The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-17
VERMONT LEADS
MAPLE PRODUCTS
Total of 6,251,734 Pounds
Made from 5,955,513
Trees
CONGRESSMAN
GREENE SPEAKS

-E1-AAaA-A ANN AAAA NO---S
ate Committee.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 17.-Qualifying
vet again in the Al class of fame as de-
fined in John G. Saxe's immortal toast,
Vermont leads the union in the quantity
of its maple sugar tonnage" according
to the 1920 federal census of agriculture.
AS everybody knows. it doesn't require
any census compilation to convince the
world of the superiority in quality of this
far-famed product of Green Mountain ma
pies.
In addition to the New England group,
the maple sugar and syrup producing
states are listed as New York Ohio, Penn
svlvania. Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
conSin Minnesota. Missouri. Iowa, Mary
land West Virginia. and Virginia, with
a few scattering whose combined output
of sugar scarcely exceeded 10000 pounds.
Vermont's is the lions share in the pro
duction. with a tosaI of 6.2j1.7 34 pounds
/ something in excess of 5000 tons) OF
mamie sugar made in the year 1919, or
| about 'two-thrds of the entire amount
credited to the United States. which was
I06g1 624 hounds New York is a poor
second. with a total of 2.012,932 pounds.
Pennsylvania follows, with hardly more
than a quarter many pounds as New
York, and New Hampshire comes fourth
down the scale. charged with making
800. 733 pounds. Massachusetts leads
Il Maine bv a wide margin, both being well
within the 100,000pound class; Connect
cut was barely able to muster 5000, and
Little Rhody" is left out of the picture
altogether.
How many trees had to be tapped to
produce Vermont's- crop of sugar? Yes,
II the census man can tell you that. He
slv~
II 10000 900 trees or, to be exact TO the nth
degree that they tapped 5,9J5,513 naples
II i'm 1919. or 369.SS1 more than were dee
GRATED with sap-spoutS 10 years before.
This number is One-third of all trees
tapped in the country. At that, however,
the weight of the sugar made fell off some
II 1.41J.O0O pounds as compared with l9u9.
1t is clear that Vermont sugar makers
devoted their efforts to the production of
the solidifed sweetness rather than the
Il liquifed kind. for the states output of
maple syrup. although it led the New
England group with 631,924 gallons, fell
far behind New NOrks, credited with /
I $50. 800 gallons. Ohio is the only state
to exceed Vermont's quota.
Greene Gets in Speech.
| The house mad been cleaning up al
number of odds and ends in the way of
minor bills that had been on the calendar
of the military affairs committee, and the |
! debate upon one of the least of them all. |
an act authorizing the secretary of war
to exchange with foreign nations so desir-
| ing samples of arms and equipment in use
by the army of the United States, had
been dragging along interminaby with a
| plethora of pros and cons that when later
reduced to cold type filled some 10 pages |
| of the Congressional Record. Congress
! man Frank l.. Greene of Vermont. mem
| Der of the committee, was ION guard as
} he usually is whenever military matters
/ are uppermOst. Finally came his chance |
| to sum up the situation with respect to |
| this particular bit of legislation, and this
is how he did it in picturesque phrase
Ology:
/ L am perfectly willing to admit in the
privacy of this room, or under these cir
! cumstances. that this bill is not a very
/ important bill. There is no question
| about that. 1t was brought 'out here in
cidentally in the course of the grist that
| the committee on military affairs is clean
ing up. No one had any anticipation that
it would provoke anything like the
amount of apprehension and alarm that
seems TO be all at once manifested by so
many patriots here. | wonder really. as
a matter of fact, whether we soothsayers
/ can actually look each other in the face
4 this afternoon without laughing. / Won
! der whether we are not really engaged on
Ia little bit of skylarking business that
masks itself under the more cumbersome,
pompouS and ponderous terms of parlia
. mentary law and usage, but which is
q really a little bit of schoolboy fun.
II cannot think that men whose heads
are high enough to be seen above the null
/ titule in a district so that they have been
elected to come to this supreme council
of the nation have any particular uneasi-
ness or alarm about some historical rel
les of a war being tucked away in
museum case somewhere on the face of
n - nd IL hn1s1 Il
That is exactly the purpose of this bill,
the avowed and distinct purpose of the
& bill. and nobody with any kind of d
s microscope can read any other purpose
into its language. 1t is intended exactly
as the gentleman from New York has Sug-
geSted. to permit the secretary of war to
Join with representatives of other nations
in similar capacity in the exchange of his
3 tOrical relics of this last World war and
of the existing military establishments of
1 the several countries so that the museums
of the various countries can be supplied
q while yet there is time in order that their
1 cases may contain for all the generations
to come evidences of some of the curious
MI things used in the long ago. The school
children and the adults viii go there and
look at the exhibits just exactly as you
3 and | go down to the national museum
now and gaze with a good deal of curl
oStty and sometimes with wonder on some
/ of the relics left from the Revolutionary
war. The matter is a perfectly simple
one. saE& #r# te -e 4s#.E i
IF a few folks see all kinds of mys-
terious things in it, if few smell all kinds
of Negroes in all kinds of Woodpiles,
why, go ahead. There are a lot of men
SIwho spend four weeks before a fight
shadow boxing and then get licked in
1 the fight. If you want to indulge in
shadow boxing, go to it. There is nothing
to hit, though you might throw your arms
out
\ This congress IS national institution
and, in spite of the modesty which we
] politicians inherently possess, we know
! we are being looked at by the people. and
] whenashey see that such a trivial thing as
/ this. which is only one of the convention
] alities of extending courtesies among ma
tons, is invested with such a nightmare