Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-02-21
MAPLE SUGAR.

the form of maple sugar and syrup
form one of the valuable products of
Vermont. State Agricultural Com
missioner O. l.. Martin says the state
has an income of 81 900, 600 per year
from this source. He also says that
the income might be doubled if all the
maple groves in the state were
tapped.
For months or six weeks efforts
we doubt if the farmers of the state
realize a better income from any 9TH
er source, everything considered. 1t
appeals to the student of the matter
that the cutting of sugar orchards for
the timber and wood it will produce
is very poor policy indeed and that
the man who has any considerable
number of maple trees which are not
producing him a revenue each spring
is making mistake. Sugaring comes
at time in the year when very little
else can be done on the farm save the
routine of the chores. The products
find a ready market at a good price
and will undoubtedly never be lower.
In fact the market is incre asing, while
some authorities state that the supply
is falling off an he price for good
maple products sure to climb high
err and higher ven now two nor
NAL seasons paw, or the rig required
oly \ 1no q
ira good season will do it.
New Hampshire farmers are real
izing as never before the value of the
maple sugar crop and information
from that state tells of the plans of
many farmers who are rigging up
this year to make maple sugar. Yer
mont has long had the name of max
ing more maple sugar than any other
state in the union, but if the cutting
of sugar orchards continues, we may
yet lose our claim to this title. Again
referring to Mr.. Martin, he urges that
the young sugar naples be looked
after so that the children and grand
children of the present generation
may have chance to produce an ade.
quate amount of the sweet that has
given Vermont both fame and profit.
The marketing of the best of the
product is a matter that ought to re-
ceive the attention of the honest
maker. DR. Wiley, head of the ma.
tional bureau of chemistry, recently
gave out the statement tn t
while he could guarantee the
purity of maple goods shipped out of
the state in which it was made, he had
no control over goods made and sold
IN the state ard was sorry to find
that some adulteration was found. He
said that the slightest adulteration of
maple goods shipped out of the state
would not be countenanced, and prose-
cutlon would be made. It therefore
behooves the Vermont sugar maker to
be honest, to label his goods and re-
ceive the benefits of continually
growing market for honest goods
A campaign of education as to what
pure maple sur is and when it is
made would b benefit to all con-
cerned. The ion Globe recently
said:
almost til. for new maple
sugar to appel J the Boston mar.
ket, although they won't tap the
trees in Vermont for a month YETI
Replying to this the st. Adams
Messenger said:
"a little education of localconsum
ers by the concerted action of the
press of New England, and the whole
country, for that matter, would helI
to boycott one of the meanest of the
frauds by which Vermont farmers are
victimized.
Another fraud in this same bust
ness, for whose rascality Vernon
farmers must pay dearly, is the mis-
cradle sneak among their own frater
nifty who adulterates his maple suga
and sends 1T out as the pure article.
cit is just and fifth g that a relent
less campaign be at all times waget
against the outsider that manufacture
vile connection and passes it, off o.
the market as pure Vermont mani
sugar, but the wotsts. punishment fit
the crime of the man that. lives i
Vermont and sells what purports t
be the pure home product under
false label and guarantee. All homes
farmers should be his prosecutors.
The federal investigation of tn
great express companies is shown
them up to be o-a of the greatest ez
tortioners extan+. These facts ar
only what we ave all known fo
some time. but n thing less than tn
federal governn mt has been able t
make an impression upon their metf
DDS worthy of the name of an expose
The rapid recovery of Bank err. Mors
after his release. from the FEEDER;
prison, at Atlanta, tends to show thu
his sickness. while there and tn