796 
NOV. 22 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A Boom for Maple Sugar. 
A Bounty of Two Cents ter Pound 
Offered by the Federal Gov¬ 
ernment. 
But only the highest quality maple 
sugar will get this bonus,—How to 
improve such sugar.—The latest 
improved methods.—Begin now to 
get ready, or you may lose the 
extra bounty. 
A tremendous impetus will be given to 
the production of maple sugar by the 
bounty of cent and two cents per 
pound which is to be paid from the United 
States Treasury for all maple sugar here¬ 
after produced in this couutry. This is one 
of the features of the agricultural part of 
the new tariff law. It has been doubted 
whether this bounty would apply to next 
spring’s crop of maple sugar. 
Tne sugar bounty law, Section 241, reads: 
That the provisions of this act providing terms for 
the admission of imported sugars and molasses, and 
for the payment of a bounty on sugars of domestic 
production shall take effect on the 1st day of April, 
1891. 
Therefore all maple sugar made next 
spring in conformity with the law will get 
the bounty. In order to draw the bounty, 
the producer must before April 1, get a 
license from the commissioner of Inter¬ 
nal Revenue, and must make not less than 
500 pounds. 
If the sugar makers’ product is less than 
500 pounds they should cooperate and have 
the syrup carried to one central point and 
there made into sugar on the same plan as 
the Cooley Cooperative Cream Gathering 
butter factories now work and thus save 
the bounty. 
The law applies only to those who expect 
to get the bounty. Farmers who make less 
than 500 pounds of maple sugar, or a greater 
amount and are too lazy to apply for a 
license, can make all the sugar they wisti 
to without being in any way liable under 
this law. But if you want to get the bounty, 
you must comply with the above regula¬ 
tions. This is not a serious matter. It in 
volves only the simplest kind of a record of 
what apparatus you use and the amount 
aud quality of your sugar. Full informa 
tion, with the necessary blanks to fill out 
in order to get a license that will entitle you 
to the bounty, will be sent to you free of 
cost if you write a letter as follows: 
COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. Sir. Please to send all necessary papers 
and blanks for me to All out in order to make appli¬ 
cation to you for a license to manufacture maple 
sugar and get the bounty therefor. Respectfully 
yours, rsigu With your name In full, your post- 
oftlce, county and State.] 
For the coming season, however, it has 
several important improvements. It is 
not the old Cook evaporator, but com¬ 
bines with the best of the foundation prin¬ 
ciples of the Cook patent improvements of 
the Williams and Butler & Corey patents. 
The distinguishing feature of cross-wise 
crimps or corrugations is of course retained. 
These corrugations form resisting cham¬ 
bers that accumulate the passing heat, and 
increase the heat capacity 25 to 50 per cent. 
A cover has been added which still further 
increases the evaporating capacity of the 
evaporator, and, in addition, prevents the 
steam from entering the sugar house, car¬ 
rying it off through the steam chimney. 
This keeps the air of the sugar house pure. 
It prevents dust, dirt, ashes and soot from 
falling into the boiling sap. It prevents 
the steam condensing on the underside of 
tne roof of the sugar house, and, after 
mingling with the dust, falling back into 
the sap, as it is liable to when the cover is 
not used, thus injuring the value of the 
sugar, and perhaps reducing it below the 
standard set for the two-cent bounty. The 
cover also keeps the steam from the sugar 
house, and makes it more healthful to 
work in. 
Again, the double furnace casings form 
air chambers along the full length of the 
arch, through which the heat radiated 
from the sides is drawn up and over the 
face of the boiling sap, and then into the 
steam chimney, thus assisting very materi¬ 
ally in the evaporation and in the more 
rapid removal of thesteam. and consequent 
purity and light color of the syrup. 
r l he \\ illiams Bellows Falls evaporator 
has not only the best and latest improve¬ 
ments, but is the lowest in price when the 
square feet of heating surface are taken 
into the account. 
Another improvement is a sugaring off 
thermometer. This is so made as to be 
placed in the evaporator to get the tem¬ 
perature of the boiling syrup. It has a 
wooden handle, so it can be easily taken 
hold of without burning the hand. Direc¬ 
tions go with these thermometers, telling 
at what temperature the syrup should be 
to give it the density that would make the 
best sugar, and the weight of the syrup 
when cooked. This is more convenient and 
said to be much more correct than the 
saccharometer which has been used so 
many years, as with that the syrup would 
have to be run off into a cup and tested, 
while with these thermometers it can be 
tested in the evaporator, the thermometer 
lying in the evaporator all the time while 
the sap is cooking. This thermometer with 
the Williams improved evaporators makes 
it easy for even one not an expert in sugar 
making to produce a No. 1 article. 
