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The Bulletin. 



*Sent to the Department for analysis. 



MAPLE SIRUP. 



Sirup is the sound product made by purifying and evaporating the 

 juice of a sugar-producing plant without removing any of the sugar. 



Maple sirup is sirup made by the evaporation of maple sap or 

 by the solution of maple concrete, and contains not more than 32.00 

 per cent of Avater and not less than 0.45 per cent of maple sirup ash. 



Formerly maple sirup was adulterated with or substituted by glu- 

 cose sirup, etc., the maple flavoring being imitated by the addition 

 of an extract of maple, hickory or some other bark with a similar 

 flavor; but for some years the chief adulteration has consisted in 

 the addition of refined sugar sirup, the maple sirup present being 

 depended on to flavor the whole, though the maple flavor is often re- 

 inforced by the addition of an extract of bark or an imitation flavor. 



