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ground freezes and there is little snow, while here the snow is two to three 

 feet deep and the ground unfrozen when it comes time to make sugar. 

 Another difficulty is the excess of lime in the soil and hence in the sap 

 also. 



Prof. Coedley: Oceana comity has taken premiums for the (quality of 

 her sugar, and the Champion evaporator obviates the lime nuisance. 



' S. Reynolds of Hart: I tap 300 trees, only part of the number that 

 stand on forty acres, and make more from them than from my twenty-five 

 cleared acres. If I tapped all there are on the forty acres, I could make 

 more than from any four forties in the county. It is hard work, with 

 snow three and onehalf feet deep, but it is the most profitable of all my 

 work. 



8. M. Peaesall of Grand Ptapids: Have you ever heard of "buddy" 

 sugar? I had some once, but it was from foul buckets, not from the buds. 

 To be profitable, sugar-making must be a very clean process. A single 

 leaf will color sap so that all the pork and eggs in the world 

 will not cleanse it. Keep it wholly clean and you can get syrup 

 and sugar perfectly white. The least burning or souring can 

 never be removed, and no matter if you have ten or fifteen barrels of 

 sap left at night, you must kee}) at work at it till it's all used up. Sugar- 

 making can be made profitable if a j)erson is tough enough to wallow 

 through the snow and be up all night, and if he can be constantly careful. 

 Ten gallons of syrup per day can be made, and that means ten dollars for 

 a day's work. It's grand. 



Prof. Coedley: The dark sugar is sweet, of course, but not so sweet as 

 the white. By imperfect processes and by fermentation, some sugar is 

 turned to glucose, whicKis only two fifths as sweet as sugar. 



T. S. Gueney: I do^ot think the snow is as bad as it used to be. As 

 the country clears up, fiie snow blows out of the woods to some extent. 

 The unfrozen state of the ground is an advantage, and the snow keeps the 

 sap cool and free from souring. We have a short, continuous season in 

 cool weather, and can make as much per tree as can be made in Ohio. 



F. J. Pussell : But it is a difficult matter to break roads through three 

 feet of snow, with horses, and then, after a fresh fall, through eighteen 

 inches more. But if a man can sit around, and take a big share, and have 

 somebody else to do the work, it's all right. 



Adjourned till 9 o'clock, A. M. 



Wednesday Morning Session. 



At the Wednesday morning session, after the appointment of Jas. F. 

 Taylor, Albert Jackson, and Thos. Wilde as a committee on resolutions, 

 Prof. L. P. Taft read the following valuable paper upon 



DISEASES OF THE PLUM. 



'' A\ e hear a great deal nowadays regarding the restriction of immigra- 

 tion of Chinese, and of others who are not likely to be desirable citizens; 

 and serious as the results may be to the country, if the stream now tending 



