Show SUGAR FROM TREE AND FIELD I Years Years Ago People Got Sweetening Ma Ma- Material Ma ter al From the Maple arid the the Watermelon As long ago as 1791 1791 Dr Benjamin Rush flush p put t before the Philosophical society society society so so- of Philadelphia an earnest proposal proposal pro pro- to us use maple sugar pointing out that for foi for foia a n great number of years man many hundred private families In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Pennsylvania Pennsy have supplied themselves plentifully with this sugar during the whole year The year yen I before that the United States had bought over o pounds of brown sugar and more than pounds of other varieties from the West Indies Seven years rears after Doctor noctor Rush made his appeal the theL i iron amounted to brown ro L Importation rown sugar nearly O pounds and the loaf sugar exceeded pounds At that In n Philadelphia succeeded in obtaining sugar from Watermelons wa Wa- watermelons getting half a pint of by gradually boiling the the strained pulp and Juice of a n melon that that weighed 14 pounds This led J. J B. B Bordley an agricultural ag rig- ral writer in a book bool published in 1801 that an acre of wat watermelons wa wn- worth orth ot of t would yield |