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cents per gallon. The Growers' Association at Excelsior made 

 sweet cider from culls this fall at a cost estimated as not over 

 three cents per gallon. Good quality sweet cider will sell above 

 twenty cents per gallon, and a bushel of apples will yield on the 

 average two and a half gallons or better. This would secure a 



Orchard Queen cider mill— a very efficient press cloth type, made in Minneapolis by 

 . Puffer-Hubbard Co. 



price of better than fifty cents a bushel for cull apples with a 

 net return of better than forty-seven cents per bushel. 



If the three-cent per gallon charge be doubled to cover prob- 

 able costs in the making of vinegar from the sweet cider, it is 

 still an inexpensive process. There should be no difficulty in 

 securing a price of thirty-five or forty cents a gallon for good 

 vinegar. Granting that there will be some loss in the vinegar 

 making, this price would still* insure a good profit from cull 