Arrangements should be made at once 
by ail enterprising sugar makers to put in 
the Williams improved evaporators before 
snow flies. The manufacturers will be 
crowded with orders, which will have to be 
filled in rotation. Hence there is quite as 
much necessity for ordering the apparatus 
promptly as there is for applying for a 
license to get the bounty .—New England 
Homestead 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural. 
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ALL ACES ENJOY IT! 
This National Parlor Game is 
Perfectly Harmless and In¬ 
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entertainment for the home. 
Crowing Children need It* 
Everybody needs it for 
Health and 
Amusement. 
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19,1889. 
Mailed 
post paid. 
Nickel, $1. 
Bronze, 
75 cents. __ . . 
ELASTIC TIP COMPANY, ~ 
Cor. Corn lull and Washington Street, Boston, Mas*. 
jQso Patentees ol ROBBER ELASTIC FURHIT0RE TIPS. 
WHY PAY RETAIL PRICES 
When you can buy hand made oak leath 
er Harness, single 87 to $80. Double 
S19.:>0 to $lt). Illustrated catalogue free 
Order oue. KINO Sc CO., Mfrs. Owego, N. Y 
[IN GLOVE 00 Gloversville, N. Y 
, . , *1 Will send you, post- 
paid, ill'eet from factory. 1 pr. of Men’s Wool Mitts 
tV bl,ok palms. 50e.: i pr Men’s me Kid Gloves or 
5! 1 1"; Heece lined, 6(’c.: 1 pr. Men’s heavy unllned 
Calf-kin Gloves, -lie.: i pr. Ladies’ tine Kid Gloves, or 
Mitts, fleece lined, 80e.; 1 pr. Men’s Dogskin Driving 
Gtovos, 90c.; 1 pr. Men's Buckskin Uloves or Mitts, 
fleece lined, 81 ; Best Buckskin Purse marie (2 apart¬ 
ments). 80c.: Buckskin Coin Bag.FOe.; Buckskin Tobac¬ 
co Pooch. 80c. All the above Cor * 4 . 50 . Send card 
for price list. Stamps taken. Satisfaction Guaran¬ 
teed or Money Refunded. 
This request should be made at once. To 
make sure that you get the papers, fill 
them out, have them accepted, and receive 
the official license long before April 1st. 
Remember also that thousands of applica¬ 
tions will be made, that many will rush in 
at the last moment, and that official bus¬ 
iness is always slow, and that as licenses 
will be issued in order of application it will 
be first come, first served. If you don’t get 
your license before sugaring begins, you 
can’t get the bounty. Write the above re¬ 
quest at once, aud you will be all ready for 
the extra two cents long before April 1st. 
The extra two cents will be paid on every 
pound of maple sugar made in the United 
States in conformity to the law. 
But maple sugar must be good to get 
either the extra bounty or fetch a profitable 
price in market. The best sugar will test 
“ not less than ninety degrees by the 
polariscope,” and will therefore be entitled 
to the full bounty of two cents per lb. But 
a large amount of the maple sugar as 
commonly made will test “ not less than 80 
degrees,” and such will get only 1% cent 
per lb. bounty. In fact, the bulk of maple 
sugar in market will test 84 to 80 degrees 
by the polariscope, and thus get only the 
1% cent bounty. Besides this, a large 
quantity of low grade sugar has heretofore 
been sold that won’t test even 80 degrees, 
and such stuff won’t get any bounty. Now 
by the use of the latest improved methods 
and appliances, the lowest grade sugar can 
be so improved as to test over 80, and get 
the 1 % cent bounty. But, more impor¬ 
tant still, by the use of the Williams 
evaporator and good management the great 
bulk of the crop can be brought up to test 
90 and over, and thus be entitled to the 
full bounty of two cents per pound. Not 
only can maple sugar thus be made to get 
the bounty, but the cost of producing such 
sugar is by ths systeim greatly reduced. 
