Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-03
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28-The cider
w market is being bulled.

WASHINGTON, Sept 2S-The cider
w market is being bulled.
A few years ago you could buy all
the cider you wanted for about five dollars a
barrel. Now you are lucky if you can buy
a barrel of good cider for twenty dollars,
and in many sections you are lucky if you
can buy good cider at all.
This sudden increased demand for cider
may or may not, be connected with the fact
that the senate has excluded non-intoxcat-
ing cider and wine from the long list OF beV-
erages banned, and that the conference COM
mittee on the prohibition measure shows a
tendency to concur in this lenlency. Or
course, the conference committee may change
it's mind, even before this is off the press,
but if present indications hold good you may
make cider and own cider without breaking
the law.
1t seems probable that cider may rise to
the dignity of national beverage Cldef
has for many years been made in almost
every community in the United States. Most
Americans are acquainted with cider as a
soft or semi-soft drink which is both who're
some and good to the palate, and lew OF
them are aware that cider which mas attaln-
ed mature age under favorable conGlIlonS
is not so soft. In fact the drinking or nara
cider is in some country communities a we'll
recognized and popular vice. But clder IS
wholesome, and it never develops very
high percentage of alcohol. furthermore,
the making of hard cider is difficult ART
not hardened in just exactly the right way
the cider will turn into vinegar ana algn
itself with the White-rlbboners by plClH6 Che
tongue of the wOuld-be sinner, MoSt oI US
will probably never know cider except Ill lIS
etrictlv fresh and very mildly alcOhollc CON
ALTON and few of US have enough room IN
side to get drunk on one or TWO per cent
beverage 1t would seem, therefore, IilaC IL
there is any beverage in the Worlo oeoluo0
snring water and milk with Whlch an An AN =
In tJl1Ct
tbot one If there is a cup that cheers WITH.
ont inebriating, that can Keep the Joy VI
oorviviaIity alive in the world without Scal-
daIizing the righteous, that cup may well
contain cider.
The new interest in cider has had the ef-
feet of turning attention upon the few cider
mills and cider bars which are scattered
about the country. These establishments
have heretofore existed overshadoWed by
their more powerful rivals. They are Almost
sure now, to increase in number and IN I'M
portance. 4l,;L,o~+
of Mr., r. M. Whitney, on pennsylvania
avenue. here in Washington. Mr.. Whitney
hoe heen making cider and cider vinegar
and nothing else, at this same SIanu Iol
thirtv-fve years, and yet many WashlhgI0n-
ians have discovered the place but recently
1Tho hack mart of Mr.. Whitneys establlsh-
wont is factory where fifty barrels OIL Gldel
nor dav are turned out by steam power
PRESSES. The front part is bar OF tne olu7
fashioned kind, with foot rest ana graz le.
full fragrance. Nothing but cloer PASSES o'0l
this bar. ~ :.
Mr.. Whitney, a kindly old gentleman, IS
what people describe as character. lie
knows cider from the tree to the stomach
in all it's varieties and ages. On his country
place he raises apples so that he may expert
mont with different varieties in the making
of cider. He will tell you, for example,
about Hughes Virginia. crab apple little
known brand, which is the most wonderful
cider apple in the world. Cider, made prop
erly from this little red apple with the olac :1
eoo+s has a neculiarly delicate flavor, and
has the further popularity that it will de-
veiop ten per cent of alcohol without trace ira
of acid. Of course, it need not be developed
to that extent.
This crab apple cider also produces an ex-
ceptionally fine bead" as the farmers say
"a content of carbon dioxide, which makes
it tickle the tongue just like soda water.