The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-11-18
is GOING OUT OF USE
The Making and Selling OF Applejack
is Very Rapi-ly Falling
OF.

ApplcJack mas always Deen popular
ly regarded as a triple for the pro
duction OF which New Jersey was par
ticularly responsible, as its name and
fame are almost universally assocl
matter OF fact, Orange county, New
York. from the earliest history Of APP
plejack making and until the last two
or three years was one district of New
Jersey, and al one time distilled near
~ as much of it as all New Jersey
The oldest applejack distllery in
the United States is at Warwick and
in that town alone a few years ago
there were twenty-three of the dis.
tillerie1
The pioneer still at Warwick has
been operated continuously by the
Sayre family since 1912.
The worm used in the still was
brought from England years before
The revolutionary war. and was used
at Newburg until purchased by the
original Sayre in 1912 and removed
to Warwick, royalty being paid TO the
English government for its use up
to the time of the revolution. The
worm is made of an alloy of silver, tin
and lead,
The capacity of the old Sayre still
when the demand for apple whisky
worked to its full was 10000 for the
season. Formerly whisky was made
T.. 81 ~ htA
county paid to the government an an
nual tax of $125,000 on its production
more than twice as much as any other
district in the union paid on the dis
tilling of spirits from fruit.
A few years ago a number of the
largest among the farmer distilleries
of applejack in Orange county became
converts 10 temperance during a cru
SADIE and abandoned their stills, re
fusing also 70 sell their apple crop to
any purchaser who intended it for
| distllinS.
Some of the choicest applejack ever
made is stored in the cellars of not a
few OF these farmers, and now and
then ii comes TO light by the necessity
OF public sales in the settlement of es-
tates. and bidding for il frequently
runs as high as sl5 gallon.
Time was when farmers hospi
tality was gagged in Orange county
by the readiness with which he pro
duced the jug of apple and the
aarcity with which he replenished
| it when its contents ran low. But for
years past the demand for applejack
has grown less and less, not only the
local demand. but in the trade gener-
| ally, and this year it is doubtful If
there will be made in the entire dis
| trict-and the decrease will apply to
all other districts in proportion-half
as much of tine liquor as the old Sayre
distillery was alone wont to supply.
The reason given for the decline
in the demand for applejack are var
| ious One is that the large and grow
ing consumption of beer has supplant.
ed the taste for strong liquor, and
that applejack has had TO suffer with
the rest of its kind, but the fact is
| that there is more rye drank in the
applejack country today than there
ever was apple whisky.
Another explanation is that it was
caused by putting on the market of
apple whisky when it was new and
raw In this explanation there is
something of truth, as there is in the
further one, that the peculiar apple
flavor of the mellowed liquor was easy
of imitation by rectifiers, who were
able to supply the market with a
cheap and unwholesome article.
But the chief and all sufficient rea-
son for the passing Of applejack is that
| the international revenue tax on apple
whisky is the same as It is on rye
OF corn whisky, and that to make
gallon of whisky out of grain costs
1.-THE distiller about one-fourth what
It costs to make it from apples.