The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-28
MAPLE SUGAR o
Vermont Xot tho Chier Producer-One Kind or
sugar TO BE Avoided.

Vermont Not tho CHIEF Froducer-One Kind or
sugar TO Be Avoided.
Vermont, for some reason" said O COM
mission dealer. 'is generally supposed to he the
one great source of the country's maple sugar
supply. and yet Vermont makes less than one
fifteenth of the whol,. Eermont's reputation
for producing the finest quality Of sugar Is de-
served. 70. the sugar makers Of that's .e were
tho first to recognize tho Importance of the
commodity rs . factor In domestic as well as
foreign commerce. and to bring to its manu-
facture not only scientific helps. but tho DO
tent aid of observation and study of the maple
tree. and the effects upon 1t Of climat.. coil.
and meteorological conditions. Vermont ma
ple sugar has national fame. ms has Goshen
butter. although there is not q Mound of but
ter made In or around Goshen that enters mar
ket now. nor has there been for years.
New York city dealers sold IL. 900. 900
pounds of mapl. sugar last year. Throe-quar-
tiers of that amount was sold as Vermont sugar.
ne least 4 200. 900 pounds more than that State
prod To-day Delaware and Cattara igus
counties In this State. some of the northern tier
counties of Pennsylvania. particularly S Is
auehanna and Wayne. and more particularly
a centrcl county Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
besides the counties of the Western Reserve OF
Ohio. are making maple sugar equal to the
N0Ty DOuL LudI rNci thhio iioui tLuDht, Jdbt
as our own Delaware and Chemung counties.
and certain counties as far away rs Illinois.
are making the butter that people set in their
wayr arc tod ny buying under the old name
and fame of Goshen butter. SO. while maple
sugar bought az Vermont sugar In this city
may not be the Green Mountain State prodcct.
buyers may rest easy. Tho chances are that
they have got sugar made in New York.
Pennsy lyania. or Ohio. but 1t IL Just as good.
1.-THE true maple sugar season begins about
March !. and Taste until the middle Of April,
yet ono sees every Year. early In February. in
tho high priced fancy groceries of this city.
tempting looking bars and cakes of maple
sugar labelled 'vernont-First Run The gro
GERS buy that article FOR Just what they repre-
sent It to be to their customers. but instead Of
being tho first run OF the Vermont sugar camps
It is the last run OF the year before. and some
thing else. At the close OF every maple sugar
sea son certain Vermont dealers. and dealers in
other sugar : making localities. too. buy up
and sugar they have ON hand. These dealers
send out agents through the country 10 hunt
cheap, ana is ieptoyer until the next winter. AS
early as January the dealers begin to prepare
4 for the market, The syrup And sugar are
revampins OF the last years Inferior goods Into
York and other cities as tho very first Of the
new crop nf Vermont maple sugar before n
tree has been tapped for the seasons run of sap:
And, although II has more OF the favor Of
genuine maple sugar. tho city folks buy IL at
fancy prices and gloat over It,.
1T a the popular belief that pure maple
looking appearance. In the old days OF maple
luear making the product was necessarily very
dark. because the simple processes then in
use could not make It light, But il was full
Of impurities all the same, No deliberations
the dark maple sugar that should DO regarded
az the pure article, for It 10 more apt TO 30 the
most impure. The very best maple, sugar
light. clear, dry. glogay brown-ao very HIGHT,
| indeed, that Il looks like. clarified beeswax.'