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Old Time Gardens 



might be, when many families stored a hundred 

 barrels for winter use. 



The Washingtonian or Temperance reform which 

 swept over this country like a purifying wind in the 



"Straining off" the Cider. 



first quarter of the nineteenth century, found many 

 temporizers who tried to exclude cider from the list 

 of intoxicating drinks which converts pledged them- 

 selves to abandon. Some farmers who adopted this 

 much-needed movement against the all-prevailing 



