Morning journal and courier., 1893-05-18
The Country. Maple Sugar Precinct

The Country's Maple Sugar Product.
 Vermont, for come reason," said New York commission man recently to Sun reporter. "fs generally supposed to be the one great source of the country's mspls- sugar supply, and yet Vermont makes less than ne-6fteenth of the whole; yermont's reputation for producing the finest quality of sugar Is deserved, for the sugar-makers of that state were the first to recognize the importance of the commodity as fac tor in domestic ss well ss foreign com meree, and to bring to its manufacture not only scientific helps, but the potent aid of observation and study of the maple tree, and the effects upon 1t of climate, soil and meteorological conditions. Yer mont msple-sugar became of national fame, the came as Goshen butter became 6 household word for all that was superior in the art of butter. making. And Yer mont sugar, like Goshen bntter, holds that fame to-day, although there is not pound of butter made in or around Goshen that enters market now, nor has there been for years- New York city sold twelve million pounds of msple-sugsr last year. Three quarters of that amount sold as Vermont sugar, at lesst four million pounds more than that state prodCoes. To-day Della ware and Csttsraus bus counties in this state, some of the northern tier counties of Pennsylvania, particularly Susquehan- ma and Wayne, and more particularly 6 central county of <Pennsylvania-Somers county-and notably the counties of the western reserve of Ohio, are making ma ple-sugsr equal to the very best that ever mi -r1Gt nr-r1 nal- aware and Chemung counties. and certain counties ss far away as Illinois, are mak- ing the butter that people. set in their ways, are to-day buying under the old name and fame of Goshen butter. So, while msple-sugsr bought as Vermont su- gar in this city, may not be the genuine Green Mountain state product, buyers may rest easy. The chances are that they have got sugar made in New York, Pennsylva- mia or Ohio. It Is just as good. It oer- tainly is if 1t happens to come from Della ware county, N. Y.
 The true maple-sugar season begins about the first of March and lasts until the middle of April, yet one sees every year, early in February, in the high priced fancy groceries of this city, tempting look ing bars and cakes of maple sugar, labeled fVermont-First Rum The grocers buy that article for just what they represent it to be to their customers. but instead of be- ing the first run of the Vermont sugar camps, 1t is the last run of the year before and something else. At the close of ev- cry maple sugar season certain Vermont dealers, and dealers in other sugar making localities too, buy up from the farmers all the poor or refuse syrup and sugar they have on hand. These dealers send out agents through the country to hunt up this inferior and tail end stock. It Is bought cheap and is kept over until the next win ter As early As January the dealers be- gin to prepare it for market. The syrup and sugar are boiled together with large additions of cheap brown sugar and glu- cose. The result of this revanping of the last years inferior gocds into goods stIll more inferior Is shipped to New York and other cities ss the very first of ths new crop of Vermont unspie sugar before tree hss been tapped fer the ssAson's run of zap And, although 1t has uone of lhe flavor of genuine mspls-sugar, the city folks buy 1t st fancy prices and gloat over It."
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