Show GRAPE MADE MAD C TO DO SUGAR DUTY may be called arfi maple rully fully six air months before the new augland tin gland farmer b rushes brushes up his sugar bugar camp and begins hinging hanging hla his palls on the sugar fugar maple trees the turkish villager in the grape growing province of Is producing tugar sugar for home consumption by a very similar tar process says herman berman A krelder kreider of the american board of commissioners for foreign missions in istanbul turkey gathering na as much as SOO pounds of 0 gropes grapes from a single vine the growers fill a natural rock wine press to a depth of 2 feet and sprinkle on this mass of grapes a coating of crushed limestone from the surrounding bills while two or three men tramp the press presa tor for several hours the juice flows into a 75 gallon copper kettle which never cools from the beginning to the end of the season season after the first boiling the juice la Is dipped out as rapidly as possible into one or more wooden troughs having plugged holes at various heights in the end board the grosser impurities puri ties are here precipitated by t the he action of the limestone and nt at the proper moment the hired pek mez locally spoken of as the professor 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 surface impurities are skimmed off and at the proper ornge the Is ladled out into empty kerosene tins or into small wooden drums especially made for the purpose here after 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 drop Is usually available nt at about one third the price of granulated sugar A still cheaper quality used by the producers themselves Is the product of a special pressing of the shells and husks at the end of a run this being done by means of an antiquated type of screw press the presses and boilers are permanent establishments la in the villages and are operated day and night during the grape harvest season but the kettles are so expensive that the they y are owned only by city men who rent them to the village press owners for the season A special chewing sweet Is prepared by introducing starch in the course of the second boiling while still soft this la Is painted in a very thin coat on blankets and left on the housetop to dry to a quite leathery consistency blissfully ignorant of physical laws and chemical equations tho the villager pours into his a liberal portion of superstition and incantations the itinerant drummer Is on tap night and day during the season to announce to the community that hadji babas run Is finished and husseyn aghas first kettle la Is boiling equally depended upon even if less lesa evident are the m muttered 1 teral arn y oro era band and 0 r the village lidge vi patriarchs who gither gather the steaming kettles to swap yarns of the bumper crops of history boston globe |