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Show ciDnn in uunopE. ' HoToraa. I. opPlanllar" Hear and Tfao. In I ..lorn lant,l The consumption of beer In Oeimany has doubled In the patt twenty years. It Is now said to be 126 liters a year a h"d of tho whole population. In ranee, on the other hand, wine la the national beverage, and the ute of It It moro extensive than ever tlnee the re-1 CO,0r.r of the country from the ravaget of Phylloxera .Notwlthelnnillng the Increased uso of beer in Oermany and of wlno In Krance both countries ore going Into tho bualnest'of manufacturing manufactur-ing nml drinking cider Tronco haa mado elder for many yenrt hut It Is nlmott n new Industry In Germany Doth nations like elder and are drinking drink-ing moro and moro of It, though tho Increasing In-creasing quantity does not seem to diminish di-minish the consumption of their national na-tional boverages In three months beginning be-ginning with September last U00 car loads of apples arrived at Stuttgart alone for tho elder mills of that city. Somo of tho apples wero raited In Oermany, Oer-many, most of them In lladen and tho Ithlno provinces, but a far larger number num-ber came from other countries Met-glum Met-glum and Holland sent 1.115 car loads, Kranco I.20S Austria Hungary JtO. Italy G70 and even far-away Spiln contributed con-tributed forty car loads At each load of apptea was woilh about 1260 tho thrco months shipments to the Stuttgart Stutt-gart cider mills represented a largo sum of money These statistics apply only to one city and thcro aro malty other towns In Oermany that nro ae-tlvo ae-tlvo In clder-mnklng The business Is said to bo developing most rapidly throughout Wurtcmburg Whllo Oor-many Oor-many imports moat ot her cider apples, Kranco raises her own atipply. Quito a i number of tho northern mid central do-Ipartmenta do-Ipartmenta have planted many thou 1 sands of applo trees In tho past few '! years Tho elder crop comes from slx-' slx-' ty-tlvo departments, but mors than halt 'of It la derived from Normnndy and 'Drlttany, Nearly all the elder Is for ' homo consumption and the Imports 1 amount to very little Tho older mills of France aro now turning out 160,-' 160,-' 000,000 gallons of elder n year, ao between be-tween wine and elder all Frenchmen ' if high or low degreo have plenty of j Irlnk without recourse to any contld-1 1 irablo quantity of water. |