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health; or, if they cannot be convinced of that, they may be 

 brought to see that it is as much an imposition to sell a cus- 

 tomer acid for cider vinegar as it is to sell oleomargarine for 

 butter, and to prevent the swindle pass a law making it a 

 misdemeanor to sell either under a false name. 



Although in general we have not much to learn from for- 

 eigners, we might with profit adopt many of the laws of Ger- 

 many or England which require a strict supervision of the 

 articles sold as food, to prevent the sale of dangerous or un- 

 healthy articles and compounds for what they are not. When 

 it is made a misdemeanor punishable with a fine for any one to 

 sell vinegar under the name of 



PURE CIDER VINEGAR 



which is not genuine, a reform in this direction will follow, and 

 a market for the surplus fruit of our orchards will be opened 

 that will astonish the fruit growers themselves. 



Owing to the competition of the acid vinegars sold under 

 the name of "cider or apple vinegar," no great amount of cap- 

 ital has been invested in the business of making the genuine 

 article, but we are confident that with the increase of our or- 

 chards such manufactories will spring up. The capital re- 

 quired need not be large, but the market is assured. At 

 present there is little uniformity in the pure article, for the 

 average orchardist who has but a few barrels of cider to turn 

 into vinegar has no facilities or does not think it worth while 

 to take the time to make his product uniform, hence one barrel 

 is excellent, another is poor, and the third of decidedly bad 

 quality. A manufactory located conveniently to the orchards, 

 taking both the surplus cider and unmarketable fruits and 

 making a staple article of standard cider vinegar is certain to 

 succeed. With this branch of the business fully developed, 

 another source of profit will be opened to the small producer 

 of fruit as well as the large one; for while the latter may work 

 up all his windfalls and fruit unfit to market on his own prem- 

 ises, the small grower can dispose of his in bulk to the vinegar 

 maker. 



