The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-06
State Association to Begin
Annual Convention
Here Tonight
PRODUCT AND MANY
UTENSILS DISPLAYED
Addresses to Be Made in Brooks House,
while Display Is in Festival Hall =
Board Of Trade President to Extend
Welcome.

Festival hall is one of the busiest
men are working to set up for display
purposes all sorts of sugar making
utensils besides tempting displays of
the Vermont delicacy, maple syrup and
maple sugar.
Everything win be in place this af-
ternoon and the hall will De open this
evening and all day tomorrow to the
public without charge. No admission
is charged by the Vermont Maple
Sugar Makers association, which
holds its 23d annual convention in
Brattleboro tonight and tomorrow
The meetings of the association at
which important addresses are to be
made by men interested in the indus
try, viii be held in the parlors of the
Brooks House, but Festival hall is de-
voted to the display of the utensils
and product.
The officers of the association are
anxious that it should be generally
understood that no admission is charged
and that anyone interested in the ma
pie sugar industry is welcome at the
meetings of the association and in Fes-
tival hall.
Late tomorrow there will be the sale
of the products that have been on dis
play and this will give opportunity to
buy the very best and purest of sugar
and syrup, for only the very best is
| displayed at the convention.
! One of the features viii be the min
iature sugar camp of j. B. Pike Of
Marshfeld, where maple sugar viii be
made The miniature sugar house
stands in clump of sugar naples and
inside the house is the complete equip
ment for making syrup and sugar.
Blanche L. Pike of Marshfeld has a
very artistic display of sugar and sy-
rup, the most extensive of any of the
exhibitors. The product is displayed
in almost every conceivable form and
is attractively arranged
Many of the manufacturers of sugar
making machinery and utensils have
displays of their products. Among
these are the Leader Evaporator Co. of
Burlington, Small Brothers Mfg. Co
of Riehford, the Vermont Farm Ma
chinery Co. of Bellows Falls, the Viii
liams Evaporator Co. of Bellows Falls
the Monarch Evaporator Co. of New.
port and the G. H. Grimm Co. of Rut
land, this display being in charge OF
Fred A. Betterley.
Among those here fer the conven-
tlOn are feTTN 1HaSe OF East L dlGnclu
a former president of the association
who was the first ever to have his dis
play scored as perfect. This was q
number of years ago and since then
two others in the state have received
perfect scores for both sugar and sy
rup. Mr. Chase is a charter member
of the association and seldom misses q
convention.
Another visitor is ]. H. Lefevre, sec
retary of the Pure Maple Sugar and
Syrup Cooperative association of Que
bee.
Many visitors will arrive in town
this afternoon and early evening fol
the meeting this evening and the meet
ings to be held tomorrow In the meet
ing this evening, President Horton d
Walker of the Brattleboro board o.
trade will give an address of welcome
| to which George W. Soule of Fairfield
| will respond. There will be an addres
~ by T. s. Brigham, commissioner O
agriculture, on Building Up a Marke
for Vermont s Maple Products, and al
I illustrated lecture by Austin T. Halves
I state forester, on The Utilization o
;. the Sugar Maple.
4 Meetings are to be held tomorrow
!, morning, tomorrow afternoon and to
e morrow evening at which there will b.
e numerous addresses of interest to thos
engaged in the making of maple prod
n ucts.