Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-04-28
SPURIOUS MAPLE SUGAR.
Bureau Of Forestry Says That Seven
Fights Of All Sold Is Of Bogus Variety

Bureau Of Forestry Says That Seven
Fights Of All Sold is Of Bogus Variety
Suggestions.
The bureau of forestry has been study
ing the maple sugar industry with a view
to securing a larger use OF the maple
forests. The area Of maple sugar making
has been greatly changed and reduced
since 1850. In Indiana, Illinois rpd Michi-
gan many maple trees have be,V cut for
lumber The bureau is OF the opinion
that in western Maryland, West Virginia,
Ohio, New York and New England the
maple sugar industry has held its own or
been increased. While the best sap flow
is secured in the cool northern states,
good results may be expected in Pennsyl-
vania, West Virginia, western Maryland,
Indiana and Kentucky, eastern Tennes-
see and western North Carolina. YER
mont, Ohio and New York are the largest
producers of the maple products The
bureau has issued a bulletin giving direc-
tions for the care of maple sugar orchards
and the making of maple products. 1t
estimates that seven lights Of all that is
sold as maple sugar and syrup Is spuri
Gus. The extent Of this aduteraton Is
illustrated by the fact that while the
amount of the raw product has decreased,
the whole quantity sold has largely in
creased, and its market price has been
reduced. OF late years the price has
fallen in direct relation to the decrease
in the price of cane sugar
The most common substitutes used in
the adulteration of maple sugar and syrup
are other sugars and glucose Much of
the so-called maple syrup on the market
is nothing but a combination of sweets,
with a little maple flavor. There is also
a maple syrup which contains no maple
| at ALL but the flavor is obtained by add
ing to the compound an extract of hickory
Il h~Vl .-AW~ ALE
the producers of pure maple syrup to
| compete with cheap limitations. The
price of their raw product is kept down.
and the forests of maple are not as
profitable to their owners as they other
| wise might be.
The consumer is entitled to pure goods,
| and the producer is entitled to have his
syrup and sugar bought and used for
what 1t is. The remedy is in the hands
| of the producers, and they can effect
| n change for the better in two ways.
| They can associate themselves in state
and large local companies. and by selling
| direct to customers, cut out the middle
| men, and they can also put their product
| on the market in the form not of sugar
| but of syrup, which is most in demand.
| The public will not object to paying a
| little higher price for guaranteed pure
| goods. The cost OF making and handling
syrup might be a little more than that
of sugar, but the net returns would be
| larger, the public better served, and the
maple sugar industry profitably extended.
| The association plan has been adopted in
! Vermont with excellent results. Annual
| meetings are held, through whose in
fiuence improved methods of production
| have been adopted, a central market
established, and a registered trademark
created which is a guarantee of absolute
! purity. In this way a trade Of good
proportions has been built up