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for their own families. You will find in a number of families 

 ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty, or forty gallons ; they would not 

 think of being without it. In fact, there are those who prefer 

 it to any sugar or molasses that the market affords, and, as 

 has been stated, they use it for all purposes of cooking, and 

 with a good deal better success than they do the average mo- 

 lasses that is furnished by merchants. 



Mr. Augur. I think it is pretty generally understood that 

 what Professor Collier prophesied so strongly at Willimantic, 

 when he gave his lecture there, has been realized. They are 

 manufacturing sugar with success in New Jersey and Illinois. 

 The process or method of operating seems to be better under- 

 stood, and the prospect is that it is going to be a success. 

 There is a feeling of encouragement all over the country. I 

 have been interested in seeing so many samples brought in 

 here. I imagine that the best process has not been reached 

 yet, but that there will be a continuous improvement. 



Dr. RiGGS. I saw it stated in the papers that in New 

 Jersey, where they have proper facilities, proper mills, and 

 intelligent manipulators, they had made, the present season, 

 a thousand barrels of sugar — fine-grained sugar, white, and 

 as desirable as you could wish in the household, with a large 

 amount, also, of the syrup. The fact is, I think, established 

 beyond all question, that it is one of the best things that our 

 farmers can raise ; at least enough to supply themselves with 

 what they want to use in their families. 



Mr. Bltsis, of Massachusetts. I suppose the gentlemen here 

 in this State like to know facts ; that is what we want to 

 know in our State. Last year, Mr. D. A. Havens, now of 

 Framingham, Mass., kept an accurate account of what he 

 raised on his farm, and gave me the record of his amber 

 cane. He had as fine syrup as I ever tasted, and the actual 

 cost was twenty cents a gallon. 



Col. Warner. A gentleman here says he pays twenty 

 cents for the grinding and the boiling. 



Mr. Sessions. Mr. Chapman of West Springfield, who 

 ground this cane and made this syrup which has been spoken 



