| Show points point ill hi cider vinegar L R Z bryant secretary of the cider and cider vinegar matters association of tho the northwest recently hall had the following in to say iu in prairie fanner tile the essentials for maki ng cider vinegar on oil a 1 small scale are a i gri gridier grimier taller to grind up tha apples into a fine pulp a i good press to extract the j juice nice barrels to put tile the juice in ili a frostproof frost proof room or cellar to store the product in ill and of course a good supply of decent apples ordinarily Oid manly good windfalls wind falls will make good material for vinegar but care should be taken to reject all ini matute wilted and aud rotten apples when the cider islade is made it should be put into good iron bound barrels and ranked up out of doors but in the alie shade and allowed to ferment the barrels should be placed on oil timbers or poles elevated from froin tile the ground sufficiently to allow the contents to be run off into other barrels on the approach of freezing weather rack off the vinegar stock into clean barrels only three fourths filled by means of a faucet placed in fit tile the end of the barrel or preferably with a dyphon made of the die eighths rubber tubing this should be raised an inch above the bottom of the barrel toi void draw drawing in off the sedi sediment ment all settlings should be put into a separate barrel the barrels can now be ranked up in ili their winter quarters quarter the bangs bungs aiken out an and 1 remain undisturbed until the contents become good Vil vinegar legar provided they are kept in a furnace heated cellar or artificially heated room an ali ordinary oid inary cellar is too cool to males malce vinegar quickly and if such a place is used for winter storage alie barrels can be reni oed toa common shell hed on the ap of warm weather remembering always to rack off the contents before a barrel is moved never put barrels in the sun in liot hot weather as they will be spoiled and the contents lost when the vinegar is thoroughly made a cool dry cellar is an excellent place to store it and the barrels may be filled and bunged banged up tip to make good cider or vinegar use good clean apples exposure to heat beat and air is what makes vinegar to have blight lit clear vinegar free from must rack it before me moving ing it if it lias has been stand nii any illy length of time and thoroughly clean tile the barrels as 33 soon as emptied good vinegar cannot be made out of a large quantity of water and a little cider barong late made cider may bear the addition of a little water but that made eaily catty in the season will not |
