54 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



BY-PRODUCTS. 



H. P. SwEETSER, Cumberland Center. 



{Stenographic Report.) 



Mr. Chairmcm, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I feel that the subject of By-Product of Fruit is a subject 

 that should have more attention paid to it in this country, and 

 I am sorry that you have not been able to find a man more 

 experienced, because I am not a manufacturer of by-products, 

 and have not been connected with that vi^ork. 



I want to say that, because this is a general fruit meeting, 

 I would like to devote just a few moments to the discussion of 

 by-products. As you all know, the consumption of the by- 

 products has come to be an enormous business in itself, because 

 of its many uses. By-products are used to flavor ice cream 

 and ices, and are found in various productions that we get at 

 our fruit stands, including punch and other drinks that are 

 made from the fruit juices that have been concentrated with 

 water. We not only have fruit syrups, but we have evaporated 

 and candied fruits made from these by-products. In the wes- 

 tern part of New York state a great deal is done in the canning 

 and evaporating of some of our small fruits. 



We have quite a proposition on our hands if we handle this 

 in the same way we try to handle fruit in the local markets. If 

 you have an opportunity to dispose of small fruits for the 

 manufacture of by-products, make up your mind that you must 

 produce that fruit at reduced cost on the present methods. 

 This will have to be done largely in the methods of harvesting 

 and in the selecting of varieties. We can produce a large crop 

 of fruit, but the principal part of the work comes in gathering, 

 we can cut down the cost more here than anywhere else. I 

 will cite you just one example : Where they raise raspberries 

 for canning purposes, they harvest in one or, at the most, two 



