1854. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



417 



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HICKOK'S PATENT IMPROVED CIDER 

 MILL. 



The machine is made to run by horse, steam or 

 hand power, and when the apples are ground, a 

 small boy of fourteen years can press the pomace 

 with all ease. 



In all former times it was supposed that a large 

 quantity of cider could only l)e made l)y using a 

 ponderous macliine, that slowly crushed the ap 

 pies without grinding them line. They were then 

 made into a massive cheese in straAV, and a most 

 severe and long pressure was required to extract a 

 portion of the cider — a considerable quantity be- 

 ing absorbed by the straw and the mass of pomace ; 

 and to obtain this unsatisfastory result, the far- 

 mer had to take all his hands, and perhaps his six- 

 horse team, and devote a whole day that could 

 have been more profitably employed, to make from 

 six to eight barrels of cider. To obviate the dif- 

 ficulty the formers have heretofore labored under, 

 this machine his been invented, and the statement 

 of a few facts will prove that it is not onlythe best 

 machine of the kind in existence, but it is the 

 most profitable that a man can have on his farm. 

 The apples are by tliis machine grated up into a 

 fine pulp, so that it requires but a comparatively 

 light pressure, and that but a minute or two, to 

 extract all the cider, it being ascertained by prac- 

 tical experiment that one-fourth more juice can 

 lie obtained, than by the old process. Besides this, 

 it only requires two hands to grind up and make 

 ^^'^' "ider a larger quantity of apples than can be 

 possibly douu on the old fashioned maclunes. Oni 



this press, owing to the compactness of the pomace 

 in the tub, and the complete manner in which it is 

 ground, a pressure of from three to five tons — 

 that can easily be obtained — will produce a more 

 favorable result than fifty tons pressure on the 

 ordinary cider Press, even if the apples were 

 ground as finely as on the improved mill ; ani if 

 the apples were merely crushed as on the nut ma- 

 chine, it would require a pressure of one hundred 

 tons to produce the result accomplished by this 

 Patent Mill. The following may be adduced as 

 the decided advantages of this mill : 



First — It will make more cider than any other 

 press, with a given quantity of apples in a given 

 time, and with much less labor and expense. 



Second — [t will make cleaner and sweeter cider 

 than any other mill. 



Third — You can make the cider as you want it, 

 and when you want it — and in quantities from 

 one gallon to six or ten barrels. 



Fourth — With it you can press your currants, 

 cherries, berries, cheese, butter, lard and tallow. 



Fifth — With it you can save one-fourth of your 

 time in inaking apple-butter. 



Sixth — With its use you can at all times have 

 fresh and sweet cider. 



By referring to our advertising columns the 

 reader will learn where tlieso mills may bo pur- 

 chased. 



5^ Dr. G. II. Dadd, of Boston, Veterinary 

 Surgeon, author of the Modern Horse Doctor, 

 &c. , proposes to make a tour through the West- 



