Cider Making,

Otago Witness, Issue 2085, 8 February 1894, Page 20

Cider Making,

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — 111 your issue of January 25 your Wanaka correspondent, under "A Letter From Home,'" says that it takes a cartload of apples to make a hogshead of cider, a statement which is somewhat indefinite. My experience is that it takes six four-bushel bags of apples to make the quantity cited. Our colonial carts or drays would hold sufficient apples to make, say, three hogsheads. Again, he states : " I once saw a letter from a station near Napier, in which it was stated that the pigs lived on apples." Again this is indefinite as to quantity. My object in writing is to point out to any one who may be interested in cider making that machinery is necessary— viz., an apple mill and a cider preßS. A few years siuce the Green's Reef Company, of this place, imported a cyclone crusher, which is simply nothing more or less than an apple mill, and a good one at that. It is now laying idle, and if anyone claims it it is more than I know of. At any rate it could be got for very little. Then a cider press could be easily constructed with the screw of a wool press. No matter if it ia so much worn as to be useless as the latter, it would answer for the former purpose. I have used a wooden screw for the purpose in the early forties. Should any of your readers require any information on this topic, by applying to me I shall be pleased to give it. — I am, &c, John Cole C

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