522 
March 22, 1919 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Spraying for Profit 
Give trees more care and they yield better fruit. Spraying 
is the best protection for your trees and your profits. How 
free your crops are from blight and blemish depends on how 
carefully you spray and how reliable are your spray materials. 
Exercise the same care in protecting your trees and plants 
as you would in buying them. The names of spray materials 
are the same but the quality differs. Buy Orchard Brand 
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do the work. The name on the package is an assurance of 
full money’s worth of crop protection. 
Spray Materials 
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Arsenate of Lead Atomic Sulphur Lazal (for dusting) 
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The Future of Apple Cider Under the ' 
Prohibition Law 
I have read with much interest the 
Hope Farm man’s comment on hard cider 
arid its status under the coming pro¬ 
hibition. It certainly is like meeting an 
old friend to read another’s statement 
on the side of righteousness believed in 
by both minds. In nearly every country 
it seems there is an easily prepared 
liquid with which man may poison his 
system, wreck home and damn his future. 
Mexico and Russia show peculiar evi¬ 
dence of stunted development, part of 
which can possibly be traced to easily 
concocted intoxicants. Tn America, hard 
cider does this kind of work. We who 
live in Western New York’s great fruit 
belt have known this old neighbor for 
many years. He is roundly detested by 
the majority of our people, yet far too 
many are held by his chains. You see, 
heretofore, a barrel or two of perfectly 
sweet cider would come back from the 
eider mill as vinegar “makings,” a seem¬ 
ingly laudable practice to obtain economi¬ 
cally the family vinegar supply. 
But, as the Hone Farm man points 
out, between the sweet cider and the 
vinegar stages the devil holds forth, and 
it often ends in the family vinegar supply 
coming from the corner grocery. It seems 
to me that in the final adjustment the 
only way to correct this evil will be to 
render it absolutely impossible for any¬ 
one to have hard cider in his possession. 
Perhaps few people realize that it is 
possible to obtain legal vinegar that 
passes both State and Federal tests in ’24 
hours’ time from the sweet cider stag* 1 . 
Yet this is true, and is a practice fol¬ 
lowed in modern vinegar factories by 
aid of the generator, described some time 
ago in these columns. If only generated 
vinegar passed the legal standard this 
would work a near miracle in the homes 
of our land if the legislation were made 
sufficiently thorough to govern likewise 
the production of sweet cider. TJnpas- 
teurized “sweet cider” is a misnomer un¬ 
less applied almost at the instant of 
manufacture. A few days, or a few 
hours, under favorable conditions, and 
fermentation begins, constantly increasing 
the sugar conversion. Under prohibition, 
sweet cider, rightly prepared, will be¬ 
come a popular temperance drink, for in 
it is incorporated much of the apple’s 
virtue. Recognizing the increasing swing 
of sentiment toward this harmless drink, 
the manager of one of the largest com¬ 
mercial vinegar factories in this section 
told me last Fall that his company avis 
arranging to enter upon the production 
of a permanent sweet cider. 
So we see that with a merchantable 
sweet cider which does not take on an 
alcoholic content, and with a legal vinegar 
made by the generator process, there 
really are no necessary grounds for the 
existence of hard cider anywhere along 
the process. I have always regarded the 
old-fashioned cider mill as more or less 
of an offender in the relations of life, and 
I. for one, would like to see a generator 
installed in every one of them. On the 
face of it, unde* 1 present conditions, the 
mill operator fulfils Tiis part squarely 
to the letter. Patrons bring cider apples 
and barrels to the mill; they are ground 
and pressed, and the sweet juice placed 
in the containers, ending the relations of 
the operator. However, a myriad of 
latent devils are in that sweet juice. It 
would be quite a different story if the 
patron could only take home from the 
mill a legal vinegar or a permanent sweet 
cider. 
The Hope Farm man does not over¬ 
draw any of the evil effects of cider 
usage. Repulsiveness in one of its most 
ugly forms is possible from habitual use 
of this stuff. A cider drunk is one of the 
worst exhibitions of booze work, lasting 
the longest and often pitching the victim 
into a crazy frenzy. The breath of an 
addict of long standing is enough to make 
one forget his own name for an instant. 
I For the helpless wife who is helpmate to 
such a chained, deluded soul, I have the 
profoundest sympathy. She is worthy of 
every consideration, yet how often do her 
earnings go under seizure to continue this 
unholy state. 
With a stringent prohibition in actual 
effect, farmers need not worry over what 
they will do with their crops. Plans are 
already under way to convert much of 
the grape crop entering wines into pre- 
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Fish Oil Soap 
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Use 100 lbs. per acre for seeded crops , 
200 lbs. for cultivated. These light dress¬ 
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acreage weight engaged in crop produc¬ 
tion. 
WM. S. MYERS 
Chilean Nitrate Committee 
25 Madison Avenue New York 
Make the Farm # 
produce more foodstuffs than 
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beans, onions, cabbage, and other 
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