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Show Prohibition Sends Maine I: Apples Out to Milwauki By Sam E. Conner I XTATTONAL prohibition has provide, Maine with a market for more than X.000.000 bushels of apples, 90 per ceut of which otherwise would have gone to waste. In return the farmers of Mains will receive Drarly $1,500,000, which otherwise would never have reached their pockets. These 3.0O0.000 odd bushels of apple-Will be additional to the millions of busbeis of apples annually shipped from Maine to meot the demand for cookiug and eating fruit. Those beiug shipped, as told, are cider apples little oues. very sour ones, unfit either for eating or cooking, windfalls; io short, anything bearing the name apple which can be used for no other purpose. Thousands of bushels of wild apples will go out of Maine in these cars, while the shriveled and supposedly worthless fruit of many an abandoned farm's orchard will be gathered for the first time in many years. Every pound of these apples so shipped will bring one cent to the pocket of him who gathers if. These apples will be used to produce, uu-fennented uu-fennented cider and the various kinds of apple juice uow upou the market under a variety of trade names. This Is not Hie first time Maine has shipped cider apples, but never has it been in such proportion or to such markets ns they are going to this full. Heretofore the shipments had hc-n confined to a few carloads sent vinegar manufacturer!. Hut a small proportion of the available crop for this purpose has ever been made use of, either iu Maine or elsewhere. else-where. Maine baa always pressed n considerable amount of older each year. A large portion por-tion of this has been disposed of In the un fermented state, ns sweet cider, while a great part of it has been made into the cider vinegar of commerce. The balance has been permitted to age and become (he "hartl eider" of which critics of prohibition are so loud of talking when discussing Maine and the alcoholic traffic. Th"U same amount of apples will be pressed Ibis fl jn Main cider mills. It would not be surprising tt twice as many were so u-ed in the stale, but this will not materially decrease the shipment to points outside the state. TT ' S very probable that had not the Maine i- Legislature last winter refused to legalise the manufacture of unferuitntad apple juice there would new be several plants for ,1s production to that , state and ths took o( cider apples available for out side shipments innteiin',1) lessened. Nearly ail of these apples now beiiu; siifpeij either to New York or Milwaukee u:l the former breweries. Oaa at the fc4 of the old Milwaukee breweries is uo the eDtire shipment of cider p?! ta four different stations in Maine. At that plant the apples are sent tbsf the presses three times. The 6 4 gives the sweet cider pr app'6 jn'e. i bottled in an unfermented state. ; t-urized and otherwise treated so tilt I can be sold as a beverage without riMiaj the prohibitory laws of states aid M0. Its next pressing gives juice for the cc-facture cc-facture of vinegar and the third ticeti.t provides apple jam acd the pulp fWj left is used in the production of butter. Cider apples to shipped frosi Mais e?r w-iJl total $.275,000 koshb. A "i! necessitate 2$S0 cars to tnsc , I'hese apples will produce 11.450.00S gaM of cider, many thousand gallons of eat '. . i. .' .:.i -is of pouaib el .as apple butter, while their sale iH Maine io the sura of $1.440 .000. As a result of this unexpected ai piecedcniod demand for dteai(a" has witnessed, at shipping points h apple belt, scenes such as bavenevefl" known in the past. Farmers, theft and children have been bringing in c using all sorts of rigs for tbe purree ' have i cine in buggies, other! ia tWJ i . :u.ts. express wagons, oj teas now and then one has come " "' v-v harnessed as a horse woald W bring anywhere f.,v five le forty ' bass ,o a load. Each bag M" ' pounds and the average price is ' g pound, so that tin smalhnl hai and i he larger oues art as $00. I I :f 1 1 VST M.v. m A week carn.Nl $100 gathering I he farm orchard and the orchards iu the woods near their M B of the Ivvs and girls on Msmo fare- apple scene, have this fall erl' to I- j their winter clot Mai way. . ...eiffiiBB hiie the 1 gi lature refused ... ;i, unformeo luice in Maine il did not fowji v.. that iv evew city nd t0"n iring! ,i ,.. possible to purchase) tb""' t!-.eis.m,l- of case, of this PP" - Ml in ' . .1 111 "JL-kUt cl Milwaukee. New c.k 01' Iu. iold in Maine. j |