Show GRAPE MADE TO DO SUGAR DUTY may be called turks maple fully six months before the new E england n gl an d far fanner m e r b brushes ru s h e s u up p bis his s sugar u g a r camp c a m p and a n begins b e 1 I n s hanging h a n g in g his s palls p a 1 I 1 s on the sugar maple trees th the e T turk urk ish villager in the grape growing growl ng province of Is brodu producing e in g su u gar tor for home consumption by a very similar process bays says herman A krelder kreider of the american board of commissioners for foreign missions in istanbul turkey turley gathering as much as pounds et of grapes from a single vine the gr growers fill a natural rock wine press to a depth of 2 feet and sprinkle on this mass of grapes grales a coating of cru crushed shed limestone from the surround ing hills while two or three men tramp the press for several hours the juice flows into a 75 gallon copper kettle which never cools from the begin ning to the end of the season after the th e first boiling the juice Is dipped out as rapidly as possible in to one or more wooden troughs hav lag ing plugged holes at various heights in the end board the grosser tin purifies puri ties are here precipitated by the action of the limestone and at the proper moment the hired specialist locally spoken of as the professor I 1 draws out the upper and later the second plug allowing the cleared liquid to flow back into the original kettle during the second boiling the sur face impurities are skimmed slimmed off and at the proper stage the Is ladled out into empty kerosene tins or into small wooden drums especial ly made for the purpose here aft er some hours the sets to the consistency of very thick molasses in which state it Is transported and stored the market price of varies according to the abundance of the grape harvest but the best Is usually available at about one third the price of granulated sugar A still cheaper quality used by the prodoc ers themselves Is the product of a special pressing of the shells and husks at the end of a run this be ing done by means of an antiquated type of screw press the presses and boilers are perma nent bent establishments in the villages and are operated day and night dur ing the grape harvest season but the kettles are so expensive that they are owned only b city men who rent them to the village press owners for the season A special chewing sweet Is pre pared by introducing starch in the course of the second boiling while still soft this 1 Is painted in a very thin coat on blankets and left on the housetop to dry to a quite le consistency blissfully ignorant of physical laws and chemical equations the villager pours into his a liberal por tion of superstition and incantations the itinerant drummer is on tap night and day during the season to announce to the community that hadji hadj baba a run Is finished and husseyn agha a fart kettle Is boiling equally depended upon even if lese less evident are the muttered pray j ere ers and of the village patriarchs who gather around the J 4 steaming kettles to swap sap aarns of the bumper crops of delmez bistor boston globe |