The Williams Bellows Falls evaporator 
Is the most popular in the great sugar 
orchards of Vermont, York State and 
Ohio, which has proved Its excellence 
The evaporator is fitted with double ends 
—that is, has a finishing up apartment and 
faucet at each end. This construction 
overcomes the deposit of so-called ” niter,” 
or malate of lime, which often gives so 
much trouble. It is this niter, or combina¬ 
tion of malic acid and lime, that must be 
largely overcome in order to make a sugar 
that will test 90 degrees by the polariscope, 
and get the full two-cent bouuty. There are 
two ways of overcoming this difficulty in 
the Williams Bellows Falls evaporator. Tne 
first is by reversing the evaporator each 
morning before commencing to boil for the 
day, which is readily done. The deposit of 
malate of lime can also be avoided by 
changing the location of the regulator from 
one end to the other; one day in the front 
end, the next in the back end. Or, it need 
remain in the back end only one or two 
hours, if preferred. Some of the best 
sugar makers prefer to use the evaporator 
iu this way, although those who haven’t 
tried it fear scorching the syrup if run off 
on the front end. The reversing is sure to 
loosen up any deposits of lime when if the 
first out flow is strained through felt 
strainers sold with the evaporator for that 
purpose, the sediment or niter is got rid of 
entirely. In fact, all syrup should be 
strained through these strainers, as it takes 
no more time and adds much to the market 
value of the product. 
Sugaring-off can be done In the back sec¬ 
tion by using the damper which turns the 
heat under or away from the evaporator as 
desired. This damper will be found to be 
of great value for this purpose. The Wil¬ 
liams evaporator is made with or without 
the cover to be set on a stone or brick arch. 
It is furnished with or without the cover 
when sold with tne portable iron arch. The 
iron arches have the outside jacket and 
two flues or not, as desired. By examining 
the illustration, which shows the whole 
evaporator clearly, it will be seen that there 
are two passages at the bottom of the fur¬ 
nace. The damper turns the heat or smoke 
into either as desired. There are many 
other points in the manufacture of maple 
sugar which it is impossible to embrace in 
this article, but which are covered iu an 
illustrated circular tnac any reader of this 
paper may obtain free of all cost by apply¬ 
ing for it on a postal card to the Vermont 
Farm Machine Company, Bellows Falls, 
Vt., stating that he saw this offer in The 
Rural New Yorker. 
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LATEST WHOLESALE PEICES 
-OF- 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New York, Monlay, November 17, 1890 
Beans.— Marrows—New, *S25@$SfO; New Mediums 
choice, $2 10; Pea, 82 -10(32 50 ; Red Kidney,$3 90 White 
Kidney, choice. $2 4n@$2 50 Foreign Mediums' * 1 75« 
82 25; do Marrow, 82 70 t $2 90; Green Peas. 81 05(3* 1". 
Buttek—Ckkamkky.—E lgin, best 293-c; State and 
Pennsylvania 21 @27%c ; Wfstern b-st, 28rtk8w,c 00 
prime, 2 5%@2?p, do good, 2i(s25i-; do poor, 20(a./2c ; 
Western Iuntati >n Creamery, crime. 21g,22c • uo line 
16318c . do po r, 1K3:3c. Dairy. State, best, 25<aitic; 
do piime, 22@24c; d. good. 19«2!c : do pc or. u««>18c 
Western, prln e. 16:al8c : do fair, 12 «j.ISo; do poor 10 
wile : d 0 factory, nest, 16, 4 IS . do prime 18@l4c:do 
good, I0312%e. 
Chkesk —Fancy, Sept., 9%@9%c: fancy, August 9 <« 
9 ! 4 o; good, SRQS-q; fair. 7 * 4 ( 1180 : light skims, 6%<37c; 
skims, 2<s2%c; unlo, Flat, 6%(<<9%o. 
Eoas.- Near b.v Tresn, 26@27o ; Canadian 22*4'a, 
28c.; Southern, 21*220: Kenero, best, 28%'«25.’: ire- 
house,^8@22c; Limed, I8%<a 19c. 
