The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-02
MAPLE SUGAR
MAKERS MEET
TO ORGANIZE
Asked to Join Proposed
Vt. Products Exchange
for Better Marketing

The meeting of local maple su
gar makers at town hall Tuesda,
afternoon was not largely attend
ed. The condition of the weather
was the thing responsible. Simila!
meetings were held at Danvillt
Saturday and at Lyndonville Mon
day.
At a recent meeting in Durling
ton of those interested in the form
ing of a state organization for the
better marketing of mape products
! a committee was chosen to .ee
about local organizations for th,
purpose and E. A. Gray of St
Johnsbury Center was made the
member of this committee for thi.
vicinity.
At the local meeting, Mr.. Gray
advocated its adoption as some
thing that promised to be Of bene-
fit to the Vermont sugar makers,
both in increasing his profits and
encouraging the manufacture of a
DCLttl pIOuuCI.
Mr.. Gray said that the purpose
of the Vermont Product Exchange
will be to encourage better and
more economical methods of hand
ling and cxaporating maple sap to
provide better facilities and agcn-
cies through which the products
may be gathered, graded, concen-
trated, preserved, canned, bottled,
inspected, packed, stored, adver-
tiSed, marketed, sold and distribu-
ted under uniform plan and in
manner better calculated to bring
about higher standards of grade
and wider and more uniform dis
tribution; to lesson the cost of
marketing, to encourage the i'm
provement of the nroduct and the
package and to in every possible
way to safe guard the general in
tereSts of the Vermont maple su-
gar business.
Mr. Gray said that the sugar
makers the state over felt that
they were not getting an edaquatc
return for their investment and
effort in the manufacture of their
maple products. This condition Of
affairs of course does not combine
in favor of large production or the
highest grade product. Many far
mers who have well-equipped Sug-
ar orchards do not operate them
because it does not paw. and those
who do, many o them, "rct out of
it as cheap as they cam" and for
this reason do not furnish the best
grade of sugar or syrup for the
market. The sneaker realized, he
said, that sugar makers who al
ready have good market for their
sugar, are not particularly inter-
ested in this proposition, because
they are not TO be particularly
benefited bv it, but they ought to
join in to help raise the general
standard. With this proposition.
too, the bothcrSomc question will
be the matter Of the disposal of
the surplus product, much as it is
with the milk dealers. This means
that the firSt-cl@Ss stock is usually
readily disposed of at good fig
ure, while the Exchange will be
asked. to holster up the price and
help to- dispose of the poorer
grades
County Agent NJ. v Barnes dis
played a chart showing how the
proposed plan of the Exchange
would work out on an orchard of
700 trees. He figured equipment at
S602; investment, 1904; d total of
1896. The interest account would
'igure at $44.80; help, $i00.80;
depletion. $28.1Q taxes insurance,
tic, $3.50; making "A total of S182
Sc. As an advance for the disposal
If the product of this investment
he owner is asked to take one
share Of stock at par value Of
80. and to advance a sum equal
o cents per spout in his plant
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