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5 Beverly Conners pulls a : handle. With each tug, a t batch of chewed up mash i falls onto the press located t directly beneath the hammer ■ mill, sending splatters 12 feet ■ or more across the room. This explains why Beverly : wears a plastic apron gloves 1 and straw hat. In between aach of the six plops of apple nash, she sends a piece of iacron cloth whipping across the wooden slats and removable frame of the press with practiced skill. Each time she pulls away the frame and sets it back on top with another dacron square to catch a new batch of mashed apple, the tower climbs higher until it almost touches the bottom of the chute.
Once six slatted layers are in place, each separated by dacron folded into a square bag, the press squeezes the apple mash until cider runs through the cloth like water through a sieve. The juice flows from the vat through plastic hose that leads to a stainless steel tank in a small side room if its Elmer’s apples or to waiting plastic barrels ready to be loaded back on the trucks if its a crstom job.
Meanwhile, the squeezed
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