Daily camera., 1897-05-03
MAPLE SUGAR LORE.
Vermont Not the Chief Producer
OF the Article. @
Other States Are Now Vying with
the Green Mountain State in a
the Excellence of Their
Sugar.


commission dealer, "is. generally sup
posed to be the one great source of
the country's maple sugar supply, and
yet Vermont MAKES less than one-ff-
teenth of the whole. Vermont's repu
tation 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 COM
modify as factor in domestic as we'll.
as foreign commerce, 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 it of climate, soil and
meteorological conditions. Vermont
maple sugar has national fame. as has.
Goshen butter, although there is not a,
pound of butter made in or .aroundi
Goshen that enters market now, nor
has there been for years. M
-'sNew-Yoriz city dealers sold 12,OO0,5.
900 pounds of maple sugar last year,.
Three-quarters of that amount was sold
as Vermont sugar, at least 100000
p9ands more than that state produces.g
To-day Delaware and Cattaraugass
counties in this state, some of the,
-Orthern tier counties of Pennsylvania,
articularlyr Susquenanna and Wayne,
and more particularly central coun-
tv of Pennsylvania-Som
sthe counties of the Western Reserve of
Chic, are making maple sugar equal to-
ihe very BEST, that ever came from Ver-
mont. Just as our Delaware and Che-s
r.ung counties, and certain counties as
f1r away as Illinois, are making the
7stItter that people set in their ways are
s7-day buying under the old name and
fame of Goshen butter. SO, while
maple sugar bought as Vermont sugar.
n this city may not be the Green
Mountain state product, buyers may
rest easy The chances are that they
lave got sugar made in New York,
Pennsylvania or Ohio, but it is just as
GOOD. -... -t
The true maple sugar season begins
about March 1, and lasts until the mid
dieof April, yet one sees every year,
early in February. in the high-priced
fancy groceries of this city, tempting
looking bars and cakes of maple sugar
labeled "Wermont@ Ruin The
irroce1s buyithats article forAjust what
they represent il to. be- to their Gus
toners, but instead of being the first
run of the Vermont sugar camps it is
the last run of the, year before, and
something else At the close; Of every
maple sngar season certain Vermont
dealers, and dealers in other sugar
making localities, too, buy up from the
farmers all zthe=poeFaaer aerurefnse asirttpf
and sugar they have on hand. These
dealers send out agents through the
country to hunt up this, .inferior tail
end stock. 1t is bought Thea n, and is
ASept over until the91extz win feT.saE AS
early as January the dea.ers, begin to
prepare it for the market. The strip
and sugar are boiled togetherI with
'ftrge additions of cheap bfowR sugar
and glucose. The result of this re
vampingu of the iastaE years, inferiorf
goods mo FOODS still more inferior Isl
shipped tss5 5NeW York and other citieS
as the very first of the new crop of
Vermont maple sugar, before a tree has
been tapped for the seasons run Sof
sap. Although it has none OF the
flavor of genuine maple sugar, tlle7city
felix's buy it at fancy prices and gioat
over it: - ,5-, n rr1q NJ sjgsIg
at lis the. popular belief that pure
maple sugar is invariably ly known By its
dark, damp king appearanee.lssIn.0
the old days of maple sugar making the
product was necessarily very dark. be-
cause the. simple processes then in use
could not make Light. But twas full
of Impurities all thesame. No adulter-