Fbuit8.—Fbe 8H.—Apples, Blush, $3 5o@84 so ; Snow, 
83 50@$5 (0; King, 84 UU@$510; Baldwin, S2 50@S4 5u ■ 
Gre, u. 83 00 -$5(0 Ben Davis, $3 50,3 84 60: common 
t, good, <1 000,83 00; Lemons, per box. $3 75,0.85 10 
Pears, Cooking, per bbl , §J 00<* $5 00 ; Bose, per b< x 
$3 00@$5 00; Secki 1, per keg, $4 • $5 ; Anjou, do, > 2 26 
<883 00; Duchess, per bbi., $5w$6; Cram,er ies Cape 
Cod, $7 50(a .$9 00 per bbl. $2 (of2 no pji , rale; do Jersey 
82 00 a $2 50 per crate: Grapes, Cone rd, I0@25c per 
basket. Catawba, 15«> 2'e per basket. Florida oranges 
$2(384 00 ,,er box. Quinces, *2*87 per bob 
Domestic Driku Apples—Evaporated, good to fancy 
1814(3160; poor, I2%4> 13e; coarse cut, 8%ta9c; sliced, 
3»Uo; do oiu, 3%<.a394c Chopped, 4,tt4%e. Cores and 
sains, 4-<< 4%o. Cherries, new. 9@8zc, Uo, old. ttajloc 
Kaspberries. '.83300; Blackberries, Sw/ie; Huckle¬ 
berries, new, 18®'.0c; Plums, new. 10@l2c: Peaches 
California peeled, SOeSSe; do unpeeled. 1 7w Oc. South¬ 
ern unpeeled, 0%i37c ; Apricots, California, 17 . 0,21 <> - 
Plums, Cal., i 6317c. 
Gams —Quail, prime, per doz, *1 25(38150; Kng’ish 
snipe, frt eh,per do*. $1 50; Gold- 11 piov. r. prla e 
p-r doz., * 125 ., $150 St lid snipe, per doz. 2u@25e • 
Par ridges State p, r pair, 1:0 * 25 uo V\ est in' 
p r pu'r. i'icwM to. Grouse, Western per pair, sOco, 
90e; Woodcock per pur note85c; Veils: n, ftesh Bud¬ 
dies, per lo, ]4<3!6c; do frozen, 14a,.rc, Wild Ducks, 
W estern. Canvass, per pair, $2 5 *83 00; do, do. Red¬ 
head, per pair, $ 13 $I 50; do. do, Mallard, per pair =0 
(»H5e: do, do. Teal Blue wing, per pair. 10 , 0c; do, do, 
common, per pair, '■ 0*25e; Rabbits, per pair, 2)»2ftc. 
Honey —California ext acte steady at 04i@7c, with 
some lots held higher, tomb honey qu'et at liwis- 
for white cover in l 1 > box s UwPc for 2 lb boxes- 
buckwheat quoted, :2s lie. 
PouLTRt. Lirksskd —1 ursey- mixed, per lb 10a 
12c; Fowls, western, choice, 8%<o9c; do common to 
good, 5<38e; Ducks, spring, good, 10,317; Squat. 
white, per dozen, 82 50(38-; do dark, do. 8156 
Chickens, spriug, Philadelphia 8® 12c.: Western 5 
10c : Fowls, near by 9310c. 
Poultry-Livk.— Chickens-Spriug, per lb, 8fi9c 
Fowls near-by, per lb. 8,b8%c. do Western, per It. 
S@-c; roosters, per lb. 5c—c; Turkeys, per a., 8a 
9c; Ducks, Western, per pair. 55 8 c. Geese, West¬ 
ern. per pair. $1 25<3$1 50 
Vkqktablks.—P otatoes — Long Island, per bbl 
$2 bj(382 90 : Jersey, per do., $1 T.-gg;*2 5t.; West¬ 
ern New York, do., 8175(382 65; Sweets, do, $1 n 
@$3 00 . Onions-Western New York $1 75*82 25 Con¬ 
necticut Red, $2 504.82 75 do White. *3 50 -a.Si 00; do 
yellow. 1 2 50(0.82 75; Western, $2 2 a« 4 *2 50; Jersey, $2 2t 
@*2 .a; Cabbage, L. I., per 100, $2 2.V385 00. Squash, 
per bbl., i5c@$l 25; Turnips, pier bbl. 75*80c. Egg 
P ant, per bbl.. $1 tots$4 00 ; Cauliflower, per bbl., Sia 
82 > 0 , Celery, per doz , 25c»7‘c. 
GRAIN MARKETS 
WHEAT—There was an increase la tne interior 
movement, and tuts nau a weakening off, et. .abides 
widen the seaboaid clearance were quite moderate 
On the spot toere was a break of 2 2%e as influenced 
by tne business In options. Sales Ungru ted Winter 
" c @ j'.0O.i ; No. 2 Re 1 quoted, #1 el. valor. 
