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to guard against which, altogether, requires a degree of qualification that 

 science without experience will probably never be able to give. 



Tt will be seen from the above that the sugar may be omitted, and the 

 sulphite of lime added directly to the apple juice, as it flows from the press, 

 or at a period a little later when fermentation has improved its taste ; but 

 at the best it will produce a beverage inferior to that in which more vinous 

 fermentation is permitted, and extended through a longer period. It will 

 resemble cider that has been boiled to coagulate the albuminous matters, 

 or filtered through sand, to separate them. It will be comparatively insipid. 



More sulphite of lime will be required if the sugar be withheld. For- 

 tunately, as the sulphite is rendered soluble only in the presence of acid, an 

 excess will do no harm. 



E. N. HORSFORD, 



Prof. Hort. Chemistry to the Mass. Hort. Soc. 

 Cambridge, November 19, 1858. 



