40 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



ticularly to pigs. It is said that pigs will eat anything 

 but tomatoes and tobacco. Cider making, in some cir- 

 cumstances, offers a more or less profitable outlet for 

 waste apples; and peaches occasionally develop into 

 peach brandy. Perhaps the best brandy made in this 

 country is distilled from apricots; but taken altogether, 

 the production of brandy or other spirits from fruit in 

 America — wine making excepted — is not important 

 enough to affect the general fruit business. 



Wine making is a subject by itself, and can not be 

 treated here. Cider manufacture, likewise, should be 

 treated with wine making rather than with fruit 

 marketing. 



