Show cider natural beverage MI waw FF for pioneer americans cider has been called the american national beverage it Is not peculiar to the united states england france and many another temperate zone na tion makes elder cider but it Is true that the juice of the apple has special con notations with american life in no other country do apples grow in rich er abundance or over so broad an ex there was a time when not a farm lacked its apple orchard it was but little more than a century ago that Appl eseed john that curious her prophet of the northwest ter spent a lifetime in wandering over parts of three or four stiles stites punctuating his pilgrimages with I 1 plant i gs of apple seeds so in add I 1 tion to the thousands of tilled and pruned apple orchards the country knew liter literally aliv thousands of apple trees planted by the side of the roa roal I 1 in open pastures on the edge of wood lands beside streams the myriad branci ed monument of Appl eseed john A few gnarled and biggard trees of his planting still stand cider was as a natural bevera beverage e for the pioneer american its biking was easy no elaborate machinery was required its raw material was a fruit of which there was so great a surplus that the product could not be humanly consumed it was a bev which in one stage was suited to the delicate palates and light heads of women and children while in an other it became a sort of N dking s berserk nectar so characteristic of america was this drink that it become the symbol of a presidential campaign william henry II arrison who incidentally came fi aiom om the very heart of Appl eseed johns domain was swept to victory on a hard elder platform washing ton star |