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Show Days of Applejack Are Gone. A few years ago Orange county, N. Y., made more applejack than any other county in the Union, New Jersey not barred, says an old-time farmer. In the town of Warwick alone there were 27" applejack distilleries. We turned out 100,000 gallons a year, and paid the governmen: $120,000 a year tax for doing it. There was scarcely a town in the county that didn't squeeze Its quota of apples into cider and convert con-vert the cider into applejack! Orange county began the making of applejack before the Revolutionary war. There is in use in the Sayre distillery dis-tillery near Warwick a kettle and worm, the product of which in applejack apple-jack paid excise duty to King George HI. It was then in a still somewhere in the Hudson Highlands. The Sayre still is the only one left out of the 27. All the old stills in other parts of the. , county has disappeared. I |
