38 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1872. 



a gallou of brandy* was obtiiined by distillation from lU.To gallons of 

 eider. The average jn-oduct of s2)iril from cider made in the Xew Eng- 

 land States was considerably higlier than this. The average for this (Sth 

 Mass.,) district was one gallon of brandy to 9.42 gallons of cider, or abont 

 one and one-third i)er cent, above the average of the country, a difference 

 sutHcient to account for the superior flavor and conserving (juality of our 

 apples over those grown in the West, South, and on the Pacific Coast. It 

 has been truly remarked, however, that the tlavor of our a])ples, and of 

 the cider made from them this year is not (juite as good as usual, and 

 persons engaged in distilling cider in this district rejjort that this Fall it 

 rapidly becomes sour, a fact from which they infer the presence of a low 

 per cent, of alcohol. If this inference be correct it is not unlikely that 

 apples ma}' not keep this winter quite as well as usual. 



WILLIAM T. HARLOW, 



Chairman. 



REPORT ON GRAPES, PEACHES, &c. 



Edwix CoisrANT, Chttirman ; George Jaques, Thomas M. Lamb, W. 

 W. Cook, William H. Earle, Worcester ; Paul Whitin, of Wliitinsville ; 

 F. M. Marble, of Grafton ; and Joseph C. Lovell, of West Boylston. 



For the best collection of named varieties, grown under glass, 



Wm. T. Merrifield .1fl2 00 



For the second best, P. L. Moen 10 00 



For the third best, Stephen Salisbury 00 



For the best two clusters of Black Hamburg, P. L. Moen, 2 00 



For the second best, Wm. T. Merrifield 1 00 



For the best two clusters of any other Black grape, P. L. Moen, 



(Wilmot Hamburg) 2 00 



For the second best, Wm. T. Merrifield, (Victoria Hamburg) 1 00 

 For the best two clusters of any White Muscat, Stephen Salisbury 



(Alexandria) 2 00 



For the second best, P. L. Moen, (Alexandria) 1 00 



^■Proof spirit -wliich, according to the deiiartment standard, contains K its volume of alcoliol. 



Specific gravity, 7939, 60° F. A small lot of choice cider made from Roxbury Russetts and distilled 



in Southbridge in 1870, yielded at the rate of 1 of Apple .lack to 7' _> of cider, about 4 per cent, above 

 the United States average. 



Average of United States, . . . 1 to 10.75, or .093 per cent. 



" " Sth District, . . . . 1 to 9.42, or .105 " 



Kussetx in Southbridge, . . . 1 to 7.50, or .133 " 



