Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-01-20

take care of this trade. He might
supply the April demand. but the bal
ance of the year his customers would
be obliged to buy elsewhere. The
wholesaler can supply this trade only
partially. as the retailer is likely to
call for packages and forms of goods
that he does not carry and can only be
supplied by the plant which is fitted
for this particular work. So believe
that in the future a much larger pro-
portion of the trade is to be supplied
by local concerns making year
round business out of the product. :.
At the present time fully Is per cent
of the crop reaches the consumers be-
tween the first of September and the
first of April. Usually the hardest mar
ket in which to sell goods, and in which
the lowest prices are received, is the
April market. This is due largely to
the fact that during this time thou
sands Of maple sugar makers are CON-
peting for business. IL one firm offers
syrup at 80 cents, all buyers in it's To-
cality consider 80 cents the market
price and put up kick if they are
| charged more. This illustrates the
result OF the spring competition.
which does more than all else to lower
the price Of maple goods. 1t would
work to the advantage of the pro-
ducers if they should ascertain about
what prices are charged by those in
the packing business and keep theirs
as high for very often they could sell
higher than the house making bust
ness of handing such goods, especially
if they have a fine product: for the
same reason that fancy dairy butter
will outsell creamery butter. No
average grade can be as fine as the
best.
There should be, and / expect there
will be, several concerns located in
different parts of the state that will
make it their business the year through
to handle and put up maple goods for
the trade. To do it all at one point
would require very large investment
in plant big enough to do the work,
and the expense of bringing the goods
together would be an item of great
Importance. This matter will, how
ever, work it's own solution in the
future development of the trade. 1t
is, nevertheless. being demanded by
| dealers that the goods they buy for
pure shall be packed in the locality of
production and that they are very sus-
picious of anything put up elsewhere.
The farmer should decide where he
| is to market his goods and in what
form before they are made. If he has
local trade, or consumers or retail
| grocers are TO have the crop, have no
suggestions to offer as to how he shall
put them up except to advise that he
put them up as nearly as possible in
the form they are wanted. If the
goods are to be sold either as sugar OF
syrup to Vermont packers, then he
should undertake to put them up as
this trade wants them.
If syrup is to be made for sale to
packing houses, either secure storage
from the party to whom you expect tc
sell and fill that or buy some good
alcohol or glucose barrels. or. better
still. new barrels, or some five-gallor
jacketed tin cans. Do not commit the
folly, practiced by SO many each year.
of putting your syrup in gallon cans.
You will lose the cost of your can or
each gallon so put up and also quite 9
chance of selling. Packers will not
buy syrup in gallon cans if they car
easily avoid it, and the reason fol
this is not fancy, but real. 1t takes 6
long time to examine the quality OF
100 gallons of syrup in gallon cans
and as no packers send out syrup thai
they have not themselves put up, il
means emptying all of these small
cans, each one of which takes nearly
as much time as it does to empty {
barrel of so gallons It also takes {
good deal of room to store any consid
cradle quantity in gallon cans tina
are not boxed and Grated. Therefore
the packer prefers the large package
and will pay for it as much or more
and furnish storage. than he will give
for the gallon cans. The producer lose'
all he paws for the small cans and no
body is benefited.
We frequently meet this condition
The farmer expects to ship his syru
away to some customer and puts it VI
in gallon cans. He sells few gal
Ions. perhaps. and then his custome
fails him and he is left with his syrul
on his hands. Such cases will occur il
every business, but the producer. TO
his own interest, should avoid as ia
as possible such conditions. Ten cent