Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-09
Enthusiasm Runs High over Com.
mon Sense Addresses at
Rutland.
7HEORIzING IS LEFT OUT
W. W. Holden Tells OF Making $1,000
Worth of Sugar while Orchard In
creased $1,000 in vaIuc-Prof.
l.. II. Jones Suggests Pedi-
greed Trees.

Rutland. Jan. The three DAYS
convention of the Vermont Maple Sug-
ar Makers association. the Vermont
Forestry association and the Vermont
Dairymcn's association opened here
this afternoon with a representative
gathering of Green Mountain state
farmers in attendance. The conven-
tion began at $50 O'Clock with a meet
Ing Of the sugar makers at the Hotel
Bardwell when some hns addresses
We're heard The foresters held bus
mess session this afternoon and the
two associations held n Joint meeting
this evening to listen to an address by
'H-rd of Waterloo. =. O.. on
"The Maple Industry IN Canada: What
the Dominion Is Doing to Establish
High standard Of Quality and Prevent
Adulteration of Maple Goods" He
showed that the farmers across the
line arc keeping pace with Vermont IN
up-to date sugaring methods Prof. ].
'-'-o" of Yale Fo~os'"" school
also spoke at the Joint session IN
state Forestry: a Prospect and Retro
planting and preserving our forests
Governor Proctor was ut to-day's ses-
sions.
Enthusiasm is running high and tho
mapl" sugar men say that they have
never listened to so good class of
common sense addresses. those direct
cl to the farmer without n lot of tho
orizing. as were given to-day. The ox-
IN
ing both maple and dairy products. ar.
satisfactory.
The afternoon session was prcsid
over by 4. ]. Croft Of Enosburgh Fall.
president of the Sugar Makers asso-
citation. In his annual address. he told
Of the Vermont maple products at the
! jamestown exposition. concluding:
FINE MAPLE SUGAR EXHIBIT.
I'VE feel that whatever other failures
| and dlsappointments were experienced at
! jamestown, the Vermont maple exhibit
! was marked success and producers Of
maple products all over this State should
| feel orcourd gcd by the success Of the
| past. to put forth more determined
| effort than ever before 70 make the most
/ of their opportunity 20 develop TO its
very fullest capacity and highest standard
this important crop.
| II would take this opportunity in be-
! half Of the association to thank all who
| contributed toward making the exhibit
a success. especially Mr. John II. Grimm
Of Montreal for the mountain sugar
camp. O. n. Grimm for the display Of
sugar makers apparatus ard the Ver-
mont Farm Machine Co. for the con-
| venient little arch and evaporator used
for sugarlng Off Dudley and A. A.
Carleton for samples Of fine quality maple
sugar.
"A good program awaits your atten-
ton and We hope all restraint will he
thrown aside and all "ntcr heartily and
freely into the discussion of the topics
under consideration. that this meeting
may go on record az one OF the best II
the history Of the associa tiol.. It is gen
orally conceded that with the coming OF
spring much of the depression in business
circles now being experienced will dis
! appear. confluence be restored and goot
paying prices of farm products realized
Let us take an optimistic view Of tn.
situation
AN "OLD FASHIONED" FARMER
w. W. Holden, the second speaker O
the afternoon, gave an address on "Th
Needs of the Vermont Maple Sugar In
dustr-' To-day" Mr.. Holden said that h
was an old-fashoned farmer and he be
lcved in the old-tme sugar maxim:
methods rather than the new parapher
raia. He had made sugar for 35 year
and had sold In that time $1,000 worth o
the product. His woods were worth 81 On
more than they were IS years ago, where
as, had he cut them off for frewood Il
many of his neighbors had done. n
would have had only bramble-covere
pasture.
The needs Of the sugar maker to-da ,
. he said, are more trees, and the necessar
thrift and push to make the most of tn
. opportunities offered him. Nature ha
$ been good to Vermont No other branc
: OF the farm work is so remunerative d
| sugar making, The world is lookin
I to Vermont to furnish II r with NOR
5 maple sugar and the more that is mad
= tho better tho market will ,e. The suga
industry should be to this state what tn
cotton industry is in the South. TIL
, average farmer does not possess the pus
and ambition necessary for success /
. other line Of business.
1--WE need less vision and more reality
less theory ana more common Sense III ii
branches of farming. We must stop nur'
ing hobbies" concluded Mr.. Holden.
An address OF vital interest to all mapl
sugar makers was given this afternoo
u by Prof. L. II. Jones of the Universit
OF Vermont at Burlington. His topic Wa
= How the Maple Lives and Works
4 Professor Jones first spoke OF the pre-
t tcct to establish n museum at the Tn
/. versity OF Vermont illustrative OF III
d various methods and utensils used
Z maple sugar making, especially of tho'
II of earlier days, He exhibited numbt
4 of these relics, some dating back Gel
u fury.
PEDIGREED MAPLE TREES.
Il Taking up the chief topic, he pointe
out how the plant like the animal mu
work for its living. The two chief pu
roses for which II works are food al
. seeds nutrition and reproduction. i
= smoke Of the mode of seeding OF mapl,
;, and Of the varying characteristics
e seedlings, and raised the question as
:, ,he dcsirabilty OF securing pedigree
:, maple trees. Point was given to this SUI
\, cestion ny the fact that some maple tre'