78 THE BOOK OF FRUIT BOTTLING 
conference between representatives of the National 
Association of English Cider-makers and the Board 
of Trade. 
Without attempting to enter at length into the 
different causes at work which led to the founding of 
the National Cider Institute, we may say briefly that it 
was due to the energy and private enterprise of certain 
well-known cider-makers, amongst others, Mr Neville- 
Grenville of Butleigh Court, Somerset, that cider- 
making as an industry was raised from the very low 
level to which it had fallen. Mr Neville-Grenville, in 
1890, purchased the cider press and mill which had 
been used for cider-making trials by the Royal 
Agricultural Society at their meeting at Plymouth that 
year. He had these set up at Butleigh, and proceeded 
to make cider on improved methods. Four years later, 
1894, the Bath and West of England Society took the 
matter up seriously, and supplied the scientific in- 
formation required in the experiments which were being 
carried on at Butleigh. A little later the Board of 
Agriculture made a grant of {100 a year to the Bath 
and West, to assist in carrying on this important work, 
and after ten years’ valuable experience in this industry, 
the following counties combined and founded a National 
Cider Institute at Long Ashton, near Bristol. 
Devon County Council ; 
eee ‘ With the Board of Agriculture 
Senet ‘i and the Bath and West and 
onmouthshire ear 
oe : 7 Southern Counties Society. 
Somerset = 
Worcestershire ,, 
To make good cider, it is necessary to have the best 
kinds of good fruit, in exactly the right state of ripeness. 
This seems quite simple, but in point of fact it is very 
difficult, because the culture of the cider apple has been 
