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i^lon cloths are more expensive than cotton, but should be carefully consijdGred 

 uhen you are in need of new cloths for your press » 



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^ Yifhile the full implications of the TIFGA's Cider Certifi- 



•5(-cation Procram have yet to reach the more remote comers of 



■Ji-the County it seems reasonable to expect that certain up- 



^{•country appls pressers^ who shall go nameless here, v:ill be 



^jolted ty the program no less than by their avm product o 



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^s- This is not to fault the program. In fact vre have been 



^s-at this sort of thing for some time, although on a less for- 



■janal, or laissez-faire basis # For example, a fev/ years af^o an 



■Ji-impromptu little contest in the interest of cider consumption 



•jafas held in the Birrnt Hill country* 



•5f Cooperatjjig in the promotion vrere a pair of itinerant 



4K;hoppers, The contestants sipped cider of uncertain vintage, 

 -;i-but believed to be old enough to remember Pearl Harbor, and 

 ^i-tried to guess whose horse blanket it had been strained 

 ^through. This pioneer effort is believed to be the forerunner 

 ^-of the present program, although accounts of it appear only 

 •i;-in the records of the district court. 

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•K- Proceeding in the belief that undue emphasis on contests 



■Mdetracts from the educational values of a demonstration, uni- 

 ^'<f ormed agents of the Commonwealth furnished transportation 

 ^ifor the finalists to the county seat and lodged thom family 

 •»'«style, FollovT-up consisted of a result demoid.ration the next 

 ■i'Atlfio ivhen the local magistrate questioned seriously the bene- 

 ■stfits accruing from such promotion* 

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^ In summarizing he considerately outlined to the parti- 



•"'feipants the speediest and most direct route to the state line, 

 ■J^/Tien last heard from the choppers vrere said to be actively 

 ■Jiengaged in certifying hill tovm cider among the remaining 

 i«unenlightened to the north. In other words, considerable 

 ■Jtaissionary virork of a sort has already been done© 

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■K- It remains to be seen hovrever whether the new program 



•«fri.ll be able to convert our zealous cooperators to a blander 

 -Jfci±r and get them on the right read. In this connection we 

 ^'CLorviarded to the pair an inspiring little tract entitled ^ 

 ^"T/here Do V.e Go From Here?", the same being an original ad- 

 ■'dress delivered by a reserve infielder of the Philadelphia 

 ■^Athletics and widely-used in Extension circles, 



^'<- Evidently it took,for the first mill visited by our 



■5bhoppers report that they refused to quaff until all equip- 

 ment was thoroughly cleaned at the end of the day's run using 

 % detergent-sanitizing agent o 

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