Show CI C I 1 DE D E it to set at rest various stores and to answer numerous inquires regarding the manufacture and sale of cider I 1 beg you to give the following statement the widest publicity through the columns of 0 your paper the national prohibition act provides that no liquor shall be sold cold tor for beverage purposes which coni contains ains one halt of one per cent or more ot of alcohol by volume A liquor Is construed to include li compound by whatever name called containing one halt half of one per cent or more ot of alcohol alco liol by volume tit fit or which may be bd used tor for beverage purposes cider may ma je be manufactured by persons desiring to convert same into vinegar when this is done a permit from the director must be obtained borsuch for such act sweet cider containing less than ona halt ot of one per cent ot of alcohol by volume may be manufactured and sold without the necessity of obtaining permit provided such product Is put up and marketed in sterile closed containers or is treated by the addition of benzoate ot of soda or other substance which will prevent fermentation fermentation in such proportion as to insure the alcoholic content retaining below one halt half of one per cent ot of alcohol by volume the responsibility tor for keeping the alcoholic col coholic iglic content below such percentage rests upon the manufacturer and in any case where cider is found upon the market containing alcohol in excess of the allowed percentage the manufacturer will be presumed to have manufactured and sold an intoxicating liquor cider containing less than one halt half of one per cent of alcohol by volume may be sold by the producer to persons holding permits to manufacture vinegar it if such cider however contains one halt of 0 one percent or more of alcohol cohol by volume when removed removed for conversion into vinegar it will be necessary ne essa ry that the p persons producing same shall hold permits to manufacture cider as above provided and furnish n ish 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 tor 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 ot of section revised statutes it is evident from reports received by the director that more care will have to be exercised by people making ing cider so as to keep keel strictly within the he spirit as well a tl 1 letter of the law |