In 1913, Joseph Brocard of Piscataway, N.J., took a leap of faith and paid $170 for a large hydraulic apple cider mill, which he purchased from the Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Company in Mount Gilead, Ohio.
One hundred years later it still squeezes apples into cider – hundreds of gallons of it.
Joe Brocard of Brocard’s Antique Apple Orchard at 28095 Santiam Highway, west of Sweet Home, says the giant press his grandfather purchased has held…