Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-01-11
The 18th Annual Meeting of the
State Association Opened
Monday Evening.
PRES. CHASE'S ADDRESS
Gives Some statistics on Number Of
Maple Trees Tapped In Vermont and
Competition OF Adultcrnted
Goods in the Wcst-Rc-
port from Sugar Market

The 18th annual meeting of the Yer.
mont State Maple Sugar Makers asso-
CITATION opened at the Van Ness House
Monday night with a large attendance and
Il profitable session which brought out
II great deal of valuable discussion of
questions vital to the maple sugar in
tcrests of the state.
The meeting was called to order al
F:S0 O'Clock by President Perry Chase
Of Fletcher who delivered the annual
address. President Chase spoke as fol-
lows:
PRESIDENT CIIASES ADDRESS.
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Vermont
Maple Sugar Makers association has
been in existence twelve years and let Us
hook back for moment and see its
workings. We but little knew OF tho
good it would work ont for this associa-
lion and the State of Vermont At that
lime. it brought such mon together as
Eemficld, Spear, McMahon. Vail, Miller.
troft and Governor Ben and host of
the best sugar makers of the state of
Vermont, and we had our samples at
PR associations to compare them to-
scther and be pleased or not. and to
taNc social chat I cannot speak of
them all for time will not permit but
~ shall he glad to see them here at This
pur thirteenth meeting of this associa-
ZION and many moro.
From time unknown to us. the In
lians made sugar by tapping the maple
iroes and gathering the sap and boiling
into sugar by heating stones and drop
ping them into it in some kind of a bark
trough as kettle. What kind of an
Instrument they used to tap with We
tould not mud out but are told they made
! diagonal cut into the trees. Their
tuEar must have been clean and pure
md n long time il took for the white
pottlcrs to learn, FOR we are told, that
70 change the condition Of making sugar
lhout the middle of the nineteenth cen
Jury when it was sold for barter at the
stores, il must have been dark wher
made with the implements they used III
those days, for Mt the present time We
find lots of dark stuff. not only dark
but black.
We are in a later day and things OF
more Importance. The subject of adul-
teration of our sugar and syrup. ] wish
we had all the kinds of labels that are
used on the name of Vermont as being
pure Vermont syrup. have one that is
put UP IN ST Paul MINI, pTandeu Log
Cabin syrup 10 per cent. cane, this is
not labelled as pure. and you can guess
tho rest. 1t is largely sold in the West
by one firm in California who uses it in
| carload lots. Another sample, Perfection
Brand, strictly pure Vermont Syrup, Ia
helled Vermont Maple Syrup company
| laboratory St JohnSburY, Vermont, fac
tory Aver, Mass, S. per cent. refined cane
sugar and IL per cent. maple. This is also
q western sample. There are many other
brands all claiming to have the word
Vermont, or maple. Tho sugar industry is
on the increase hut the mixers make
the increase and the profit. so let US
make a better article and find our GUS
toners by the aid of a sample of syrup
now and then, and il will come back tC
Did Vermont. sure as it goes out.
We undertook to find out how many
maple trees were tapped in Vermont but
have not succeeded yet as a good many
have not filled out their blanks. | don't
End any in Lamoille county, one of tho
best sections in the State, also Franklin
rounty docs not appear on tn" list There
ere nearly three towns filled out here
IN tho table showing those that are taken