Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-12-30
WANT A NEW APPLE.
Growers In Maine Trying to Pro-
duee Snowy Fruit.
History Of one variety That MADE
. Name-Thc cider season aud
the Awfai Effects Of the
Hard stun. =

Names apple crop varies from s.
OOO. coo or iU.OOu.pO bushels in n good
year. TO 2,O0o.O0O to 100000 bushels
i'm an OF year. Millions OF dollars have
been spent IN trying To induce the
trees to give q uniform yield Every
year 80 hat the fluctuations from
80 cents n barre. in good years ;o two
aud Tour dollars q barrel Ia on years
would no longer disturb the prosperity
90 the community. hut no one has
made any Broadway toward success,
says the New York sun.
Fer the past ten years most ~ the
orcharGists have been trting TO de-
,rlop new varieties ~ fruit that will
look well aud stand shipment TO LON
don aud Liverpool markets. where
there is a quick demand for American
apples at fancy prices. The call is
luudcst for n large. snowy, hiph-col-
orpd apple that is hard grained and
able to stand a deal of rough knocking
about without showing signs ~ hodi-
~ harm. These arnles should be- good
keepers md beautiful to look al, hut
their eating and cooking qualities may
be- 81 the worst without detracting
from their value. the English pur-
chaser seeming 10 mall, His selection
with his eyes alone.
Twenty years ego Peter Gideon, o'
Minneapolis, sent to Maine for sciOns
and SEEDS OF hardy apples, writing that
he had spent a fortune and most Of
his lie trying to grow fruit in MIN
nesota. \ bundle Of scions from nan-
gor orchards aud a fsw quart. Of seeds,
some of which were from the native
cherry crab. were forwarded to his
address. Nothing was heard from
him for four or Ave years. Then the
newspapers began to tell Of n Yout.r-
full new and hardy seeding which Mr.
Gideon had ]produccd from n crab
seed grown IN Bangor. According to
the circu rs this new apple. which
was named the Wealthy. would live
Ia a ,.lato whore IA willow wound
freeze to death. and would continue
to. bear year after year without n va
cation In q century. Later trials have
verified man Of these assertions. The
Wealthy has driven the appl,-ptow,ng
belt 30 miles further north, all across
the United States. and has co ycrtud
thousands Of acres Of worthless stony
land into productive orchards: but as
the fruit ripens early and decays ia q
few weeks, II Is worthless for The mar
Eet and no additional revenues vtr,
derived from the discovery, though
more cider was made than ever before
aud the Wealthy apple was rrurdy
denounced In hundreds Of Usrt,i rs
as the greatest curse That ~ In.
vadcd a Temperance community. -,
present the Maine orchlrdi.t 81 VtNd
with too many Kinds 81 apples thai
ripen and TO, in : ptember, and hc j.
still looking for a thrifty, fine grained
aud good favored kind that VIII bear
every year and VIII keep until late
in the spring. The man who viii DIS
cover such m apple can earn a for.
tune and the lasting gratitude Of an
eNpectant public.
Cider making b,gins with the frit
windfalls early ia September. che
first pressing from the apple pup
is drawn of into barrels to he sold as
sweet cider in the city markets as
long as IL remains true to name. the
remainder 10 be left Ia barrels with
wire gauze over III, b~uugholrs. whore
the air makes il over into hard cider.
Very little cider Of the Aysi press
ing finds It's way 20 tie vinegar bar
rel, for while a family can huy vim
rgnr or 60 without, no one can con-
template the approach Of cold vD.ih'
~ with cht,rfulness unle ~ has
laid On a large stock OF hard cilcr.
ln addition To the natural way ct
rl.uiuu cider there are several APP
ru,,d methods 81 intensity Ing ard
fastening The process. Tie ,rc uDst
In y1lu, is 90 boil the cit = rI'i I
il reduced q one, hail Of us uris'htl
bulk. \ larger or smaller quantity
90 new rum or alcohol, the uWguUt
,|UrNiug according to the mean, ard
taste uf the maker. Is then added to
the boiled product 50 it may keep
and the mixture is put away IN SAFE
storage. when this Mind Of hard
cider confirms enough alcohol it can
he used at any time, and IL warranted
to do good execution IL taken in uni,
Client quantity,
The oldest. aud all things cuns'd-
cred the best, way to make hard cider
Is To III n barrel from n press and
put it in a cold outhuili, 70, where
the frost Of winter will wosk in from
the outside and freeze all the com
tents except a small core Of nearly
pure alcohol in the enter of the cask,
when distinguished callers come Nis,
| ting or when cider j. needed for some
great emergency u bit is bored
through the cask and the shell ~ ice
until the middle ~ the barrel is
reached. when the precious fluid is
drawn forth and mixed with hot rum
and is ready for use, Men who are
not familiar with the variety 81 cider
viii be wise II they pnrtakc spariug'
~ of it until they see how IL Affects
those who have become used 10 the
beverage. Sober and decent citizens
have become irresponsible mauiacs
afr taking three glasses Of the mix
iurp. and innocent young men have
committed assaults with intent Ia
Nil upon heir dearest relatives when
they had passed an evening in its
company.
In the local vcrnacular plain hard
cider without any addition is called
hoozr. hard cider with rum or alec.
hol bear, the name % stone wall aud
the liquid heart Of a frozen barrel Is
houured sy the title Of broad Az OF
split-your head
Crime In England.
Sir James Vaughan. for 20 years a
nOlice mngislTale Of Lnnlnn. nniCs q