A MAPLE SUGAR CONTEST 



Primarily with the object of encouraging improvement in the 

 methods of making maple syrup and sugar, and secondarily for the pur- 

 pose of securing samples of No. 1 quality to be used in educating the 

 public, Mr. John H. Grimm of Montreal, a director of the Pure Maple 

 Sugar and Syrup Co-operative Agricultural Association, conducted in 

 the spring of 1913, a maple syrup and sugar contest in which were 

 awarded prizes amounting to five hundred dollars. In the syrup sec- 

 tion there were 513 contestants and in the sugar section 233. The 

 entries, which came from each of the four sugar making provinces, were 

 judged by Prof. C. H. Jones of the Vermont Agricultural College who is 

 considered perhaps the most capable judge of maple products in the 

 world. In judging the maximum points aLowed were for syrup, flavour 

 60, colour 25 and body 15. In judging sugar 60 points were allowed 

 for flavour and 40 points for colour. 



The following tables give the winners, the scores and the prizes won 

 in the syrup and sugar sections. 



THE SYEUP SECTION 