$l 019*1 afloat; No. 1 Hard Spring Nominal, $1 0 ,% 
No. 2 November, 99%; do December, $1 0 -PiiaSi 0m«- 
do January, $t 02J4@<1 03<tf: do February?? u 3 >oY 
>1 < 4%; do March, a. 04%'„$lu6; do April, tlOOa; do 
May, SI 10 7-16 $ 07; do July, S l 01c«i$l 02%. KYit. 
Firmly held but trading slow. Western. In noniloads, 
(juoieT at 1 4 u. 4 be■ l anada, 71^a72Kc to arrive: staff 
roe bin. BARLEY. - About steadyT Sales—No. . Mil¬ 
waukee quoted SO.tblc; Ung aded Canada, 90 c s7c 
89c; extra No 2 do, 9 c No. 1 Canada. 9u 
ta.9,e. BARLEY MALT.-Firm. Sales-Old citv made 
Canada, 95c; new western quoted 95c<c$l; Canada 
«■ "5.3U J'. CORN.—Also suffered a se vere 1 ,re .k 
Rece'pts continued light, out ueilh. r that nor 1 he 
Cviiihiued export buying bad any material < fleet 
I lie spot market broke about %c, and trading was 
quite brisk. Sales—Ungraded Mixed alia White, c. 
ov aipe No. 2 .Mixed, 56*p(aa7c store and elevator, 
..i4t.c afloat: yellow, 60e ; No. 2 November, 564ac ; do 
S’ L ^r. 0r, nAT« 54 w d ° Ja ' iuar y. 5'S. 5S> 4 c; do May, 
58..59%c. OATS.—Were .Dewise depressed, as In 
fluent-ed by the general drift on all speculative 
articles. Receipts w re small, but without effect 
On the spot there was a break of iqc3l4 4 c with freer 
offerings, closing stead). Trading was fairly active 
s-les—No. 3 mlxeo, 4t.%c «,4S44c elevator; No. 8 white 
49%is449%e elevator; No. 2 mixed, 4iR<gi4i9So elevator • 
No 2 white, 3(1*4-inuaiRc elevator; No. I white, 5.'ce 
t levator: No. 2 Chicago 4S_jc, Ungraded mixed West- 
eru, 45@c0c: do white, 49.t5.c.; No. 2 November 
dtuber, 4?->i«tJS-^c; do January, 49c do May' 
49^. ..o^c; No. 2 White November, 5o*4e; do Decem¬ 
ber, oiijpc; do May, 51%e. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVES-Owing to IR-ht arrivals, some of the sel¬ 
lers started out to get hlgn prices, but butchers old 
not see anything in the condition ot tne beef market 
to warrant a sharp rise In values, aval while meriiu u 
to good cattle were squeezed up about 0 c, comm, u 
natives and Texans ruled steadily tne market clos¬ 
ing dull, with a bare elearanee ot the yards V live 
ear load of very common Texans sola at $2 55 . >\\ 
a eat 1 -ad ot Colorado cuttle at $3 40. poor to good ua’ 
$ l tr >. *;'**« ** carload of line Kentucky do 
atbt .. Bulls un 1 dry cows sold at, $135^82 75 sings 
amt oxen at $2 62 % $3 20 . Private cable advices"e- 
Cilvtd to ay quote refrigerated bt ef steady at 4 d or 
l Kr ll *. and American steers unchanged at 
lo%<*ii%e ttops Uei, estimated dressed weight. 1 
MILCH COWS.—Market nominally unchanged 
CALVES—Steady for veuls at 5..7% c for poor n> 
prime ; an 1 a bunch of gra>sers sold at 2%c West 
erus in heavy supply, and the market ruled dull at 
294134c, with aOU reported unsold at the close, ' 
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Common to very prime 
sheep sold at *4 50 per mu lb fair to p. imp ' ni U 
S 65 U*' a bunch of 11,0106 States broughc 
HOGS -The niurket continues dull and overloaded 
with light Western pigs, whlcn are shipped here 
from Buffalo to And a sale at whatever pGce 
slaughterers will give. Very few state hogs arriving 
and me balance to be marketed will most of them be 
sent to the city after they are dressed. ° 
