OIDER-MAKING IN WAIKATO.
A older mill is tanning at Cambridge (Wajkatu) thia year, and a correspondent. of the " Auckland Herald " remarks coif oernlag it : — "The starting of this mil' has been » great boon to the fruit grower, v his apples, even of an inferior kind, find a ready sale at the rate of £5 per ton The price given 1b low, but oven that is batter than giving them to the p'gs. Still, If, as Mr Jarrett has stated, he has extracted as rauoh as 11 gallons of older from 1301 bof apples, ps a certain quantity of water has, of course, to be added to the juice, cider mills should ba able t<> afford a larger price for apples The eider should oertnln'y be worth an much as beer, and 22s worn of clde» from a little less thai 5s is the old gimo of the middleman's proporti n of profitl* This, however, is a matter »ha»' will reotify itself as fruit-growers get their own local mills and competition ■tops m. First- cUbb oider mills, as used now m Devonshire, can, it is said, be imported for about £25."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1519, 29 March 1887, Page 3
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190OIDER-MAKING IN WAIKATO. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1519, 29 March 1887, Page 3
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