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President Smith. I bought it in ten-gallon kegs and I found 

 that it kept all right. 



Capt. Blakeley. A man that takes the ten-gallon keg of syrup 

 is not disturbed about its keeping, for if it is not made as well as 

 Mr. Whipple's is, or Mr. Kenney's or Mr. Powell's, it will keep. 

 But if there is acid in the syrup and you start to travel any dis- 

 tance in the hot summer season it is bound to work, and it will 

 soon make itself heard before it gets a great ways ; there is no 

 doubt about that. 



Mr. Whipple. I have shipped my syrup to Dakota and never 

 had any trouble in that way. 



Some think that the acid injures the quality but there is one 

 good thing about it, — some of our physicians tell me that the 

 amount of lime that they have in the syrups is of advantage and 

 that it counterbalances the acids; I don't know but they are 

 mistaken. If anyone knows anything about that I would like 

 to hear what he has to say. 



Capt. Blakeley. No acid is necessary for me. I use the great- 

 est care in my food in order that I shall not have any acid. I 

 don't use it. I don't use even the vinegar that I bought from 

 our friend Powell; but my family use it. It is because I have 

 an abundance, and more than enough. There are plenty of peo- 

 ple who require acid, but this is because of a difference in our 

 systems. The instructions from the books are, as well as that of 

 the best chemists of Europe, that you must get rid of the acid 

 if you are going to make good sugar. What I am urging and 

 what I think we must look toward developing ultimately in this 

 country is the sugar industry as well as the product of syrup. 

 We are all able to make syrup. There are many in the State 

 who know how to do it and can make money out of it all the 

 time; but one more step is necessary, — it is practical to make 

 sugar in this State for two cents a pound, as I believe Gen. Le- 

 Duc will tell you, and as Mr. Collyer has told us, and he is 

 indorsed by the Academy of Natural Sciences of the United 

 States. 



There is probably no better authority on these subjects in the 

 United States than Dr. Moore, a man who gets 125,000 per year 

 for his services as sugar chemist. He unqualifiedly indorsed the 

 whole thing. Not only that, but I had an extended conversation 

 with Prof. Silliman, in which he expressed himself as not only 

 gratified, but astonished, at the result, and they both believed it 

 would be a success at that time. Prof. Silliman and Prof. Brewer 



