Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-10-01
A FINE PRODUCT OF OHIO.
Sweets from the Maple Trees of Geauga
County to BE Exploited at st.
Louis Exposition.

An organized effort is to be made to
show visitors to the St. Louis exposi-
ton what kind of sugar, strip and
CONNECTIONS are produced in the small
county OF Geauga, one of the least of
the So in Ohio in population, and
by no means great area The sweets
which come from the noble maple
trees of the Gcauga hills and little
valleys Will be displayed attractiyely
and pushed for sale with energy and
intelligence. The result. says the Cleye-
land Leader, will doubtless be a reye-
lation to multituGes Of Americans and
nearly all the foreigners who test the
maple products Of Ohio.
Few normal human beings have to
acquire taste for such maple sugar,
maple strip, maple wax, and maple
cream as Geauga county and several Of
its neighbOrs know how to make The
first sample wins its way. People diff
fer much as to olives. Many people find
it hard to learn to enjoy raw oysters.
Several popular food products gain favor
slowly with many persons who come,
in the end, to relish them greatly. But
pure maple sweets, we'll prepared, are
different. They make instant conquest
OF the average palate.
The trouble is, in many great cen
tiers Of population, natural markets for
large quantities Of any fine food. that
maple products, at their best, are hard
ly known. DOctored and half-spoiled
maple strip and maple sugar, so-caned,
Kill the demand for anything sold under
the same name limitations prevent the
average consumer from understanding
how delicious maple sweets can be-
when they are well made Hence the
Geauga county undertaking at st. Louis
will be work of education
Persons of nice and discriminating
taste who once try Western Reserve
maple strip and maple sugar have lit
tie liking for any other There are res
| idents of distant cities who have Ohio
sugar and Ohio strip sent to their
homes hundreds of miles away, because
they cannot get such products Of the
maple tree anywhere else.
Such appreciation of honest Ohio
strip and sugar, made by the intelli-
gent use of the pure sap Of the splendid
maple trees which nature planted thick
ly in many counties OF this state will
be much wider and more general after
the st. Louis exposition. Many more
people will understand what Western
Reserve maple products are and how
far they outclass most of the stuff sold
in other parts of the country as maple
strip and maple sugar.
In the end it will probably be re-
| GREETED by the owners OF farms In such
counties as Geauga that more care has
not been taken to save the beautiful
and stately naples of Ohio Too many
have been cut down for firewood. There
has been too much carelessness of the
maple groves. A good deal OF land has
been cleared of fine maple timber which
would have been more profitable than
Inc crops grown where the forests used
10 stand.
Perhaps the appreciation of maple
sweets may become so general and so
keen that the market demand will lead
TO the planting and careful nurture of
large numbers of maple trees, In the
oeet sugar sections Of the Western Re-
serve. That would be a good thing
Ior the state. 1t would afford solid
promise OF much valuable timber. many
years hence. as well as great crops OF
maple sugar and maple strip.