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American  Milk-Sugar. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Feb.,  1894. 
speckled  alder,  scarlet  thorn,  red  basswood,  hard  maple  and  elm 
freaks,  curly  birch,  bird's  eye  maple,  etc. 
With  the  mention  of  the  large  room,  called  the  Southern  Pine 
Vestibule,  from  its  construction,  I  will  close  on  our  home  exhibit; 
beg  your  pardon,  I  shall  ask  you  to  step  out  to  the  "  Big  Tree  Inn  " 
and  up  to  its  bar  of  what  I  should  say  was  composed  of  one 
entire  piece  of  Oregon  Fir,  about  4  feet  square  and  anywhere  from 
60  to  100  feet  long.  Nobody  ever  could  tell  5  minutes  after  he  was 
in  there,  just  how  long  it  was. 
Yes,  but  there  remains  Illinois  exhibit,  which  was  not  in  Fores- 
try, but  her  own  State  Building,  and  nothing  but  praise  can  be  said 
for  her  that  she  fairly  outdid  herself. 
These  were  the  States  that  had  sufficient  interest  in  the  forests 
and  forest  industries  to  show  them  to  the  world,  and  we  hope  that 
our  foreign  friends  were  as  well  pleased  with  the  result  as  we  our- 
selves were. 
AMERICAN  MILK-SUGAR. 
William  B.  Thompson. 
Read  at  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting,  December  19,  1893. 
As  a  contribution  to  the  College  Collection  of  Specimens,  there  is 
herewith  presented  some  crystals  of  milk-sugar  of  unusually  large 
size  and  attractive  appearance.  These  are  the  product  of  the 
American  Lactose  Company,  operating  at'Plainfield,  N.  J.  These 
crystals,  do  not,  of  course,  present  the  whiteness  of  those  of  the 
*'  so-called  "  cob-sugar — crystallized  on  flexible  sticks,  instead  of  on 
strings,  as  in  the  manner  of  rock,  or  sugar  candy.  This  modified 
appearance  is  due,  as  is  well  understood,  to  the  contained  water  of 
crystallization  drying  in  this  shape  being  quite  unpracticable,  with- 
out involving  loss  of  form.  This  specimen  is  nevertheless  pure,  and 
reflects  a  great  degree  of  credit  on  this  attainment  in  American 
enterprise  and  industry.  It  is  one  of  the  developments  of  industry 
and  gain  fostered  by  a  protective  tariff,  protecting  all,  not  the  few — 
the  duty  now  imposed  upon  milk-sugar  stimulating  American  enter- 
prise in  this  as  well  as  in  numerous  other  directions.  When  we 
reflect  that  the  thrift  of  a  nation,  with  the  careful  utilization  of  its 
natural  products,  and  the  development  of  all  its  resources  constitute 
the  wealth  of  that  nation,  we  can  see  without  further  reasoning  how 
important  it  is  that  the  bountiful  supplies  which  Nature  affords  are 
