THE WAIKATO CIDER FACTORY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1527, 7 April 1887, Page 2

THE WAIKATO CIDER FACTORY.

A visit to Jarre tt's older faotory m Cambridge Waat would well repay the trouble to those interested m tfie start ing of a new industry, whiob if carried to a successful iaaae will do maoh to relieve the fralt market, as the growth of app'eayear by year increases, Mr Jarrett has had made a grinding apparatus and preso on the model of the maohinea m use m the older county at home from which he hails. The former is worked by a horse, and oan put. through a ton aod a half of apples per day ready for tbe press. Be has also erected a large building where the cider is made, and an ex cavated cellar where, when racked off after the first working, it can be stored away. Mr Jarrett either boys apples f rom the grower aiid makon cider for aale on his own account, or receives apples from fruitgrowers and sends them back the cidnr ready main, fit to store away or ose. finding the casks, If required, at cost price. A sewn Back of apples will, on the average, produce eight gallons of appl* juice, but them ia a waste of about 15 per cent m the fermentation process to be .allowed for, us the oasks should be oonatantly kept filled, not with water, but apple juice, while the waste by the work ing of the l'qaor is going on. Mr Jarrett has noticed a very great difference m thtt cider produced f r -m the various sorts of apples sent him by parries to work up, even though not older apples, aome being far superior to others. Quite a number of orchardistft are haviug cider made for them, seuding the apples and having the casks of older returned m a few weeks ready made — the small charge of 4d per gallon saving a vast amount of trouble, especially to the inexperienced, (correspondent " Auokland Herald.")