Evening journal., 1910-10-14
APPLE BUTTER NOW
MADE In FACTORIES
Mills Turn II Out Few Hours
After You Haul Your
Apples

GARFIELD, Pa, Oct. 11.--During
September and October OF each year
all roads in Berks County lead 10 the
elder and apple butter mills, for this
Ia the season when everybody has
moro apples than he needs ior winter
use. There is no farming Community
In Berks county to-day that does not
have its community cider mill, where
farmers can take their apples In the
morning and return with the cider
few hours later. but there ere only
two or three places In this great ag-
ricultural county where the farmer
can so speedily turn his fruit into
nice, fresh apple butter.
Marvellous as Il appears TO grand
mother, who used to sit in the old
farm house kitchen with her little
Barlow knife, peeling the rinds on the
red-cheeked apples, pairing and cor
ing them prior to placing them next
morning In the barrel-sized copper
kettle TO be cooked into apple but
ter, Il still appears more marvel
| Gus to the mother OF % years ago, TO
whom the apple butter party was the
/ time of the year" She can hardly
realize to-day that those good old
/ tunes are pdhhlnS away.
Good Old Times Passing.
What a change!" says mother. TO
day we pick the apples; tomorrow
father starts for the cider mill at 6
o'clock" The apples are shoveled into
a grinding machine, ground into pom
ace and shoveled TO one OF the latest
style hydraulic presses, from which
the juice is extracted in a very few
minutes, ready for the apple butter
cooking under the same roof The
cider is then cooked and boiled in
large barrel-shaped receptacles, the
steam running through copper coils
that nicely ht in barrels.
The sweet apples the farmer just
brings along from the tree, and there
is no "snit1lng party" on the farm be-
forehand. They are brought entire, and
are first nicely washed. then placed
IN barrel, cooked by steam until they
form a thin. mushy paste. Then they
are placed I'm a copper Hleve-like in
strument, over which is operated a
rubber lever which separates the skin
from the apples, cores and seeds. so
nothing but pure apple Juice goes into
the apple butter. This nicely-sieved
pulp and the boiling cider are placed
! together In another barrel. the spices
are added. and within As minutes the
steam that runs through another set
OF copper coils will have accomplished
the trick and the apple butter will be
ready TO pour into the farmers milk
cans or crooks In which he usually
hauls It home
The first apple butter cooking fac
tory In Berks county was installed b!
Ex-Connty Treasurer David W. Mo
gel and to-day he and his son John +
Mogel, make cider and cook apple but
ter four days each week for the farm
ers Of the community and each sa
urday cook It for themselves, 20 Sc
e 70 other folk. When the farmer &c
u his apples turned into cider he pa
r. only cent a gallon. For apple butt
4, he pays Is cents extra per gallon, az
:" while It takes four gallons Of cid
OF for a gallon Of apple butter, the Of
outlay In cash is the 10 cents gall'
l. except what he pays for the Epic
a For every barrel OF cider he needs q
q bushels OF nice sweet apples. The q
+ dinarv cooking for a family consia
r, Of two barrels Of cider and four bus
n els Of apples. and the result Is 20 ga
:, Ions OF apple butter.
n the farmer prefers TO sell the al
e pie butter he can realize from 90 cenl
e to 81 a gallon-twice as much as q
could get for the apple butter tina
, was made during the shifting party
perlod. The Mogels have made as hig
p as $4,000 gallons OF cider and 800
p gallons Of apple butter In season. Tn
, high mark for one day was l25 bar
reis OF cider and 240 gallons OF appl
h,,ttn~ nurlnq the buey season the
= work day and night.