The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1913-02-07

suit of Trip-Will Establish Market
for Culls and Imperfect Apples. :.
1880 glasses of pure, sparkling APP
pie jelley made in two hours! And
each glass perfect in flavor and all
the various qualities that go to make
for the best in jelly.
And the best part of it that the
jelly comes from apples that are not
marketable-that, otherwise, would
have to be fed to stock or allowed to
rot on the ground.
Then the big watts of apple butter
not the ordinary mess sold at some OF
the groceries, but real, rich, savory
apple butter like Mother used to
make; or was it Grandma? Apple
butter made from the clean, sweet
fruit, with no parings or cores in the
batch. Then the cider! There is
something that stirs in the breast Of
The Tribune's Hired Man at the mere
sight of a big glass of cider.
All this and much more was
what faced the party of business mer
that journeyed to the Manville Frui,
Company's by-products plant las
Friday. The campaign for interna
. development outlined by President
Dorman meeting with such wide
spread and favorable comment that il
was decided to pay the nearest by
products plant visit in order to see
just what was being done, and how
On the road to Boise via Namp;
someways above Meridian, is sta
ton called "Manville" Here thu
partv disembarked. Before them la.
several buildings with an air of eff
fcient industry rounding out the pic
ture, the first building, and the mos
imposing, was a packing house, som'
5Oxl0O, with full cement basement
Just inside the packing house was ;
one end the a-,les are poured into
series of belts that contain hole
through which the apples slip. Thu
first belt contained small holes ane
the apples falling through were culls
These rolled down a padded chute
to the waiting Gull barrel; onlv to b.
wheeled out and placed in the. eide
mill. The next belt allowed tn
smallest marketable apple to sliI
through-each belt having larger
holes, graduations being in quarter
inch progression, until the big fellow:
were left in all their glory. At tho
cad of the machine, after the culls
are sorted the apples move along :
belt without any holes as. the girls
with expert eyes search for apples
skin imperfection, which specimen
are eliminated and go to the cider
mill and are pared and cored for ap'
| pie jelly or butter.
From the boxes at the sorter tht
| apples go to a canvass covered tabit
and are wheeled to the packers. -four
| of whom surround the table and witt
busy hands wrap and pack the beau
ties for market.
The Cider Mill.
The Manville cider mill is the las
thing to be said in cider mills. Ate
the apples have been pressed and al
the Juice extracted, the residue
known as "pumace," is placed in
big vate and hot water poured upoi
the mass. This is allowed to stan'
from 10 to 20 hours and the juice thel
pressed out This juice is very ricl
in sugar and makes fine jelly AM
butter. The pumace may then b
dried and mixed with alfalfa meal
making a most excellent ration. 1t /
very valuable as a chicken feed.
| Apple Butter and Jelly.
| To five gallons of cides is adde'
one pound of sugar. This is poured il
the Jelly machine. The liquid pour
in the machine in steady stream, an
the long box in which the liqui
stands containing a number of pipe
through which steam at pressure
80 pounds exaporates the water an
reduces the five gallons OF cider an
sugar to one gallon OF jell. The I'M
ished product is then delivered in.
steady stream, which keeps one q,
busy with glasses to catch the spark
ing sweet. 49,.
/ In the same building stands a ROY
of big copper kettles in which tn
apple butter is made. The anple
are scalded in a big scalding kettl
and dumped into the butter watts. &c
pether with the proper amount OF c
der or juice from the pumace. Th'
then cooks for between four and hv
hours. The result is pure app
butter that will cheer the heart {
the ioncliest old "batch" ever grow
The cost of such plant as is pres
dcd over by Messrs. ]. S. d. and
w. Manville. would quickly com
hack ten-fold in a community such ;
ours. The big packing house W;
built for $4,000, 1t is sOXim Tee
with a double concrete wall in tt
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