and Geo. Whitney
have gone back to Burr & Burton
Seminary to attend the spring term
of school. ~
The open winter has been severe
blow to the heavy lumber industries
of the town.
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plete and well illustrated.
M. J. Hapgood has returned from
his trip to Pennsylvania and the
South, and is now gathering sap upon
the Crossman place. He reports live
ly times in Alabama. He found rab-
bits and brook trout even there. His
family will remain abroad for the
present.
OUR MAPLE SUGAR.
There never was time when the
manufacture of maple sugar was so
profitable to the farmer as at present.
A pound of nice maple sugar will buy
more now of the ordinary necessaries
of life than ever before. Look at tue
quotations of the Brattleboro Maple
Sugar Exchange and the account of
their sales the last year and the quo
ted prices of other articles by their
side. Why, we that are young can
easily remember how that maple sugar
always used to be used for ordinary
cooking, because it was cheaper, not
withstanding that it takes three
pounds of it to sweeten as much as
two pounds of West India. Seldom
could hundred pounds of sugar be
exchanged for a barrel of flour; and
it used to take two pounds for yard
of calico or cotton cloth. Now the
condition is nearly reversed. The
average price for pound of nice
cake-sugar the past year has been,
and the coming year will be, nearly
double that of common West India
and of print and cotton cloth, while
you will buy with hundred pounds,
nearl y two barrels of flour, a great
deal better than you used to get, and
nearly half ton of corn meal.
Now in the face of all this, give me
the reason for double the number of
sugar lots lying idle than there was
five years ago. If you can't | can.
1t is because one-half of the so-called
farmers are too lazy and shiftless to
even keep their arches built. Many
a farmer has buckets and complete
outfit for sugaring, but he is idle all
the spring because his arch is out of
order, or he has neglected to provide
fuel for it, that could often be obtain
ed for the bare drawing. The way
the sugar market is now, man can
buy complete outfit, hire all the
work done and pay for the outfit the
first year. Yet this delicious, this
king product of the state, many of
our farmers with good sugar lots at
their very doors and nothing else to
do, allow it to run to waste, just the
same way as they allow half the ma
nure Of their stable to run into the
brook, and then mortgage their crops
in order to bny sailed phosphate.
Why, my friends, every maple tree,
even the shade tree in front of your
door, should be tapped. BY far the
pleasantest associations of the farm
are connected with sugar making.
The stream of sap as it comes rush
ing into the store tub, the roaring
fire, the kissing steam, the swaying
tree-tops bending to the balmy April
breeze, and, above all, the joyous
shouts of the little ones as thew slide
over the frozen snow crust and gather
around for that momentousy event
among them, the "sugarng off. !"
All these should be music to the
farmers ear as well as source of
profit to the farmers pocket.
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