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CHAPTER XIX. 



OF THE BUILDINGS AND MACHINERY CON- 

 NECTED WITH A CIDER ESTABLISHMENT. 



The heat of the American climate during a great 

 part of the autumnal months, renders it extremely 

 difficult to prevent an excess of fermentation, destruc- 

 tive of the sweetness and flavour of cider made from 

 our driest and richest fruits hence the necessity of 

 selecting for fine cider, such apples as ripen late. 

 These generally require to be housed, to protect them 

 from rain and frost, and to give them the requisite 

 degree of maturity : to a limited extent of orcharding, 

 the ordinary out-buildings of a farm will supply the 

 place of more convenient 1 structures in a large estab- 

 lishment, the increased excellence of the liquor, and 

 economy of labour, will amply repay the cost of a 

 cider house. A building of 45 by 33 feet, will contain 

 the mill and press on the lower floor, and will hold 

 in the upper story, apples sufficient to make twenty 



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