Show CIDER to set at rest various stories and to answer numerous inquiries regard regarding ift the manufacture and sale of cider cider I 1 beg you to give the following statement tile the widest pub publicity libity through the colum columns i ns of your pap paper er the national prohibition act provider that no 0 liquor shall be sold fol beverage purposes which contal contain r js s one b half a if of one percent oneie 0 or amor mor 1 of a alcohol oho by volume A 1 liquor is construed to include practically any liquid or corn com pound by Whatever name called containing one half of one percent or or more of alcohol by volume fit or 1 4 aich may be used for bev purposes cider may be manufactured by persons person S desiring to convert same into vinegar vJ egar negar when this is done a perr permit pt from the director must be jbf obtained ined for such act sweet cider containing less that one ohe half of one percent of alcohol P 1 by volume may be manufactured and sold without the necessity of obtaining permit provided such products product ja is put up and marketed in sterile closed containers pr or is treated by the addition of benzoate bon of soda or other substance which will prevent fermentation in such proportion port ion as to lo insure the alcoholic content remaining below one half of op ope 0 percent of alcohol by volume the responsibility for kee keeping the alcoholic content below such buell percentage rests upon the manufacturer and in any case where aldo r is found upon y the mar market k e I 1 containing Conto ining alcohol in c 49 the manufacturer abow sum fumed ed to have manufactured and sold an intoxicating liquor cider containing less than one half halfon of one percent of alcohol by bv volume maybe may bo sold by the pro ducer to persons holding permits to manufacture manu facture vinegar if such cider however contains one half of one percent or more of al alcohol c ohai by volume when removed for conversion into vinegar it will be necessary that the persons producing same shall hold permits to manufacture cider as above provided and furnish same only upon receipt of permits to purchase in the manufacture of cider sugar or other fermentable substances should under no circumstances be added to the apple juice for the purpose of increasing the alcoholic content inasmuch as such practice is held to constitute the production of a mash fit for distillation within the prohibition of section rev revised IS ed statutes it if is evident from reports received by the director that more care carb will have to be e people making cider so as to keep keel strictly within tile the spirit as well as the letter of the law |