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We as American maple sugar makers must control our sugar pro- 

 duct and place it in the hands of the consumer. First it pays better to 

 do so and second it insures purity. We know how the pounds multiply 

 as they pass through other hands in our large cities. It is a duty we 

 owe ourselves, our nation and our customers that we provide some means 

 whereby sugar may reach its ultimate destination in the pure state it 

 leaves the camp and that the consumer and producer may be protected 

 and thereby share in the profits of the speculator and the middle-man. 

 In Vermont more new up to date sugar making apparatus and equip- 

 ments have been installed in the past five years than ever before in the 

 history of the industry. What has made the change? The "pure food 

 law" faithfully enforced and the work of our association. Our state 

 appropriates $500 yearly for the Maple Sugar Makers' Association, to 

 use in increasing, promoting, and advertising the maple sugar industry 

 in the state and so assisting the farmer to increase his income. Never 

 before in the history of Vermont were the prospects of the sugar makir 

 brighter than to-day. People are alive to the fact that quality counts 

 and are willing to pay 25 cents per pound for^No. 1 and from $1.50 to 

 $2.00 per gallon for prime syrup. As the purchasing public become 

 alive to the quality of fine, pure goods and as makers learn to manipulate 

 their plants so as to turn out choice products there will be less and less 

 of the strong, black kind made that will bring only 8 cents per pound 

 or 75 cents per gallon. 



The wealth of the world is for those who can get it, let us get ours 

 in a legitimate way by drawing from the people of wealth our share of 

 their income, which they gladly spend to secure luxuries of quality and 

 purity. 



