Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-02-15


found that 'Iittle Vermont" produced
more total pounds of sugar than New
York and more than twice as many
pounds as Ohio. In Ohio the sugar
maker has to contend with bare
ground, frozen so deep that no sal
runs; with drenching rains or soft
SHOWS that plaster over the side oil
the tree and again they are troubled
with weather so warm that the sal
sOurs and ruins the color and flavor OF
the syrup. Mr.. Chamberlain said he
considered it far better to make the
entire product into syrup than to make
ahy of it into sdgar. The most seri-
Gus enemies to the maple sugar indus
try are ignorance of what a luxury
pure maple syrup is and the extent to
which the true product is initiated and
ladulterated and the demand for it de-
stroyed.
Ex-Gov. Josiah Grout said that the
producers who were making an article
Of sugar or syrup that could not be
sold in the original package were OPEN
ing the door to adulteration which
rObs the Vermont maple sugar maker
of one-third its value. The governor
said that some twenty years ago he had
business connections in the West,
while also running his farm in Derby.
He, after a few years of work, had Sc
cured a good trade in maple sugar,
but after his little experience in
politics in Vermont he went back West
where he had established his sugar
trade and found his customers cried
out against him that his sugar was
and they had found other
Vermont sugar better than bis. This |
sugar, the governor said, did look |
whittier and nicer than his. 1t was so !
with graduated sugar as |
to fairly glisten. Gov. Grout thought /
the Vermont maple sugar makers
must establish a market and put a
number of live travelling men upon
The road and work up a trade with
The consumer.
After the governors talk the meet
ng was adjourned until Thursday
THURSDAY MORNING.
In the absence of George II. Soule
# Fairfield, Mr.. Alpha Messer of
Rochester gave a brief, but interest
ng, impromptu talk on preparing ,
maple sugar for market. Among !
ther things Mr.. Messer said; "You :
ant make iirst-class maple sugar UNI !
ess you have first-class sap to make it !
mt Of" Mr.. Messer's syrup last year
cored 30 l-2 and this year his exhibit .,
n syrup scored 80. In speaking of ;.
his he said; "lf | were to sum up :
he essentials Of maple sugar making .
alto two words should say they .
rere neatness and dispatch. In my !,
1gar place we use nothing that is not :
metallic, there is no wood used, and =
Il utensils must be clean; that is an
Important point.
ITO make tirst-class maple sugar .
he boiling should not be at any con- {
derable depth, about an inch and a ~,
alf at the front end Of the evaporator y
nd an inch at the rear Syrup should ,
e boiled down TO about IL l-2 pounds :,
} the gallon, If it is to be retained as :,
'rup. It to be made into sugar it %
Jay be boiled down to u pounds to u u
le gallon. The syrup is then strain -
| through felt strainer. To get =,
rst.class syrup or sugar it must be =,
atched continually, from the time -
e trees are tapped until the syrup or H.
gar is ready to be sold" ID
G. ID. Whitman of Brattleboro -,
'oke on "Caking Maple Sugar for % =,
arket." Mr.. Whitman had charge y, ="
the Vermont Maple sugar exhibit .,
Chicago, where 81 exhibits were u
ade and 81 awards taken, while "
hiO making $50 exhibits, took only Sc
70 prizes, The Vermont syrup had =
been canned hot. The Ohio svrup
as canned cold, and many cans burst ID
ON the heat of the sun on the glass
of and out of 200 exhibits taken to NJ
licago by Ohio only lj7 were shown ST.
e judges. m
In making sugar cakes, | would W
axe them in pounds or divisions of W
e pound. The quarter pound cake m
the most popular size to put on the to
arket." CO
To send to the Pacific coast Mr.. co
hitman said it was necessary that sa
e sugar should be cooked at $50 m
grees, because they would run in
at climate if no. done very low. OF
leh cake should be wrapped in par ed
line paper. ii,
NJ. ID. Mcmahon Of Burlington in re
eaking on what "The Market De- Sc
ands for Maple Goods" said that c,
c eyes OF the entire country had of
tie been turned toward Randolph. NJ
he eyes Of the farmers were turned m
ere because Of the market for maple In
gar established there, where the of
farmers could send their h
rup and sugar and where the dealer W
as absolutely sure Of getting good IN
ticle; the eyes of the politicians are n
rned toward Randolph because thew d,
pect to get their next governor from ps
at town; and the eyes Of Burlington i,
e turned toward Randolph because o.
was Randolph that furnished them 81