Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-26
VT. FARM MACH. CO.
ABSORBS MONARCH
EYAP0RATOR co.
True & Blanchard Co., Sell
EvapOrat0r Business to
Bellows Falls Co.
A THRIVING INDUSTRY
Business Startedby True & Blanchard
is Leading Manufacturer of
Sugar Tools

Il ougdr lOOlS
i The Vermont Farm and Machine
Co. of Bellows Falls, VT, acquires
the Monarch Evaporator Co. Of New
port, VT, w. w. True and J. II. Akin
were in Bellows Falls last Wednesday
in the interests of the Monarch Eva.
porator Co. and closed with The Ver-
mont Farm and Machine Co. deal
whereby the latter acquires the bus
mess and manufacture of the Mon
arch Sugar Tools and will take pos
session of the industry on June 1.
1t is to be regretted that Newport
thus loses one Of her thriving indus
tries but the rapidly developing
hardware business OF True and
Blanchard Co. demands all the time,
strength and energy of both MI. True
and Mr.. Akin and without largely in
creased capital and a chance in man.
agement it became more and more
apparent to them that full justice
could not be done to both the store
and the sugar tool business.
Being desirous of seeing the Mon
arch business developed to the limit
of it's great possibilities they are
much gratified to have it go into the
hands of company so splendidly
equipped to develop it as is the Ver-
mont Farm and Machine Co., one of
the pioneers in the manufacture of
sugar tools, having splendid manu-
featuring plant and with selling
force already in the field which covers
every maple producing section in the
country. II 49, -,,-.-.~.-.. Il y.
The Monarch ADyapUiutor sHAtissiine
of Monarch Sugar making equipment
which was later developed, is strictly
Il Newport product. 1t was designed
by Mr.. True and nearly all the later
improvements which have been made
on it during the years of develop
ment are his.
The first Monarch was built in the
tinshop Of True and Blanchard Co.,
where they continued to be made
until the industry outgrew these
quarters and the business moved to
it's present location. While the de-
sign and construction of the same
was almost entirely original and a
radical departure from any thing else
of the kind on the market, the basic
principle Of the same has never been
changed in the least although many
improvements have been made in
details.
The first Monarch evaporator was
built in 1898, there being only two
or three built that year. Of these
one was sold to the late N. F. Ball
and another to Frank Wheelock
and so far as can be learned both are
in working condition at this time.
Since then over 700 Monarchs have
been sold in Vermont, New Hamp-
shire, New York, and a few in
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. The
Monarch Bucket was developer in
more recent years and only the out
break of the war prevented it's man
ufacture in very large way. In the
season of '13 and IA over $4,000 of
them were made and sold. The total
output however has been 125,OO0;
$4,000 of them have been sold this
season. Fifty dollars per hundred and
orders are being turned down every
day on account of their being entire
ly sold out.
The officers of the Monarch Evap-
orator Company, all of whom have
held the same since its incorporation
in 1914, when it took over the sugar
tool interests from True and Blan-
chard are as follows:
President, w. w. True; vice-presi-
dent, J. r. Akin; secretary, E. F.
Robson; directors, w. w. True, J. r.
Akin, E. M. Hunt, f. L. Patterson.
The Monarch line of goods enjoys !
the enviable reputation of being the .
most modern, complete and compre-
hensive on the market, and only
needs working capital, wise manage
ment and wide selling organization |
to make it an industry second to none
of its kind in America.
Aside from the Monarch Evapora-
tor, each being equally popular, are
the Hauling Tank, the Storage Tank,
Sap Bucket, Bucket Cover and the
Im> erial Evaporation.
For the past. eight years Everett
Hunt has taken charge of the produc-
tion of the line and his great natural
mechanical ability has helped to solve
the economical production of the
goods to very large degree and
many of the later improvements in
the construction Of the goods are orr
ginal with him. He will go with the
business to Bellows Falls tn contin,e