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hogsheads of cider, without being laid so thick as to 

 endanger their rotting, in a draft of air, through a door 

 at each end of the loft : an opening in the floor over 

 the hopper will permit the passage of the apples to 

 the mill. The operation of cider making, may thus 

 be conducted without interruption from the weather, 

 and be continued with the aid of a close stove and 

 glazed windows, through the severity of our early 

 winters, when it would be impracticable to conduct it 

 in the open air. 



A most valuable addition to the cider house, but 

 rarely adopted, is a cellar under the building to con- 

 tain the cider casks ; communicating by a hose with 

 the press, for the conveyance of the cider without labour 

 or waste in such a building, the floor of the cider 

 room must be of plank, on strong joists and sleepers, 

 resting on brick pillars in the cellar, to support the 

 weight of the mill, press and horse. With glazed 

 windows, such a cellar may be preserved in a proper 

 temperature in winter, and by the aid of shutters may 

 be kept cool in the hottest summer weather, for the 

 preservation of cider in caskp, through the season. 



The construction of cider works varies much in the 

 several districts of this state the common form of the 

 mill is with two nuts standing perpendicularly, with 

 a long sweep for the hqrse, fixed to the axis of 



