C|e faabian Portimltarist 



VOL. III.] JANUARY, 1881. [No. 1. 



HOW OUR NEIGHBORS DISPOSE OF THEIR APPLES. 



Having occasion to visit the City of Rochester in the interests of 

 the Canadian Horticulturist during the past month, the opportunity- 

 was improved by making some inquiry into the disposition of the large 

 crop of apples harvested the past season. There has been an unusually 

 large yield of apples in the vicinity of Rochester, and we expected to 

 hear that a great many bushels had gone to waste because there was 

 no method whereby they could be turned to account. But such was 

 not the case. A good market had been found in the cities for all the 

 really sound first-class fruit at fair prices. Then the evaporators had 

 bought up all of the next grade and prepared them so that they would 

 keep for an indefinite length of time, diminished in bulk and weight 

 so that they can be easily transported. And last of all the Cider 

 Company had bought up all the rest, so that there was not an apple of 

 any quality, good or bad, that had not found a market. 



The Reports of the Fruit Growers' Association having very fully 

 described the process of evaporation, and given exhaustive accounts 

 of the products and their use, it was decided to spend the time at 

 command in visiting the works of the Dufly Cider Company. The 

 main building of this manufactory is one hundred and twenty by two 

 hundred feet, in which are the steam engines that supply the power, 

 the mills for grinding the apples, the presses for extracting the juice, 

 and the vats in which 'the cider is filtered and clarified before beini: 

 barreled for market. The building in which the apples are received is 

 of two stories, and at present only three hundred feet long, but being 

 extended two hundred feet, so that when completed it will be five 

 hundred feet long. Into the second story the apples are unloaded 

 from the cars, in which they are brought from a distance ; and the 

 first story receives the apples brought by the farmers from the 

 jwljacent country. The mills, there are two, are capable of grinding 



