The Highland, Mich. Pickle Industry

ISighland station on the Flint & l'ere Marquette ïtailroad, is furnishing the vinegar and pickles for a large number of non-producers. Sume years 130 J. R. Crouse, formerly of Ilartland, erected a somewhat extensivo eider mili afc Ilighiand wherehe manufaClured different grades of eider and a pure article of eider vinegar. The demaads for his productions were so great that he was indueed to associate with him other parties and organizo a flrmunder the name of Crouse, Tremaine & Co. The inanufactured eider and white wine vinegar and prepared olftrifled and reflned eid#, on a more extensive scale, are now turning out at the rate of one carload of vinegar per day, manufactured from corn, rye and oats by the vaporizing process, the fermented and distilled mash running through twenty-four large vaporizing tanks which are nearly ülled with beecli shaviags. After passing through these twentyfour vaporizing tauk3 the vinegar is ready for the barrels and shipment. The slop from the process is suffieient to feed 250 head of swine or 100 head of cattle. In connection with their vinegar works they have erected large buildings and supplied them with the neeessary apparatus for the salting and pickling of cucurnbers, onions, etc, and the manufacture of chow chow. They have now planted to cucumbers of their own land eighty acres, and contracted with other 170 acres, all of which, it is estirnated will produce eighty bushels of three-and-a-halfand f our inch pickles per acre, and pay the ownera of the land, above a?l expenses, $41 per acre at forty cents per bushel. lf the crop3 f rom the whole 250 acres do well they will produce cucumbers suflicient for 2,000 barrels of pickles. To accommodate their growing trade they are at present making extensivo additions to their works. They manufacture their own barrels for the vinegar and pickles, and it is thought their continued worka will give employment to about forty men the majority of the season, besidea the largenumber employed in the season at picking.