204 Old Time Gardens 
might be, when many families stored a hundred 
barrels for winter use. 
The Washingtonian or Temperance reform which 
swept over this country like a purifying wind in the 
“Straining off” the Cider. 
first quarter of the nineteenth century, found many 
temporizers who tried to exclude cider from the list 
of intoxicating drinks which converts pledged them- 
selves to abandon. Some farmers who adopted this 
much-needed movement against the all-prevailing 
