The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08
List of Officers Elected
Announcement of Prem
ium Awards
CHARGE FOR LABELS
AFTER THIS YEAR

vises Distributing House in Chicago
Secretary of State Wants to Meet
Oficers.
The 23d annual meeting of the Yer
mont Sugar Makers association came
TO a close last evening with the an
nouncement of the prize winners at
the exhibition. These announcements
were made at the conclusion OF the
evening meeting at which addresses
were delivered by c. o. Ormsbee of
Montpelier, whose subject was Mar
keting Maple Goods to the Western
Customer, and by John C. Orcutt, sec
retary of the committee of agriculture
of the Boston chamber of commerce,
who spoke on Ways of Living, Distri-
button and Consumption of Farm
Products, Especially Referring to Ma
pie Sugar and Maple Syrup.
Mr.. Ormsbee told of some expert
ences while in the middle West and OF
the quality of the maple products sold
there at a high price. He found that
the retail dealers in the Mississippi
valley prefer to buy of Chicago whole
salers because they can get any quan-
/ tity Of goods desired within two days,
while to order from Vermont requires
4 Two weeks DeIUTe the receipt OF the
goods and cash is demanded with the
order by sugar makers while so days
credit is given by the wholesaler. He
said the only way TO deal with the re-
tailers of that section would be to es-
| tablish a cooperative distributing
center in Chicago. In conclusion he
said that proper advertising in the pa
pers and magazines of the section de-
sired to reach and extending of reason
able credit to responsible retailers was
necessary.
Mr. Orcutt referred at length to the
different classes of consumers and said
that those who buy maple products are
those who can afford luxuries. Intel
ligent and up-to-date methods of ad-
vertising and well packed products in
stead of the present methods of hap
hazard shipping and packing and grad
ing viii 10 much TO benefit the sugar
makers and their industry.
A study of the centers where the
people live who can afford the pTodGrt
! is nee essary for the Advantages ai>-
osition of it. for any product shouit
90 to the consuming center that viii
pay the highest prices. There must be
a highly organized system of distribu-
ton in order to successfully compete
adulterated products. Mr.. Oreutt 3
talk was illustrated with lantern
slides.
! In the afternoon meeting yesterday
. President Carleton announced that he
had received that noon a telephone
r message from Guy w. Bailey, seere-
tary of state, to the effect that he
/ would like to have the officers of the
1 association meet with him at Mont
/, pelier, Jan. Is, for the purpose of dis
e cussing methods by which the state
. could aid the sugar making industry.
As many of the members were not
c in the room when the meeting opened
I it was decided to postpone the elec-
+ tion of the officers until after the 9TH
er business had been transacted. A
T committee on resolutions was appoint
: ed by the president consisting of Bo-
: mer w. Vail, Perry Chase and c. o.
, Ormsbee
q Hon. Y. l. Spear of Randolph
: started discussion by saying that he
! considered the association was giving
too much for the membership fee OF
;, 81 when it gave 100 free labels and al
the reports that are printed.
Commissioner Brigham said that il
/ seemed to him that the state was do
g ing considerable for an organization OF
n only few hundred members when il
$ turned over to aid the association
over $1,000 in a year. He had talked
: with some sugar makers who knew
I II nothing about the association and th'
|. label. He suggested that there was ;
! mailing list of about 10000 names a
- the experiment station that naturally
> includes many of the progressive farm
7 ers of the state and that it woul,
4 cost little TO have an attractive cir
eular made up and mailed to that lis
of farmers of the state. The circular
'e he suggested, should contain informa
= tion of the purpose of the association
: what it has done and what its plan
. for the future are With it shoul
n be a copy of the label and a reques
i to the recipient to join the associa
n tion. He thought that money spen
40 in that way would be well expende
q. and he suggested that after January
AZ 1917, the free labels to members b
~ stopped and they be charged for a
ur the rate of so cents a hundred.
TO The last suggestion was embodied i
re a motion by Mr.. Spear and was cal
as ried unanimously.
al Prof John W. Stephen of Syracus'
nd y. Y. read an interesting paper o
hit The Maple Sugar Orchard, Its Growt
ed and Preservation. He said, among othC
% things, that the borers are not so dl
,ir struetive in close stands and undei
ey brush as they are in the more open o.