The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-02-24
To Vermont Maple Sugar Makers.

we call JDe attention OF our readers |
TO the following circular, and commend |
1t to their careful attention.
Will you kindly read this circular,
give the matter moments earnest con-
sideration, then candioly answer the |
interrogatories contained therein.
Are you member of the Vermont
Maple Sugar Makers Association2 If
not will you join, and aid in carrying
on the work which this organization
wishes to accomplish this season?
Ii member, will you kindly remit
your annual fee of one dollar, or signify
your intention of 80 doing, that your
name and address may be kept in the
annual report of the association which
will be issued at an early day2
Are you discouraged or disappointed
in the results of the association thus
far, and can you offer any suggestion
as to doing more and better work2
Would you advise the association to
make an exhibit of maple products at
the coming Worlds Exposition to be
held at Nashville, Tenn, from May till
November?
Would you be willing to contribute
SAMPLES Of your product made this
spring, put up under your own or the
Association label, for this exhibit, and
if so what amount?
Goods made for this exhibition
should be of high grade and sugar made
hard enough to stand the effect of
southern temperature. If this exhibit
ton is made there will be no expense
to exhibitors, except the goods you may
be willing to furnish for the exhibit.
Are you of the opinion that through
the organized effort of the Association
we may obtain the enactment of law
by Congress to prevent the fraudulent
marking or labelling of goods2
Do you believe that trade bureau,
through which to market the products
of the members who might wish to
make use of it, it would be successful?
Had you thought that unless some
thing is done to check the nefarious
business of imposters, who flood the
market with spurious goods under the
label of pure Vermont products, most Of
which never saw Vermont and are
cheap substitutes, that eventually our
maple products would be cheapened to
point below cost of production, and
this important industry of our state Sc
riously injured, if not ruined?
Would you like to advertise in the
forthcoming report of the annual meet
ing of the Vermont Maple Sugar
Makers Association? These reports
will be circulated at the Nashville ex-
position and will 60 into all parts of the
country. You have only to become a
member of the Association, and en-
close one dollar, and your name and
post office address will appear in this
work that we are about to issue. Can
not you economize in some little ex-
penditure in many ways, 80 you can af-
ford to Join the Association this year
and help on in the large amount of
work to be done?
Do you know that this Association
can not and will not assess its men,
bers for one cent? Your dollar mem.
bership is all it will cost you to partake
of all its benefits and the right to use
the Association labels upon your prod
ucts, which can be obtained of the Sec
rotary at cost of printing.
Will you read what Governor Grout
says about organized effort, in his letter
to A. j. Croft, secretary of the Asso-
citation?
81 regret that shall not be able to at
tend the fifth annual meeting of the Sugar
Makers Association. L desire, however,
to say as a sugar-maker and one interested
in sugar making in Vermont, that 1 regard
| it more important to secure a better price
for the average product of the State than to
see who will make the daintiest looking ar
ticle. believe an organization OF the sugar
makers which shall dispose of good, honest
Vermont maple sugar will be able by con-
trolling the sale, to secure a better price.
The organization might receive the maple
in syrup form, sell it as such or reduce IL to
the sugar form; thus being able to offer
Vermont maple in uniformity of appear
ance as to quality and package and under a
guaranty of genuineness. Until something
is done in this direction the greater number
of those who make sugar in Vermont will
have to sell it for but little more than
| cost"
Kindly answer the foregoing ques-
tons and return with remittance for
membership, if you can join us
A. j. CROFT, secretary.