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intimately with lard, constitutes the pomatum 

 used by perfumers. 



Sweet apples especially, and even sour ones, 

 are a valuable crop to cultivate for feeding 

 swine or cattle. Some intelligent farmers 

 consider them quite as valuable as potatoes, 

 for this purpose. 



For milch cows and other cattle, and for 

 swine, we believe trees bearing sweet apples 

 might be made far more profitable than any 

 of the cider orchards ever were ; to say noth- 

 ing of the moral benefits which every farmer 

 would derive, from feeding to his four-footed 

 hogs, what he formerly was sometimes wont 

 to employ as a means of making a two-footed 

 hog of himself. 



Uses of the Juice. The juice of the apple 

 is called Cider. Cider is commonly made of 

 the refuse apples of the orchard, mixed togeth- 

 er. But to make the best cider, use mellow 

 sweet apples only. Grind them finely in a 

 clean mill, let the pomace lay in the trough of 

 the mill, two or three days or even a week, if 

 it can be without fermentation. This gives a 

 fine color, and a peculiarly rich, saccharine fla- 

 vor to the liquor, not otherwise obtainable. 



Strain the liquor, as it comes from the press. 



