THE 



NATIONAL FRUIT AND CIDER INSTITUTE : 



ITS ORIGIN AND OBJECTS. 



THE genesis of the movement which has resulted in the forma- 

 tion of the National Fruit and Cider Institute was, as every 

 reader of this Journal should know, the initiation of research 

 into matters relating to the manufacture of cider by 'the 

 Squire' of Butleigh in 1893. From that season down to the 

 season of 1902-3 the work was carried on at Butleigh under 

 the direction of Mr. F. J. Lloyd, and has, from year to year, 

 been duly chronicled in the pages of this Journal whilst 

 reference has also been made to it in an article contributed by 

 Mr. Neville Grenville to the Journal of the Eoyal Agricultural 

 Society of England for 1901. Furthermore, a full Eeport on 

 the investigations thus carried out has recently been prepared 

 by Mr. Lloyd and published by the Board of Agriculture. 



From the commencement, the work has been financially 

 supported both by the Bath and West Society and by the 

 Board of Agriculture, although the earlier grants made by the 

 Board in respect of this particular work were not specifically 

 allocated towards it, but were merged in the general grant then 

 made to the Society in respect of a good deal of educational 

 work at that time undertaken by it. For the last four years, 

 ending with March, 1903, the grant from the Board has been 

 100/. a year: 



It is unnecessary to make further reference to the early 

 history of the movement, of which the object was the laudable 

 one of reducing the manufacture of cider to a definite method 

 and system, but the past and the present may be linked 

 together by quoting the following short paragraph from the 

 educational Eeport of the Board of Agriculture for 1893-4, 

 page 21. After reference to the other work undertaken by the 

 Bath and West Society, it was stated that 



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