Christmas, \vhich is called a barrel, at five 

 dollars, which is one pound seventeen 

 shillings and six pence. But, to make this 

 barrel, it would require at least ten barrels 

 to preserve one to this time ; which will 

 reduce the price to three shillings and 

 nine pence per barrel. Then the sorting 

 will be six pence for two bushels and 

 a half, which leaves one shilling and three 

 pence halfpenny the bushel, or not quite 

 four pence a peck. Now to cure them 

 properly in that country, the process is this 

 * First pick them, and put them in a cham- 

 ber, letting them lie there for some time to 

 sweat ; then put them in a barrel, and place 

 them in a cellar, or they will freeze in any 

 other situation,, But the price in general is 

 three dollars and a half a barrel ; and when 

 that is the case, there would be a loss on 

 them. This shews that the making of 

 cyder is a better business, which sells at 

 two dollars the barrel of thirty gallons. 

 Although the apples are said to be fine, great 

 numbers are decayed at the core, 



